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  • Week 1
    • 1.The Game Called the SAP Exam: Hands-On Techniques for Decomposing Scenarios
    • 2.IAM, STS, and Federation: Splitting the Word "Permission" into Six Layers
    • 3.The Anatomy of a VPC: What Route Tables Really Decide
    • 4.Four Compute Pillars in Depth: Revisiting Nitro, EBS, ELB, and Auto Scaling Through a Pro Lens
    • 5.Week 1 Integration: When IAM, VPC, and EC2 Meet in a Single Scenario
  • Week 2
  • Week 3
  • Week 4
  • Week 5
  • Week 6
  • Week 7
  • Week 8
  • Week 9
  • Week 10
  • Week 11
  • Week 12
  • Week 13
  • Week 14
  • Week 15
  • Week 16
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Solutions Architect - Professional

16 weeks · 80 days · Professional

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Exam Information

Advanced · 2+ years of hands-on experience recommended
Questions
75
Duration
180min
Passing
750 / 1000
Cost
$300
Validity
3y

Domain Weights

Design for New Solutions29%
Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity26%
Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions25%
Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization20%
Format75 multiple choice or multiple response questions
Prerequisites2+ years of experience designing and implementing cloud solutions using AWS services recommended
LanguagesEnglish, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Latin America)

Benefits & Tips

  • Passing earns you a 50% discount voucher for your next exam. Find it under "Benefits" in your AWS Certification account and use it for recertification or another certification (it has an expiry date, so use it before then).
  • The certification is valid for 3 years and must be renewed before it expires. You can use the 50% voucher for recertification too.
  • There is no free retake (every attempt is paid in full). Passing on the first try is the cheapest route, so take the real exam once your mock exam scores clear the passing mark.
  • Passing also earns you a Credly digital badge that you can add to LinkedIn and your email signature.

FAQ

How many questions are on the SAP-C02 exam, and how long is it?+

SAP-C02 has 75 questions and a time limit of 180 minutes. Questions are multiple choice and multiple response.

What is the passing score?+

You need 750 or higher out of 1000 to pass. The score is a scaled score adjusted for question difficulty, so it is not the same as a simple percentage of correct answers.

How much does the exam cost and how do I register?+

The exam fee is $300 USD, and you can take it through Pearson VUE at a test center or as an online proctored exam. There is no free retake, so you pay the full fee each time you sit the exam.

How long is the certification valid? How do I recertify?+

The certification is valid for 3 years after you pass, and you must recertify before it expires. When you pass, you receive a 50% discount voucher for your next exam, which you can use for recertification or for another AWS certification exam.

Can I take the exam in Korean?+

Yes, it is offered in 6 languages in total, including Korean. You can choose your language when you register for the exam.

Official Exam Guide Register for Exam

Week 1

  • Day 1The Game Called the SAP Exam: Hands-On Techniques for Decomposing Scenarios
  • Day 2IAM, STS, and Federation: Splitting the Word "Permission" into Six Layers
  • Day 3The Anatomy of a VPC: What Route Tables Really Decide
  • Day 4Four Compute Pillars in Depth: Revisiting Nitro, EBS, ELB, and Auto Scaling Through a Pro Lens
  • Day 5Week 1 Integration: When IAM, VPC, and EC2 Meet in a Single Scenario

Week 2

  • Day 1AWS Organizations: A New Unit of Thought for Multi-Account Architecture
  • Day 2Service Control Policy: The Ceiling as a Thinking Tool
  • Day 3Control Tower and Landing Zone: Automating Governance
  • Day 4IAM Identity Center, Permission Sets, Consolidated Billing: The Standard for Multi-Account SSO
  • Day 5Week 2 Integration: When Organizations, SCPs, CT, and IDC Meet in a Single Scenario

Week 3

  • Day 1VPC Peering vs Transit Gateway: Network Topology Selection
  • Day 2Direct Connect Architecture and Redundancy: Physics of Dedicated Lines
  • Day 3Site-to-Site VPN and Client VPN: Everything About IPsec Tunnels
  • Day 4PrivateLink and VPC Endpoint: Service-Oriented Networking
  • Day 5Week 3 Review: Advanced Networking Architecture Synthesis

