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ASSESSMENT BLUEPRINT CREATION

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Prioritize list of assessments for development
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Write learning objectives

Create topic titles
Create domain titles
Creating weighting of domains (Distribute 200 questions across domains)

Review learning objective

Review topic titles
Review domain title
Review question distribution

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Choose answer type (multiple select, multiple choice)
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Select topic tag
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Review answer choices
Review answer explanations
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100 QUESTIONS CHECK / CALIBRATION

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 Assignment Info
Assessment Category IT Certification
Assessment Type Multiple Choice

Related IT Certification AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design

Related IT Certification Exam
Blueprint

Complete 200 sample questions for the related

IT Certification (above) that meet the
Assignment description requirements (below)

Requirements
Item description Number of items

[Provided] 3-7 labels for the domain areas

Domains tested in the exam. 3-7

[Provided] A percentage, which represents

the amount of content that should cover that
Domain weighting domain in the assessment. 1 per domain
[Provided] Sentences that define the ability
that the assessment question is designed to
Learning objectives measure. TBD

Question stems A stem that identifies the question or problem 200

Indicate the question type: Multiple Choice or
Multiple Select. Multiple choice will have one
correct answer only. Multiple select will have
Question type two or more correct answers. 1 per question

One (or more) possible answers that contain a

key that is the best answer to the question,
and a number of distractors that are plausible
Answer choices but incorrect answers to the question 4-6 per question
A written explanation for why the answer
choice is or is not the correct answer (2+
Answer explanations sentences required). 1 per answer choice
A numerical value (1-6), which indicates the
correct answer. If multiple answer options are
Correct response correct, use a comma-separated list 1 per question
Domain labeling The associated domain label 1 per question
Topic Labeling [Provided] At least one primary Topic label 1 per question
Bloom's Taxonomy labeling The associated Bloom's Taxonomy label 1 per question
ents
Type Related Deliverable

Defined Development Domain /

Knowledge defining Exam Blueprint

Defined Development Domain /

Knowledge defining Exam Blueprint

Defined Development Domain /

Knowledge defining Exam Blueprint

Question and answer writing Adaptive Assessment

Question and answer writing Adaptive Assessment

Question and answer writing Adaptive Assessment

Question and answer writing Adaptive Assessment

Question and answer writing Adaptive Assessment

Metadata Adaptive Assessment
Metadata Adaptive Assessment
Metadata Adaptive Assessment
Resource Link
Exam Blueprint
Related course
Learning Objective & Bloom's Taxonomy guidelines
Assessment Question Guidelines
Description
domains and weighting of those domains, as well as asociated
learning objectives for each domain.
A course that
Guidelines teacheslearning
for writing contentobjectives
related to and
the assessment
understanding the
labels used for Bloom's Taxonomy metadata tagging
An assessment style guide, which includes guidelines for the
question writer to produce MCQs
Domain Domain weighting Number of questions
Design Resilient Architectures 30% 60
Design High-Performing Architectures 28% 56
Design Secure Applications and Architectures 24% 48
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures 18% 36
SAMPLE TOPICS
Cloud Analytics
Cloud Load Balancing
Cloud Security
Command Line
Compliance (IT)
Data Migration
Disaster Recovery
Encryption
Identity Access Management
Identity Security
Integration Services
Internal Auditing
Log Management (LM)
Microservices
Network Monitoring
Platform as a service (PaaS)
Reference Architecture
Scalability
Serverless Computing
Test Taking Skills
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
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Sample from AWS Certified Associate Architect - Associate

Question Question Type (mul

Answer Option 1

A CIO requires that access to confidential reports stored on Amazon S3 is

logged. The CIO further requires that any modifications to the log files are
also recorded. How can a solutions architect meet these requirements? multiple-choice Enable Access Loggi
A company is migrating an on-premises, in-memory database to AWS. The
database uses replication for high availability. Which database would be a
suitable alternative on the AWS cloud? multiple-choice Amazon Aurora My

