Panduan Persiapan Ujian
Rangkuman strategi, ruang lingkup materi, dan tips praktis untuk menaklukkan ujian AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03).
Ruang Lingkup Ujian
30%
Design Secure Architectures
26%
Design Resilient Architectures
24%
Design High-Performing Architectures
20%
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
⏱️ Durasi: ~130 menit
📝 Jumlah Soal: 65 soal
🎯 Fokus Utama: Merancang solusi yang aman, tahan gangguan (resilient), berkinerja tinggi, dan efisien secara biaya.
Materi Utama (Per Domain)
1. Design Secure Architectures
- Identity & Access: AWS IAM (Users, Groups, Roles, Policies), cross-account access, federated access.
- Networking Security: VPC, subnets (public vs private), NAT, Security Groups, Network ACLs.
- Data Protection: Enkripsi at-rest & in-transit, AWS KMS, key management, certificate management (ACM).
- Governance: Shared responsibility model, multi-account strategies (Organizations), SCPs, CloudTrail, GuardDuty.
2. Design Resilient Architectures
- Distributed Architecture: Availability Zones, Regions, fail-over, multi-AZ, multi-region.
- Scalability & Decoupling: Auto Scaling (EC2), Serverless (Lambda), SQS, SNS.
- Disaster Recovery: RTO/RPO, backup strategies (pilot light, warm standby), data durability.
- Modern App Design: Containers (EKS/ECS) vs Lambda vs Fargate.
3. Design High-Performing Architectures
- Compute: Memilih instance types yang tepat (T3, C5, R5, dll), serverless, hybrid.
- Storage: Object (S3) vs Block (EBS) vs File (EFS) – use cases & performance tiers.
- Database: RDS/Aurora vs DynamoDB vs Caching (ElastiCache) vs Read Replicas.
- Networking: CDN (CloudFront), Global Accelerator, edge services.
4. Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
- Storage Costs: S3 Lifecycle policies, tiering (Intelligent-Tiering, Glacier), cold archive.
- Compute Costs: Spot Instances, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, right-sizing.
- Database Costs: Pemilihan engine yang tepat, serverless options, read replicas strategy.
- Data Transfer: NAT Gateway costs, cross-region/zone transfer, VPC Endpoints.
Strategi Persiapan & Tips
🛠️ Langkah Persiapan
- 1. Baca Panduan Resmi: Pahami task statements di Exam Guide SAA-C03.
- 2. Hands-on Practice: Wajib coba layanan utama (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM) di akun trial.
- 3. Latihan Soal: Gunakan mock test untuk membiasakan diri dengan pola soal cerita.
- 4. Review Whitepapers: Fokus pada Well-Architected Framework.
🧠 Mindset Saat Ujian
- ✓ Cari keyword di soal: "cost-effective", "highly available", "least overhead".
- ✓ Waspada distraktor: Jawaban yang teknisnya benar tapi tidak menjawab kebutuhan utama soal.
- ✓ Pikirkan trade-off: Biasanya ada kompromi antara biaya vs performa vs durabilitas.