AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Exam Differences
2018 vs. 2020
AWS have released an update on their most popular and wide-ranging certification course.
The software architect exam at associate level SAA-C01 has been retired and SAA-C02 takes its place.
October 2020 Update: I passed!
Commenters with experience of the two will maintain that as long as you keep to the fundamentals of the 5 pillars of the well-architected framework, the two exams have mostly the same content.
It pays to be aware of the new products AWS offer. We know that being able to leverage natively provided technologies from a cloud provider will often present efficiency gains in the Software Development Lifecycle.
In the SAA-C02 exam, the new technologies we should be aware of:
Name | |||
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AWS Global Accelerator | |||
Elastic Fabric Adapter | |||
Elastic Network Adapter | |||
AWS Parallel Cluster | |||
Amazon FSx | |||
AWS DataSync | |||
AWS Directory Service | |||
High Performance Computing | |||
Aurora Serverless |