Episode 1: Designing Secure Architectures 

In the first episode, you’ll meet your hosts and jump into learning to design secure architectures. This domain covers knowledge areas including access controls and management across multiple accounts and AWS global infrastructure, and skill areas like determining network segmentation strategies, integrating AWS services to secure applications, aligning AWS technologies to meet compliance requirements. The domain topics include:

• Design secure access to AWS resources
• Design secure workloads and applications
• Determine appropriate data security controls

Episode 2: Designing Resilient Architectures 

As a solutions architect, you’ll need a strong understanding of API creation and management, using edge accelerators appropriately, and disaster recover strategies to meet demand for secure, resilient architectures. In today's episode, you’ll learn all this plus grow your skills in areas like determining scaling strategies for components used in an architecture design. The domain topics for this episode include: 

• Design scalable and loosely coupled architectures
• Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures

Episode 3: Designing High-Performing Architectures

Now that we’ve covered designing resilient architectures, it’s time to turn to high-performing architectures. Today’s episode will cover knowledge and skill areas including hybrid storage solutions to meet business requirements, distributed computing concepts supported by AWS global infrastructure and edge services, and determining scalable storage services and configurations that meet performance demands. Today’s domain topics include: 

• Determine high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions
• Design high-performing and elastic compute solutions
• Determine high-performing database solutions
• Determine high-performing and/or scalable network architectures
• Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions

Episode 4: Designing Cost-Optimized Architectures

So far, we’ve covered secure, resilient, and high-performing architectures, but what about cost? Join us this week to learn about architecting for cost optimization. This episode will cover knowledge and skill areas including AWS cost management tools with appropriate use cases, optimization of compute utilization, and determining cost-effective AWS compute services with appropriate use cases. The domain topics include: 

• Design cost-optimized storage solutions
• Design cost-optimized compute solutions
• Design cost-optimized database solutions
• Design cost-optimized network architectures

Episode 5: Review Time

In this episode, we’ll review essential concepts and cover some of the most frequently asked questions throughout the series. Watch live on-demand.

Episode 6: Practice Makes Perfect

For our season finale we are bring in everyone’s favorite: practice questions! Join us and test your knowledge with practice questions that will help you see how much you’ve learned. We’ll also cover questions about the exam itself and how else you can prepare for success.

Learn about additional resources to help you prepare and gauge your exam readiness so you are set for exam day.