SKILL BENCHMARK
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional 2022: Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions Competency (Intermediate Level)
- 20m
- 20 questions
The Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions Competency (Intermediate Level) benchmark measures your ability to manage virtual machine (VM) hibernation mode, modify instance types to support workloads, configure EC2 Auto Scaling, and enable business continuity using various AWS disaster recovery and high availability solutions. You will be evaluated on your skills in improving AWS service performance, security, and efficiency through continuous monitoring, as well as determining the best migration approach for getting services and data into the AWS Cloud. Learners who score high on this benchmark demonstrate that they have the skills to determine a strategy to improve overall operational excellence, security, reliability, and performance.
Topics covered
- configure a snow family job
- configure AWS CloudTrail for AWS auditing
- configure Glacier for data archiving
- create an EC2 launch configuration auto scaling group
- create an Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume snapshot, recreate a volume from the snapshot, and copy it to an alternate region
- deploy a target group and a network load balancer
- determined how and when to use the AWS Migration Hub
- discover on-premises services as potential migration candidates
- discuss the seven common migration strategies including wave planning as well as AWS solutions including DataSync
- migrate an on-premises server to AWS
- monitor EC2 instance performance
- outline how to apply defense-in-depth, least privilege, and AWS security services such as AWS Shield
- recall when to use AWS Snow Family options for large data transfers
- use CloudWatch to monitor various AWS services
- use PowerShell to hibernate an EC2 instance for quick future resumption
- use the CLI to change the EC2 instance type
- use the CLI to hibernate an EC2 instance for quick future resumption
- use the console to hibernate an Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance for quick future resumption
- use the GUI to change the EC2 instance type to accommodate a workload
- use Trusted Advisor recommendations to optimize security, performance, availability, and cost for AWS services
