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Management and Governance

Core

AWS Trusted Advisor

Explicit security-check remediation plus operational optimization evidence.

Key points

  • Trusted Advisor supplies account checks that can support security remediation and measured operational optimization.

Best-known use cases

  • D1.1, D1.2, and D3.1: evaluate a named check against workload evidence before acting on its recommendation.

What candidates often confuse it with

  • Trusted Advisor provides checks; Compute Optimizer focuses on utilization-based recommendations and Config evaluates declared configuration.

Key takeaway

Validate the check, affected resource, and operational tradeoff instead of applying broad changes from a category label.

Related services

  • AWS Auto Scaling
  • AWS CDK
  • AWS CloudFormation

Relevant exam tasks

  • D1.1 — Task 1.1: Implement metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services.
  • 1.1.1 — Use AWS services (for example, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus) to configure monitoring and logging for workloads (for example, serverless, compute, AI).
  • D1.2 — Task 1.2: Identify and remediate issues by using monitoring and availability metrics.
  • 1.2.1 — Analyze performance metrics and automate remediation strategies by using AWS services and functionality (for example, CloudWatch, Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, CloudTrail, Kiro, AWS DevOps Agent).
  • D3.1 — Task 3.1: Provision and maintain cloud resources.
  • 3.1.1 — Create and manage AMIs and container images (for example, EC2 Image Builder).

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SOA-C03 at a glance

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Associate
Duration
130 minutes
Questions
65 total; 50 scored and 15 unidentified unscored
Formats
Multiple choice and multiple response
Scoring
100–1,000 scaled score; 720 minimum passing score

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