Exam Guide

Pass marks: 720/1000

Number of questions: 65

Time: 130 minutes

Response types:

Multiple choice: Has one correct response and three incorrect responses (distractors)
Multiple response: Has two or more correct responses out of five or more response options

Content outline

Domain	% of exam
Design Resilient Architectures	30%
Design High-Performing Architectures	28%
Design Secure Applications and Architectures	24%
Design Cost-Optimised Architectures	18%

24 Regions, 77 Availability Zones (Jun 2021)

Region: Physical Location (London, Ireland, Sydney)

A region is more than 3 AZ

AZ: Data Center, a building filled with servers

One or more discrete data centers — each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity — housed in separate facilities

An AZ may be several data centers, comprising of multiple AZ

Edge Locations: Endpoints for AWS used for caching content. Typically consists of CloudFront, Amazon’s CDN.

Many more EL than regions