AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP‑C02) Exam

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The SAP‑C02 examis the professional-level certification for AWS Solutions Architects. It validates a candidate’s ability to design, deploy, and evaluate complex, scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions on AWS. The exam focuses on applied architectural skills across multiple services and real-world scenarios rather than memorizing individual service details.

Exam Overview

• Exam Code: SAP‑C02
• Official Name: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• Provider: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Duration: Approximately 180 minutes
• Question Types: Multiple choice and multiple response
• Scoring: Scaled scoring model with a minimum passing standard
• Recommended Experience: At least two years of hands-on AWS architectural experience
• Format: Scenario-driven questions evaluating architectural decision-making across complex systems
  
  

Exam Content Domains and Covered Knowledge Areas

• Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
  • Architecting across multiple accounts and organizational units
  • Governance, cross-account integration, and secure networking
  • Handling complex enterprise-level requirements and constraints
    
    
• Design for New Solutions
  • Translating business goals into scalable, highly available designs
  • Selecting appropriate services and architectural patterns
  • Ensuring performance, automation, and resilience
    
    
• Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions
  • Evaluating and optimizing existing deployments
  • Operational excellence, monitoring, logging, and automation
  • Performance tuning, cost control, and security enhancements
    
    
• Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
  • Migration planning, hybrid scenarios, and modernization strategies
  • Leveraging AWS tools for smooth transitions
  • Balancing risk, downtime, and business constraints
    
    
  
  

Knowledge Areas Covered

• Networking and Connectivity: VPC design, hybrid connectivity, routing, segmentation
• Security and Identity: IAM, access control, encryption, governance
• Compute and Scaling: EC2, serverless services, auto-scaling, load balancing
• Storage and Data Services: Durability, performance tiers, replication, lifecycle management
• Operational Excellence: Monitoring, incident response, CI/CD, observability
• Migration & Modernization: Migration services, refactoring strategies, hybrid cloud integration
• Cost Optimization: Rightsizing, budgeting, resource efficiency
  
  

Purpose and Ideal Candidate
This sap-c02 exam is intended for experienced cloud professionals who can design and implement solutions for complex organizational requirements. Candidates should understand architectural trade-offs, make decisions based on best practices, and have real-world experience with AWS solutions.