A company has a large volume of data in Amazon S3 and requires a method

of analyzing the data directly using SQL queries. The solution should be
serverless and should not require complex processes to extract, transform,
and load the data (ETL). Which AWS service meets these requirements? multiple-choice Amazon Kinesis
A company has experienced malicious traffic from some suspicious IP
addresses. The security team discovered the requests are from different IP
addresses under the same CIDR range.
What should a solutions architect recommend to the team?
multiple-choice Add a rule in the i

A company has several AWS accounts in AWS Organizations. The security

architects require that specific actions are limited across all company
accounts. The configuration for this restriction must be maintained centrally.
How can a solutions architect meet the security architect’s requirements? multiple-choice Create a Web ACL to
A company is deploying a critical database on Amazon RDS and need to
understand what events may cause the database to be taken offline during a
maintenance window. Which events may cause an outage? multiple-choice DB engine version

A company is deploying a reporting tool that will run nightly reporting jobs 5
days a week. The reporting jobs will take 4 hours to complete and cannot be
interrupted. The reporting system will run for a minimum of one year.
Which type of Amazon EC2 instances should be used to reduce the cost of
the system? multiple-choice Spot Instances
A company is deploying an Amazon RDS read replica in a separate Region in
another country to improve performance for local queries. The main
database is not encrypted. However, any data that leaves the country must
be encrypted at rest. Which two steps are required to encrypt the read
replica? (Select TWO.) multi-select Encrypt the Read Re
A company is developing a data lake that uses Amazon S3. The data will be
analyzed using SQL queries and the solution must be fully serverless. Which
service should the solutions architect choose for running SQL queries on the
dataset? multiple-choice Amazon RedShift S
Answer Option 2 Answer Option 3 Answer Option 4 Answer Option 5 Answer Option 6 Correct Response

Enable Server AccesCreate an AWS Cloud

Create an AWS CloudTrail trail that logs read and write dat 4

Amazon RDS Postg Amazon ElastiCacheAmazon ElastiCache for Memcached 3

Amazon Athena AWS Data Pipeline AWS Glue 2

Add a rule in the o Add a deny rule in Add a deny rule in the outbound table of the network ACL 3

Create an IAM policCreate cross-accoun

Create a service control policy in the root organizational u 4

Modify backup win Auto minor versionIncrease allocated storage 1

On-Demand InstanStandard Reserved Scheduled Reserved Instances 4

Encrypt the Read ReEnable encryption Enable the encryptiCreate a secure AWS VPN to ensure the 2,3

Amazon Athena Amazon ElasticsearAmazon Kinesis 2

Explanation for A Explanation for A Explanation for A Explanation for A Explanation for A Explanation for A

An Amazon Applicati
Server access logginAWS CloudTrail shoAWS CloudTrail can be used for auditing API activity. Data

Amazon Aurora is nAmazon RDS is not Amazon ElastiCacheAmazon ElastiCache Memcached does not support data repli

Amazon Kinesis is uAmazon Athena is an

AWS Data Pipeline iAWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (

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This change does reThis change does no

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This change does not result in an outage.

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This would be muchThe workload only rScheduled Reserved Instances (Scheduled Instances) enable you to purchase

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Amazon Elasticsearc
Amazon Kinesis is used for ingesting, processing, and analyzing real time str
 Bloom's Taxonomy
Domain Tag Topic Tag Additional Topic Tag

Understand Secure applicationsInternal Auditing

Remember High performing arAWS Databases

Understand Resilient architectuAmazon Athena

Understand Secure applicationsCloud Security

ontrol over the maximum availabSecure applications and architectures

Resilient architectuAWS Databases

stances) enable you to purchase Cost-optimized

cap archAmazon EC2

sary as replication will be secur High performing arAWS Databases

ing, and analyzing real time str High performing arAmazon Athena