AWS Solutions Architect Professional Practice Questions (Free Sample)

Free practice sample

Fifteen original SAP-C02 practice questions, unlocked with no signup and instant scoring. The sample is spread across all four domains at blueprint proportions, so it reflects the shape of the real exam rather than a single topic slice.

What makes SAP-C02 hard is not the services. It is the discipline of ranking imperfect options. Almost every question is a scenario with four technically workable answers, and you have to pick the one that best satisfies the stated constraints: cost, operational overhead, availability, security posture, time to value. These questions are written to that standard, and every explanation names the near-miss distractor and says exactly which constraint it fails.

Vendor · AWS Code · SAP-C02 Questions · 75 (65 scored) Duration · 180 min Pass · 750 / 1000 Cost · $300 USD 4 domains Valid 3 years
Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity Domain 1 · 26%
Design for New Solutions Domain 2 · 29%
Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions Domain 3 · 25%
Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization Domain 4 · 20%

AWS Solutions Architect Professional Practice Questions

  1. Question 1 of 15Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity

    A company with 60 AWS accounts under AWS Organizations must guarantee that no account can disable CloudTrail, including by its own administrators. What should the architect implement?

  2. Question 2 of 15Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity

    Twelve VPCs across four accounts and two Regions must communicate with each other and with an on-premises data centre, with routing managed centrally as the estate grows. Which design is most appropriate?

  3. Question 3 of 15Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity

    A central security team must be able to read CloudTrail logs from all member accounts while member account administrators cannot delete them. What design meets both requirements?

  4. Question 4 of 15Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity

    A parent company acquires a business already running in its own AWS account and wants consolidated billing and centralised guardrails without rebuilding workloads. What is the appropriate first step?

  5. Question 5 of 15Design for New Solutions

    A regulated workload requires an RPO of five minutes and an RTO of thirty minutes in a second Region, while keeping steady-state cost low. Which strategy fits?

  6. Question 6 of 15Design for New Solutions

    An application must process uploaded files where each file takes up to 40 minutes and volume is highly variable. Which compute choice is most suitable?

  7. Question 7 of 15Design for New Solutions

    A global read-heavy application must serve users on four continents with single-digit millisecond reads and tolerate the loss of an entire Region. Which data layer fits?

  8. Question 8 of 15Design for New Solutions

    A microservice must call a partner API that allows only a fixed set of source IP addresses, while the service itself runs in private subnets across three Availability Zones. What design satisfies the partner requirement?

  9. Question 9 of 15Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

    A monolithic application on EC2 suffers slow deployments and coupled failures. The company wants incremental modernisation without a rewrite. What is the most appropriate approach?

  10. Question 10 of 15Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

    Cost analysis shows a large spend on data transfer from EC2 instances retrieving objects from S3 in the same Region. What change reduces this most directly?

  11. Question 11 of 15Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

    An Aurora database serving a reporting workload shows heavy read contention during business hours while writes are modest. Which change addresses the bottleneck with least disruption?

  12. Question 12 of 15Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

    An operations team spends significant effort patching EC2 instances that run a stateless web tier behind an Application Load Balancer. The company wants to reduce that operational burden without changing the application language or framework.

  13. Question 13 of 15Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization

    A company must move 900 TB from an on-premises NAS to Amazon S3 within three weeks, with a 500 Mbps internet link shared with production traffic. What is the most appropriate approach?

  14. Question 14 of 15Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization

    Before migrating hundreds of on-premises servers, an architect needs dependency mapping and right-sizing recommendations. Which service provides this?

  15. Question 15 of 15Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization

    A commercial Oracle database must move to AWS with minimal downtime and the company wants to leave commercial licensing behind. Which combination is appropriate?

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Frequently asked questions about SAP-C02

How many questions are on the actual SAP-C02 exam?

75 questions, of which 65 are scored. The other ten are unscored items AWS uses to trial questions for future exams, and you will not know which are which. Pacing matters: 180 minutes across 75 long scenarios is roughly two and a half minutes per item to read, weigh four workable answers, and commit.

What score do I need to pass SAP-C02?

750 out of 1000, the highest cut of any AWS exam tier. That is a scaled score rather than a raw percentage. The Certifym practice pass mark is set to the honest raw-score equivalent, holding you to the same standard AWS applies on test day.

Which domain should I spend the most time on?

Design for New Solutions, at 29%, is the largest single domain and where the best-fit reasoning is tested most heavily. Together with Organizational Complexity at 26% it accounts for 55% of the exam. Migration and Modernization is lightest at 20% but leans hardest on real operational experience.

What does the exam cost and how long is it valid?

$300 USD, and the credential is valid for three years.

What experience do I need before attempting it?

There is no formal prerequisite, but SAP-C02 is written for practitioners who already ship real workloads on AWS and now design across many accounts, Regions, and teams at once. Two of the four domains lean heavily on operational experience, so time spent running an actual AWS estate counts for more here than reading does.

How is SAP-C02 different from the associate-level exam?

The associate 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. It tests the judgment to rank several defensible designs against stated constraints rather than service knowledge.

How is this free sample different from the full Certifym bank?

The sample is a fixed 15-question set spread across the four domains at blueprint proportions. The full Certifym bank rotates across ten industry verticals (healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, federal, retail, SaaS, higher education, energy, telecom, and a mixed-scenario simulator) so the same architectural pattern reappears in different contexts. None of the paid-bank items appear in this sample.

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