My 4-Step Study Plan for Passing the AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
As a web engineer doing full-stack work, I’ve spent years inside the AWS ecosystem. EC2, DynamoDB, Redis, Lambda, API Gateway, and S3 are part of my daily toolkit. I was comfortable building and deploying on them, but I also knew there was a lot of AWS I’d never touched and a lot of architectural reasoning I’d never had to do explicitly. So this year I set myself a goal at work: pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. I wanted to go deeper on the services I only knew at the surface and get better at designing whole systems rather than wiring up the parts I already knew. I passed the SAA-C03 on my first attempt with a score of 903/1000, and this is the plan that got me there over about nine months. ...