Certification guide
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (exam code SAP-C02) is Amazon Web Services’ senior architect credential. It is designed for practitioners who already ship real workloads on AWS and now need to design across many accounts, many Regions, and many teams at once. The exam does not reward memorized service lists. It rewards the judgment that comes from having lived with an AWS estate long enough to know which trade-off matters when.
Where the associate-level Solutions Architect exam asks whether you know what a service does, the professional exam asks whether you know when to reach for it, when to leave it alone, and what breaks in the long run. Almost every question is a multi-paragraph scenario with four technically workable answers. The scored item asks you to pick the one that best satisfies the stated constraints – usually some mix of cost, operational overhead, availability, security posture, and time to value. That is what makes SAP-C02 hard: not the services, but the discipline of ranking imperfect options.
The exam guide organizes the material into four domains. Two of them – designing for organizational complexity and designing new solutions – together account for fifty-five percent of the exam and should shape the bulk of your study. Improving existing solutions and accelerating migration make up the remainder and lean heavily on operational experience.
Code SAP-C02 75 scored items 180 minutes Pass 750 of 1000 USD $300 3-year validity 4 domains
Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
Domain 1 · 26%Multi-account architecture, hybrid networking, federation, cross-account security controls, and enterprise-scale cost visibility. Expect AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Transit Gateway, IAM Identity Center, SCPs, Direct Connect, and the cost-management stack to appear together in the same scenarios.
Design for New Solutions
Domain 2 · 29%The largest domain. Greenfield architecture end to end: compute selection, storage and database choice, integration patterns, deployment strategy, business continuity, security controls, and cost optimization at design time. This is where the “best fit” reasoning is tested most heavily.
Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions
Domain 3 · 25%Operational excellence, security uplift, performance tuning, reliability improvements, and cost reduction on estates that are already running. Observability, automated response, right-sizing, purpose-built database migrations, and Well-Architected reviews live here.
Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
Domain 4 · 20%The seven Rs, portfolio analysis, and the AWS migration tooling – MGN, DMS, SCT, DataSync, Storage Gateway, and Snow. Also the modernization patterns: containerize, refactor to serverless, adopt purpose-built databases, and introduce managed AI/ML where it earns its place.
Certifym’s SAP-C02 practice-exam bank is built to reflect the professional-level style: long scenarios, four defensible-looking answers, and explanations that name the near-miss distractor and say why the best answer beats it. Sets rotate across ten industry verticals so the same architectural pattern – say, a multi-Region active-active refactor – reappears against healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, federal, retail, SaaS, higher education, energy, telecom, and a mixed-scenario simulator. That is how you build the intuition for what changes when the industry changes.
The pass mark on our sets is set to the honest raw-score equivalent of the real exam – not luck in the heavy ones, but the same standard AWS holds candidates to on test day. Hitting it consistently across several vertical sets is a strong signal you are ready.
AWS Solutions Architect Professional - Practice Exam
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional practice bank. Sixty-five scenario-based questions modeled on the SAP-C02 exam guide across all four domains with the generic enterprise vertical…
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