The Amazon Web Services, AWS Certified Solutions Architect is among the most valuable and highly sought after cloud computing certifications in the world today. The Associate examination is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role and have one or more years of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS. The examination is comprised of 65 questions; either multiple choice or multiple response, and you have 130 minutes to complete the exam.