Study Guide
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Study Guide
Use the official AWS domain outline to connect Complex organizational architecture, new solution design, workload improvement, migration, and modernization to scenario-based questions and explanations.
How the Exam Is Structured
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) validates Complex organizational architecture, new solution design, workload improvement, migration, and modernization. The ExamPal practice bank includes 404 premium questions and 40 free questions mapped across the official blueprint.
| Domain | Weight | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Domain 1: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity | 26% | Task 1.1: Architect network connectivity strategies; AWS Global Infrastructure |
| Domain 2: Design for New Solutions | 29% | Task 2.1: Design a deployment strategy to meet business requirements; Infrastructure as code (IaC) |
| Domain 3: Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions | 25% | Task 3.1: Determine a strategy to improve overall operational excellence; Alerting and automatic remediation strategies |
| Domain 4: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization | 20% | Task 4.1: Select existing workloads and processes for potential migration; Migration assessment and tracking tools (for example, AWS Migration Hub) |
26% of exam
Domain 1: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
This domain covers designing AWS architectures that address complex organizational networking, security, resilience, multi-account governance, and cost visibility requirements. It emphasizes selecting appropriate AWS services and patterns to support hybrid connectivity, centralized control, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
29% of exam
Domain 2: Design for New Solutions
This domain covers designing new AWS solutions to meet business requirements for deployment, continuity, security, reliability, performance, and cost optimization. It emphasizes selecting services and patterns that support automation, resilience, least privilege, high availability, and efficient resource use.
25% of exam
Domain 3: Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions
This domain covers improving existing AWS solutions over time, including optimization, refinement, and adaptation to changing business or technical needs. It focuses on iterative architectural changes that preserve or improve operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
20% of exam
Domain 4: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
This domain covers selecting workloads for migration, choosing migration approaches, designing target architectures, and identifying modernization opportunities. It emphasizes AWS migration, networking, identity, governance, compute, storage, database, serverless, and integration services used to move and modernize existing workloads.
Key Terms to Know
These terms are loaded from the shared terminology pack and appear across the question explanations.
- 7Rs
- The seven common migration strategies used to evaluate application migration options.
- ACM
- An AWS service for certificate management; the text references it as ACM.
- AWS Amplify
- An AWS frontend web and mobile service listed as in-scope for the exam.
- AWS Application Discovery Service
- An AWS service that helps discover on-premises applications and infrastructure for migration planning.
- AWS Application Migration Service
- An AWS service that helps migrate applications to AWS with minimal changes.
- AWS Artifact
- An AWS service for accessing compliance reports and agreements, listed as in-scope for the exam.
- AWS Audit Manager
- An AWS service for assessing compliance and auditing controls, listed as in-scope for the exam.
- AWS Backup
- An AWS service for centralizing and automating backups, listed as in-scope for the exam.
- AWS Budgets
- An AWS tool used to set and monitor cost budgets.
- AWS CLI
- The acronym for AWS Command Line Interface, a command-line tool for interacting with AWS services.
- AWS Certificate Manager
- An AWS service for certificate management; the text references it as ACM.
- AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
- An AWS service for provisioning and managing SSL/TLS certificates, listed as in-scope for the exam.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02)
- An AWS certification exam for individuals in a solutions architect role that validates advanced technical skills and experience in designing optimized AWS solutions based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- AWS CloudFormation
- An AWS infrastructure-as-code service used to define and provision resources.
- AWS CloudHSM
- An AWS service that provides hardware security modules for cryptographic key storage and operations, listed as in-scope for the exam.
- AWS CloudTrail
- An AWS security and auditing service used for centralized security event notifications and auditing.
- AWS CodeArtifact
- An AWS developer tool service listed as in-scope for the exam.
- AWS CodeBuild
- An AWS developer tool service listed as in-scope for the exam.
Official Materials and Guidance
This page is built from AWS SAP-C02 official exam guide, the shared syllabus, topic tree, terminology pack, free pack, and premium pack.
- -AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Exam Guide
- -AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Sample Questions
- -AWS Sap c02 Exam Guide