Exam prep for
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Exam set and awarded by Amazon Web Services On demand SAP-C03
For experienced AWS solutions architects preparing for AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional: strengthen advanced architecture design and implementation judgment across security, cost, resilience and operations.
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The exam in numbers
Assesses advanced AWS architecture across cloud design, security, cost, resilience and automation. Book through the AWS Certification Account for a Pearson VUE test centre or online proctoring. Estimates (no official figures): 35–45% first-attempt pass rate, from Sailor.sh’s SAP-C02 estimate (methodology not disclosed); 180–240 preparation hours, based on its 12-week plan at 15–20 hours per week. Annual candidates: estimate unavailable. Your mock exams use this learning plan's question count, time limit and pass mark.
- Questions
- 75
- Time limit
- 180min
- Mock pass mark
- 72%
- 54 correct
- Exam fee (paid to Amazon Web Services)
- US$300
- When you book the exam
- Sitting
- On demand
- Single select (Radio): 4 options
- Multiple select (Checkbox): 5 options
- Diagrams in the workspace
Upcoming sittings
Pick a sitting when you start. Your workspace counts down to it and paces your prep from there.
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What AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional covers
5 modules · 21 units · ~21h of structured prep. Each exam domain with the weight the exam gives it, and the modules that prepare you for it.
- 01Architecture Design and Implementation Built for the Cloud 25%
- Design architectures built for the cloud
- Integrate AI and ML services into architectures
- Design hybrid cloud integration patterns
- Design network architectures
- Design data, storage, and database architectures
- 02Security, Compliance, and Governance 25%
- Design identity security architectures
- Design solutions to implement encryption and key management strategies
- Design multi-account governance and compliance solutions
- Design architectures to meet compliance requirements
- Design security and responsible AI controls
- 03Cost-Optimized Architecture Design 15%
- Design architectures based on AWS pricing models
- Optimize data transfer and network costs
- Design cost allocation and visibility solutions
- Optimize storage and database costs
- 04Resilience, Migration, and Business Continuity 15%
- Design migration strategies by using AWS frameworks
- Design disaster recovery architectures
- Design solutions to meet business continuity and resiliency requirements
- 05Operational Excellence and Automation 20%
- Design infrastructure as code
- Design CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines
- Design observability and monitoring solutions
- Design operational automation and resilient systems
Your exam workspace counts down and keeps score
Set your exam day once. The workspace paces your prep in four phases, weighs your coverage by what each topic is worth, and shows where the marks are still open after every mock.
- Overview
- All attempts
- Review
- Preview questions
- Diagrams
- Questions
- 75
- Time limit
- 180 minutes
- Pass score
- 72% · 54 correct
days until your exam
6 weeks
Thursday, 24 December 2026
- Learn 8+ weeks out
- Mock and repair 8 to 2 weeks out
- Simulate Last 2 weeks
- Consolidate Last 3 days
Now: Mock and repair. Sit a full mock every week or two, then practise the topics you missed.
How ready you are
- Exam-weighted coverage
- 78% of the plan, counted by what each topic is worth
- Full mocks taken
- 2 Prep guides suggest three to five before the exam
- Latest mock
- 68% 4 points below the 72% pass mark
Where the marks are still open
- Operational Excellence and Automation 20% of the exam 63%
- Resilience, Migration, and Business Continuity 15% of the exam 54%
- Cost-Optimized Architecture Design 15% of the exam 71%
- Architecture Design and Implementation Built for the Cloud 25% of the exam 88%
- Security, Compliance, and Governance 25% of the exam 100%
How the content is written
Write precise, practical architecture guidance for experienced AWS solutions architects, emphasizing scenario constraints, justified decisions and trade-offs. Mirror the exam’s question formats without claiming to reproduce exam questions.
- Worked examples
- Heavy
- Technical jargon
- Heavy
- Maths & formulas
- Light
- Code
- Light
- Diagrams
- Light
Try a sample question
Elandi wrote these in this learning plan's style. Pick an answer to see whether it's right and why. They are not taken from the exam.
A company runs a steady compute baseline across EC2 and Fargate. It expects to change instance families and move more of the baseline to Fargate during the next year. Overnight batch demand varies widely and can tolerate interruption and retries. The company wants to reduce cost without committing to peak usage. Which purchase strategy best fits? One answer
A payment service must survive a Regional outage with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of one hour. The team has provisioned a recovery Region but has not tested failover. It needs evidence that the design meets both targets. Which TWO actions should the architect recommend? (Choose two.) Select all that apply
An application team deploys frequently using a pipeline. A new version has passed preproduction tests, but a defect may appear only under production traffic. The team can route a small percentage of traffic to the new version and has a reliable error-rate alarm. It must limit initial exposure and automatically revert if the alarm fires. Which deployment strategy best fits? One answer
A security team plans an explicit-deny service control policy (SCP) for a development organizational unit (OU) to restrict selected actions in member accounts. Administrators still need approved actions, and the team must minimize rollout disruption. Which TWO steps should the architect take? (Choose two.) Select all that apply
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