AWS Certified Security Specialty Exam Coverage

The AWS Certified Security Specialty Exam has been designed to assess and validate the ability of the candidate across a number of AWS security domains to demonstrate their knowledge, awareness, understanding, and capability in securing AWS architecture, services, resources, and data.

This initial chapter will explain in detail the requirements that you need in order to pass the exam, and highlight the domains and topics that will be assessed. It is important to understand these requirements before progressing through the rest of this book to ensure that you are aware of what you will be tested on. This will allow you to determine where your strengths and weaknesses lie, thereby allowing you to spend more time on those areas. 

This chapter will take you through the following topics:

• Aim of the certification
• Intended audience
• Domains accessed 
• Exam details