AWS Solutions Architect Associate 2017- ACloud Guru course

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

----- Interested Reads------
+ Interesting Read (Serverless Architecture of Acloud guru)
  https://read.acloud.guru/serverless-the-future-of-software-architecture-d4473ffed864
  
----- Getting Started-------
+ Requirements 
  + AWS Free Tier Account
  + PC with putty and putty keygen/ Mac
  + Optional
    + IoS/ Android App $20
    + Free Alexa Skill with 60 questions for each certification
    + Free course on how to code Alexa
    + Reddit AWS: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonWebServices/
    + Acloud guru youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/acloudguru
    
----- Exam Blueprint-------
  
----- Services------- (* important - overview)
+ AWS Global Infrastructure
+ Compute
  *+ EC2
  -+ ECS
  
+ Network & CDN
  + Route 53
  *+ VPC (peering)
  + Cloud Front
  + Direct Connect
  
+ Databases
  + RDS
  + DynamoDB
  + RedShift
  + Elasticcache
  + Aurora
  
+ Storage
  *+ S3
  *+ EBS- Elastic Block Store
  + Glacier
  + Storage Gateway
  
+ Security & Identity
  + IAM
  Inspector
  Certificate Manager
  Directory Service
  WAF & Shield
  Compliance Reports
  
+ Management tools
  CloudWatch
  CloudFormation
  CloudTrail
  Config
  OpsWorks
  Service Catalog
  Trusted Advisor
  Managed Services
  
+ Desktop & App Streaming
  WorkSpaces
  AppStream 2.0
  
+ Messaging
  Simple Queue Service
  Simple Notification Service
  SES

+ Kinesis
+ API Gateway
+ Trusted Advisor, Billing

-+ Opsowork
-+ Codecommit
-+ FIFO SQS
-+ STS
  
------To-Do--------
+ Went thru videos on acloud once

+ AWS Solutions Architect Official Study guide

+ FAQs of EC2, S3, SQS, VPC etc.

+ Architect, Security, S3, EC2, EBS whitepapers

+ Topic cheat sheets on http://jayendrapatil.com

+ Practice free labs on Qwiklabs/ Hands on AWS

+ Complete the mini test or final test on acloud. I recommend going thru the tests couple of days ahead of actual test.  

+ Go thru official sample questions from AWS