How I passed AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-solutions-architect-associate/) is an AWS official certificate for architects to validate their knowledge about AWS.

Because I got a few inquiries for what I did to be certified from basically zero knowledge, I would like to share it in this post.

Study Materials

Mostly, I studied it on Udemy. Here are the courses:

  1. AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2020 https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate/
  2. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Practice Exams https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-amazon-practice-exams-saa-c02/
The first one is recommended if you are a beginner like me. The lab parts are pretty interesting (my favorite is AWS Snowball).
The second one is recommended for everyone. It is probably around 20% more difficult than the actual exam. It is more cost efficient than the AWS official practice test, in my opinion.
I also read a book in Japanese, mainly because I wanted to make sure that I understand the concepts, partially because I wanted to update the vocabularies just in case.

Time Spent

Around 65 hours in total.

  • Udemy course: 30 h
  • Udemy practice test: 15h
  • Book: 15 h
  • etc: 5h


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