AWS Solutions Architect SAA-C03

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) covers designing secure, resilient, high-performing and cost-optimized architectures on AWS. These pages break the exam down objective by objective, with explained practice questions and memory hooks so you can see exactly where you stand before you book.

• Exam code: SAA-C03
• 65 questions
• Passing score: 720
• 130 minutes

Exam domains

Design Secure Architectures 30%

• 1.1 - Designing secure access (IAM roles and policies)
• 1.2 - Securing workloads and applications
• 1.3 - Data security: encryption, secrets and S3 protection

Design Resilient Architectures 26%

• 2.1 - Highly available and resilient architectures
• 2.2 - Resilient databases and data

Design High-Performing Architectures 24%

• 3.1 - High-performing content delivery (CloudFront)
• 3.2 - High-performing databases and caching
• 3.3 - High-performing compute (placement groups, instance types)

Design Cost-Optimized Architectures 20%

• 4.1 - Cost-optimized compute (Spot, Reserved, right-sizing)
• 4.2 - Cost-optimized storage (S3 tiers and lifecycle)