Domain 2: Design for New Solutions

This domain constitutes 29% of the exam and focuses on designing architectures from scratch to meet specific business requirements.

Key Areas

• 2.1 Deployment Strategy: IaC, CI/CD, and deployment patterns.
• 2.2 Business Continuity: Multi-AZ/Regional architectures and replication.
• 2.3 Security Controls: Application security and access management.
• 2.4 Reliability Requirements: Decoupling and scaling.
• 2.5 Performance Objectives: Compute selection and caching.
• 2.6 Cost Optimization Strategy: Data transfer and storage tiering.