SAP-C02 · Free study guideSAP-C03 opens Oct 27

AWS Certified Solutions Architect · Professional

Advanced architecture across many accounts and teams: long scenarios where several answers work and you pick the best. AWS is moving to SAP-C03; the last day for SAP-C02 is November 16, 2026.

Questions: 75 (65 scored)
Time: 180 minutes
Passing score: 750 / 1000
Level: Professional

What the exam covers

Domains and key topics

Domain 126% of the exam

Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity

Network connectivity at scale: Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, PrivateLink
Security controls across accounts: SCPs, IAM Identity Center, delegated admin
Multi-account design with AWS Organizations and Control Tower
Cost visibility across an organization

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Domain 229% of the exam

Design for New Solutions

Deployment strategies for new workloads
Business continuity: backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby, active-active
Security, reliability and performance from the requirements
Choosing a cost-optimized design

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Domain 325% of the exam

Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

Operational excellence: automation and observability
Improving security of existing workloads
Improving performance and reliability
Finding cost savings: right-sizing, purchase options, storage tiers

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Domain 420% of the exam

Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization

Choosing what to migrate: portfolio discovery
Migration strategies, the 7 Rs: rehost, replatform, refactor and more
Migration tools: Application Migration Service, DMS, DataSync, Snow Family
Modernizing: containers, serverless, managed databases

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Know these well

Key AWS services

AWS Organizations & Control Tower

Multi-account structure and guardrails.

AWS Transit Gateway

Hub for VPC and on-premises connectivity.

AWS Direct Connect & Site-to-Site VPN

Hybrid connectivity.

AWS IAM Identity Center

Single sign-on across accounts.

Amazon Route 53

Routing policies for failover and latency.

Amazon Aurora & DynamoDB global tables

Databases that span Regions.

AWS Application Migration Service

Lift-and-shift migrations.

AWS DMS & DataSync

Database and file migrations.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Recovery for on-premises and cloud servers.

AWS Compute Optimizer & Cost Explorer

Right-sizing and cost analysis.

How to prepare

A simple study plan

1Read the official exam guide and check which version (C02 or C03) you will sit.
2Make sure the Associate-level services are solid; this exam assumes them.
3Spend the most time on domain 2 (29%): designing new solutions from requirements.
4Practice long scenarios: underline the requirement that rules out each wrong answer.
5Take a full 180-minute practice exam to build stamina, then review every explanation.

Always check the official SAP-C02 exam guide ↗ for the current version of the exam.

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