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Associate-level certification for designing secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized architectures on AWS.
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About this exam
SAA-C03 validates the ability to design solutions on AWS using architectural best practices: choosing the right compute, storage, networking, and database services to meet security, resilience, performance, and cost requirements.
Who should take this exam
Solutions architects, cloud engineers, and developers with around one year of hands-on AWS experience who design and deploy systems on AWS. It is the most popular AWS associate certification and a strong foundation for professional-level paths.
Career benefits
The Solutions Architect Associate is consistently among the highest-value IT certifications. It signals you can translate business requirements into well-architected AWS solutions and opens doors to architect and senior cloud engineering roles.
How to prepare
Study the AWS Well-Architected Framework and build small projects that combine EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, and IAM. Practice choosing between similar services (e.g. SQS vs SNS, EBS vs EFS), then rehearse with timed mock exams.
Quick facts
Exam cost$150 USD
Valid for3 years
Length130 minutes
Questions on exam65
Passing score720 / 1000
FormatMultiple choice & multiple response
Practice questions150
Objectives4
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What's covered
1. Design Secure Architectures
30%Design secure access using IAM, encryption with KMS, secure networking, and data protection controls.
2. Design Resilient Architectures
26%Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and decoupled architectures that recover from failure.
3. Design High-Performing Architectures
24%Select scalable and performant compute, storage, database, and networking solutions.
4. Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
20%Choose cost-effective compute, storage, and data transfer options and right-size workloads.
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