Technologies and Concepts - AWS Certification

Technologies and Concepts

The following list contains technologies and concepts that might appear on the exam. This list is non-exhaustive and is subject to change. The order and placement of the items in this list is no indication of their relative weight or importance on the exam:

  • Analytics

  • Application integration

  • Compute

  • Containers

  • Cost and capacity management

  • Database

  • Developer tools

  • Management and governance

  • Networking and content delivery

  • Security, identity, and compliance

  • Storage

  • Mentions of AWS services on the exam

  • AWS Certification is reducing the reading load on this exam by using official short names for well-known AWS service names that contain abbreviations or parenthetical information. For example, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) appears on the exam as Amazon SNS.

  • The Help feature in the exam (available for every question) contains the list of the short AWS service names and their corresponding full names.

  • You can consult AWS Service Names on the AWS Certification website for the list of services that appear as their short names on the exam. Any services that are on the list but that are out of scope for the exam will not appear on the exam.

  • Note: Not every abbreviation is fully spelled out on the exam or available in the Help feature. The official full name for some AWS services includes an abbreviation that is never expanded (for example, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EMR). The exam also might contain other abbreviations that the target audience is expected to know.