Episode 35: AWS SAA-C03 Compute & Containers - Revision + 13 Exam Questions | TechTalkWithBalu
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🎁 Free SAA-C03 cheat sheet for this series - link at the bottom.
Topic challenge #5, segmented format! Quick revision, then 13 compute questions split into 3 themed blocks - so it flows like a guided session, not a question dump.
🆕 THE FORMAT
🧠 Tight intro (no long front-loaded lecture)
📦 3 themed blocks with teaching beats between them:
1️⃣ EC2 Fundamentals (instances & placement)
2️⃣ Scaling & Cost (Auto Scaling & purchasing)
3️⃣ Serverless & Containers (Lambda, ECS/EKS/Fargate)
⏱️ A pause after each question to lock in YOUR answer
✅ The answer + WHY it's right
❌ WHY each wrong option is wrong
Because on the real exam, eliminating the plausible-but-wrong options is the whole game.
🎯 THE PAYOFF
By the end you'll have the 4 compute decisions the exam leans on most locked in - the ones that quietly decide a handful of marks on test day.
📋 THE 13 QUESTIONS TEST
BLOCK 1 - EC2 Fundamentals:
• Cluster placement group (lowest-latency HPC)
• Memory-optimized instances (in-memory cache)
• On-Demand Capacity Reservations (guaranteed AZ capacity)
• Accelerated computing (GPU for ML)
BLOCK 2 - Scaling & Cost:
• Scheduled scaling (predictable daily peak)
• Reserved/Savings Plans (steady 3-year workload)
• Spot Instances (interruptible batch)
• Target tracking scaling (hold CPU at 50%)
• Mixed instances policy (blend On-Demand + Spot)
BLOCK 3 - Serverless & Containers:
• Fargate (containers, no instance management)
• Lambda (event-driven function)
• EKS (when you specifically need Kubernetes)
• ECR (Docker image registry)
💡 THE 4 COMPUTE DECISIONS DRILLED
1. Instance family: match the bottleneck (memory/compute/GPU)
2. Purchasing: On-Demand / Reserved / Spot / Capacity Reservation
3. Scaling: scheduled (clock) vs target tracking (metric) vs mixed
4. Compute model: Lambda / Fargate / ECS / EKS / ECR
Spot which group the question is testing, and the answer falls out.
🎓 SCORING
Got 9+ right (~70%)? Your compute knowledge is in good shape. Missed some? Compute runs through a huge share of the exam - now you know where to focus.
🗣️ The segmented format is helping people stay to the end - did the blocks work for you? Leave a comment!
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