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Certification Overview
This exam thoroughly tests your ability to architect highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems on AWS, with a strong emphasis on enterprise-level challenges. It covers designing robust solutions for new workloads, continuously improving existing solutions for optimal performance and cost, and strategically migrating and modernizing complex on-premises environments to AWS.
What This Certification Proves
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) certification validates advanced technical skills and extensive experience in designing complex, scalable, and secure cloud solutions on AWS. It proves an individual's ability to evaluate organizational requirements, make architectural recommendations for multi-account and hybrid environments, and optimize existing workloads for cost, performance, and operational excellence.
Who Should Take This Exam
Experienced Solutions Architects, Cloud Architects, and individuals with at least two years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architectures on AWS. This exam is ideal for those responsible for leading complex AWS implementation projects and guiding organizations through significant cloud transformations.
Topic Breakdown
10 domains covering 857 questions
| Domain | Questions | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Continuous Improvement For Existing Solutions | 349 | 41% |
| Design Solutions For Organizational Complexity | 177 | 21% |
| Migrate Workloads And Modernize Solutions | 154 | 18% |
| Design For New Solutions | 128 | 15% |
| Accelerate Workload Migration And Modernization | 31 | 4% |
| Design Secure Architectures | 8 | 1% |
| Design Resilient Architectures | 4 | 0% |
| Design High-Performing Architectures | 3 | 0% |
| Design Cost-Optimized Architectures | 2 | 0% |
| Security And Compliance | 1 | 0% |
Study Plans
Choose a study plan that matches your schedule and experience level
30 Days
Intensive Sprint
Week 1-2
- Master fundamentals: Continuous Improvement For Existing Solutions
- Read Amazon official documentation
- Complete 29 questions daily
Week 3
- Deep dive: Design Solutions For Organizational Complexity
- Review weak areas from results
- Take 2 full-length exams
Week 4
- Review all flagged questions
- Timed exams to build stamina
- Final revision of key concepts
60 Days
Balanced Approach
Week 1-2
- Survey all exam domains
- Set up study environment
- Begin with foundational topics
Week 3-4
- Focus: Continuous Improvement For Existing Solutions
- Focus: Design Solutions For Organizational Complexity
- 15 questions daily
Week 5-6
- Focus: Migrate Workloads And Modernize Solutions
- Hands-on labs if applicable
- Review explanations for wrong answers
Week 7-8
- Complete all 857 questions
- Identify and eliminate weak areas
- Take 3 full-length timed tests
90 Days
Comprehensive Study
Month 1
- Learn all exam domains at a comfortable pace
- Build strong foundational knowledge
- 10 questions daily
Month 2
- Deep dive into each domain
- Hands-on practice and labs
- Take weekly timed exams
Month 3
- Work through all 857 questions
- Identify and eliminate weak areas
- Take 3 full-length timed exams
SAP-C02-Specific Tips
- Deep dive into AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars (Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization) and apply them to complex, multi-account scenarios.
- Focus heavily on various migration strategies (e.g., the 6 R's) and modernization patterns, understanding the tools and services that facilitate accelerating these processes for large-scale workloads.
- Practice designing solutions for highly complex and hybrid architectures, including advanced networking (VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway), identity (SSO, IAM), and security best practices across organizations.
- Gain hands-on experience with advanced AWS services, including AWS Organizations, Service Control Policies (SCPs), advanced data strategies, serverless patterns, container orchestration, and disaster recovery.
- Familiarize yourself with AWS whitepapers, reference architectures, and re:Invent presentations, paying close attention to large-scale deployments, governance, and compliance considerations.
- Work through extensive scenario-based practice questions (like the 878 available), as the exam heavily tests your ability to apply knowledge to real-world, intricate business problems and trade-offs.
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Sample Questions
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A Solutions Architect must update an application environment within AWS Elastic Beanstalk using a blue/ green deployment methodology. The Solutions Architect creates an environment that is identical to the existing application environment and deploys the application to the new environment. What should be done next to complete the update?
A company operates quick-service restaurants. The restaurants follow a predictable model with high sales traffic for 4 hours daily. Sales traffic is lower outside of those peak hours. - The point of sale and management platform is deployed in the AWS Cloud and has a backend that is based on Amazon DynamoDB. - The database table uses provisioned throughput mode with 100,000 RCUs and 80,000 WCUs to match known peak resource consumption. - The company wants to reduce Its DynamoDB cost and minimize the operational overhead for the IT staff. Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company wants to change its internal cloud billing strategy for each of its business units. Currently, the cloud governance team shares reports for overall cloud spending with the head of each business unit. The company uses AWS Organizations lo manage the separate AWS accounts for each business unit. The existing tagging standard in Organizations includes the application, environment, and owner. The cloud governance team wants a centralized solution so each business unit receives monthly reports on its cloud spending. The solution should also send notifications for any cloud spending that exceeds a set threshold. Which solution is the MOST cost-effective way to meet these requirements?
A company is running an application distributed over several Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer. The security team requires that all application access attempts be made available for analysis. Information about the client IP address, connection type, and user agent must be included. Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has developed an application that is running Windows Server on VMware vSphere VMs that the company hosts on premises. The application data is stored in a proprietary format that must be read through the application. The company manually provisioned the servers and the application. As part of its disaster recovery plan, the company wants the ability to host its application on AWS temporarily if the company's on-premises environment becomes unavailable. The company wants the application to return to on-premises hosting after a disaster recovery event is complete. The RPO is 5 minutes. Which solution meets these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?
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