Catapult, a Quisitive company, is a Microsoft-focused solutions and services firm that specializes in imagining, building and sustaining digital transformation and cloud-based solutions that people love to use. Catapult has consistently been recognized as a leading Microsoft Partner with 10 Advanced Specializations and 17 Microsoft competencies. Recent accolades include 2020 MSUS Partner Award Winner Azure – DevOps, Top Microsoft 365 Security Partner for FY20, and being named a finalist of the Data Analytics 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. Catapult has offices nationwide.
Percent of Exam 10% Domain Focus Areas Plan and execute for applications migrations Demonstrate ability to design hybrid cloud architectures AWS Services VMWare Integration Storage Gateway Data Pipeline Network Migration EC2 AWS Documentation A Practical Guide to Cloud Migration https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/the-path-to-the-cloud-dec2015.pdf Migration Best Practices – RDBMS to DynamoDB https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/migration-best-practices-rdbms-to-dynamodb.pdf Strategies for Migrating Oracle Database…
Percent of Exam 15% Domain Focus Areas Demonstrate the ability to design a loosely coupled system Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate front-end scaling architecture Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate middle-tier scaling architecture Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate data storage scaling architecture Determine trade-offs between vertical and horizontal scaling …
Percent of Exam 20% Domain Focus Areas Design information security management systems and compliance controls Design security controls with the AWS shared responsibility model and global infrastructure Design identity and access management controls Design protection of Data at Rest controls Design protection of Data in Flight and Network Perimeter controls AWS Services IAM STS…
Percent of Exam 10% Domain Focus Areas Demonstrate ability to design and implement networking features of AWS Demonstrate ability to design and implement connectivity features of AWS AWS Services VPC NAT DirectConnect HPC ELB AWS Documentation Amazon VPC Network Connectivity Options https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-amazon-vpc-connectivity-options.pdf VPC FAQ https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/faqs/ DirectConnect FAQ https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/faqs/ Route 53 FAQ https://aws.amazon.com/route53/faqs/ …
Percent of Exam 15% Domain Focus Areas Demonstrate ability to make architectural trade off decisions involving storage options Demonstrate ability to make architectural trade off decisions involving database options Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate data storage architecture Determine use of synchronous versus asynchronous replication AWS Services S3 Glacier Database EBS AWS Documentation…
Percent of Exam 10% Domain Focus Areas Ability to manage the lifecycle of an application on AWS Demonstrate ability to implement the right architecture for development, testing, and staging environments Position and select most appropriate AWS deployment mechanism based on scenario AWS Services CloudFormation Elastic Beanstalk OpsWorks AWS Documentation Overview of Deployment Options…
Percent of Exam 5% It may only count for 5%, but it seemed like every question had a cost consideration in the solution. Domain Focus Areas Demonstrate ability to make architectural decisions that minimize and optimize infrastructure cost Apply the appropriate AWS account and billing set-up options based on scenario Ability to compare and contrast…
Percent of Exam 15% Domain Focus Areas Demonstrate ability to architect the appropriate level of availability based on stakeholder requirements Demonstrate ability to implement DR for systems based on RPO and RTO Determine appropriate use of multi-Availability Zones vs. multi-Region architectures Demonstrate ability to implement self-healing capabilities Content may include the following: High Availability vs. Fault…
Hybrid ArchitectureThe Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification is the Professional level cert beyond the CSA Associate exam. AWS currently offers two Pro level certs – Architect and DevOps – and these are the highest certification levels at this time. I decided to pursue the CSA Pro cert to set myself apart from…
In CRM, I have a field that allows the user to select from a set of Picklist values. One of the values is no longer active. I did not want to delete the Picklist value and lose historical data, but I did not want users to be able to select that value for new Opportunities. …
