SKILL BENCHMARK
AWS Associate Solutions Architect 2022: Design Secure Architectures (Intermediate Level)
- 20m
- 20 questions
The AWS Design Secure Architectures Competency benchmark evaluates your ability to design a multi-tier architecture solution. You will be measured on your skills in designing decoupling mechanisms using AWS services and choosing appropriate resilient storage. A learner who scores high on this benchmark demonstrates that they have the skills to design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures.
Topics covered
- Add users and groups to AWS Managed Active Directory (AD)
- Centrally manage patches, images, and software inventory using AWS Systems Manager
- Configure a network ACL
- Configure a security group
- Configure encryption key lifecycle settings
- Configure the AWS user password policy
- Enable Amazon GuardDuty threat detection and examine sample findings
- Identify common threats such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and injection attacks
- Identify the six pillars of a well-architected framework
- Locate documentation verifying AWS compliance with various standards
- Manage AWS Organizations
- Manage IAM users
- Outline how cryptography serves to protect AWS services and data
- Outline the use of AWS data centers, regions, and availability zones
- Recall how a web application firewall can help mitigate common web application attacks
- Recognize how AWS can use single sign-on (SSO), centralized federated authentication, and the AWS Security Token Service
- recognize when to use Lambda, Amazon Cognito, API Gateway, Simple Queue Service (SQS), and distributed computing
- Recognize where IT service and data responsibility lies for specific AWS services
- Use the console to create an AWS Key Management Service (KMS) key
- Use the Secrets Manager console to examine how app code can retrieve centrally stored secrets
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