AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Exam Prep
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) exam validates Secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized AWS architectures. ExamPal publishes 661 premium questions and a 40-question free practice exam for this AWS certification, with pages mapped to 4 blueprint domains. The local official-details index records: 130 minutes; 65 total: 50 scored + 15 unscored; Multiple choice / multiple response.
Exam Details
Exam Overview
Administered by
AWS Certification
Exam Format
65 total: 50 scored + 15 unscored; 130 minutes; Multiple choice / multiple response
Passing Score
720 / 1000
Exam Fee
$150
Prerequisite
Hands-on AWS architecture experience is recommended.
Topics Covered
ExamPal covers all major topics tested on the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam. Our questions are grounded in official study materials.
Domain 1: Design Secure Architectures
This domain covers securing AWS access, workloads, applications, and data. It emphasizes identity and access management, network and application security, and data protection controls aligned to AWS security best practices and the shared responsibility model.
Domain 2: Design Resilient Architectures
This domain covers scalable, loosely coupled, highly available, and fault-tolerant architectures. It emphasizes distributed design, load balancing, disaster recovery, failover, service quotas, and AWS global infrastructure across Regions and Availability Zones.
Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures
This domain covers storage, compute, database, network, and data ingestion/transformation solutions optimized for performance and scalability. It focuses on selecting appropriate AWS services, configurations, and patterns to meet business requirements for throughput, latency, elasticity, and data processing.
Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
This domain covers designing storage, compute, database, and network architectures that minimize cost while meeting business requirements. It focuses on selecting cost-effective AWS services and configurations across core workload components.
Exam Blueprint
What the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Exam Tests
The exam is divided into 4 domains. Here is what each domain covers and how much weight it carries on the test.
Domain 1: Design Secure Architectures
30% of examThis domain covers securing AWS access, workloads, applications, and data. It emphasizes identity and access management, network and application security, and data protection controls aligned to AWS security best practices and the shared responsibility model.
- Task 1.1: Design secure access to AWS resources
- Apply security best practices to IAM and root users
- Design flexible authorization model
- Task 1.2: Design secure workloads and applications
- Design VPC architectures with security components
- Determine network segmentation strategies
- Task 1.3: Determine appropriate data security controls
Key references: AWS SAA-C03 official exam guide · ExamPal shared topic tree
Domain 2: Design Resilient Architectures
26% of examThis domain covers scalable, loosely coupled, highly available, and fault-tolerant architectures. It emphasizes distributed design, load balancing, disaster recovery, failover, service quotas, and AWS global infrastructure across Regions and Availability Zones.
- Task 2.1: Design scalable and loosely coupled architectures
- Task 2.2: Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures
Key references: AWS SAA-C03 official exam guide · ExamPal shared topic tree
Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures
24% of examThis domain covers storage, compute, database, network, and data ingestion/transformation solutions optimized for performance and scalability. It focuses on selecting appropriate AWS services, configurations, and patterns to meet business requirements for throughput, latency, elasticity, and data processing.
- Task 3.1: Determine high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions
- Task 3.2: Design high-performing and elastic compute solutions
- Task 3.3: Determine high-performing database solutions
- Task 3.4: Determine high-performing and/or scalable network architectures
- Task 3.5: Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions
Key references: AWS SAA-C03 official exam guide · ExamPal shared topic tree
Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
20% of examThis domain covers designing storage, compute, database, and network architectures that minimize cost while meeting business requirements. It focuses on selecting cost-effective AWS services and configurations across core workload components.
- Task 4.1: Design cost-optimized storage solutions
- Task 4.2: Design cost-optimized compute solutions
- Knowledge of:
- Task 4.3: Design cost-optimized database solutions
- Task 4.4: Design cost-optimized network architectures
Key references: AWS SAA-C03 official exam guide · ExamPal shared topic tree
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- 661 SAA-C03 premium practice questions
- Free 40-question interactive practice exam
- 4 official AWS blueprint domains covered
- 180 glossary terms loaded from the shared terminology pack
- Detailed explanations and per-option rationales for study review
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