Week 4

  • Day 1AWS Outposts, Local Zones, Wavelength: Extending the Cloud at the Boundary
  • Day 2Storage Gateway 4 Types Comparison: Extending On-Premises Storage to the Cloud
  • Day 3Snow Family and Large-Scale Data Transfer: The Moment Physics Beats the Internet
  • Day 4EKS Anywhere, ECS Anywhere, Hybrid Containers: Extending Orchestration Boundaries
  • Day 5Week 4 Review: A Comprehensive Look at Hybrid Cloud Architecture

Week 5

  • Day 1Multi-Region Architecture: Why Global Distribution Is Difficult
  • Day 27 Route 53 Routing Policies: DNS Determines Architecture
  • Day 3CloudFront Advanced: Why CDN Is More Than Simple Caching
  • Day 4Route 53 Deep Dive: Health Check Algorithms, DNSSEC, Geoproximity Math, and Resolver Hybrid DNS
  • Day 5Week 5 Review: Global Architecture Integrated Scenarios

Week 6

  • Day 17R Migration Strategies: Decision Language for Cloud Migration
  • Day 2AWS MGN Deep Dive: The Physics of Block-Level Replication, Comparison with DRS, and Migration Hub Orchestrator
  • Day 3AWS DMS + SCT: The Science of Database Migration
  • Day 4Migration Acceleration Tools: App2Container, MAP, Migration Hub
  • Day 5Week 6 Review: Integrated Migration Strategy Scenarios

Week 7

  • Day 1Container Orchestration Crossroads: The Real Criteria for Choosing ECS, EKS, Fargate
  • Day 2Inside EKS — Node Groups, IRSA, Karpenter Set the Operations Standard
  • Day 3Fargate Cost Anatomy — Serverless Container's Real Price Tag
  • Day 4Service Mesh Anatomy — App Mesh, Service Connect, Cloud Map Divergence
  • Day 5Week 7 Wrap-Up — Cementing It with 12 Container Scenario Questions

Week 8

  • Day 1Lambda Advanced: Concurrency, Cold Starts, and SnapStart's Internal Operations
  • Day 2Step Functions: State Model of Distributed Workflows and Saga Pattern
  • Day 3EventBridge: Unified Model of Event Bus, Pipes, and Scheduler
  • Day 4AppSync GraphQL and the Essence of SQS/SNS/Kinesis Messaging
  • Day 5Week 8 Comprehensive — 12 Serverless & Event Architecture Scenarios

Week 9

  • Day 1Data Lake Architecture: The Internals and Cost Model of S3, Glue, and Athena
  • Day 2Redshift Deep Dive: MPP Internal Operations, RA3 Storage Separation, Spectrum and Zero-ETL
  • Day 3EMR, Glue, MWAA: Big Data Orchestration and Distributed Processing Engines
  • Day 4Lake Formation, Data Governance, MSK: Fine-Grained Permissions and Real-Time Streams Under the Hood
  • Day 5Week 9 Comprehensive Review: Data Architecture as One Picture

Week 10

  • Day 1SageMaker Deep Dive: ML Lifecycle, 4 Types of Inference Endpoints, Training Cost Math
  • Day 2Bedrock Deep Dive: Generative AI Architecture, RAG Internals, Vector Search Math
  • Day 3Managed AI Services Deep Dive: Pre-trained AI Selection Logic and Sync/Async Patterns
  • Day 4MLOps Deep Dive: Science of Drift, Feature Store, Automated Retraining Pipelines
  • Day 5Week 10 Comprehensive Review: ML/AI Architecture Decisions + 12 Scenario Questions

Week 11

  • Day 1KMS Deep Dive: The Math of Envelope Encryption, the Key Policy Permission Model, and Multi-Region Keys
  • Day 2The Detection Trio: How Macie, GuardDuty, and Inspector Work Inside, and Where Their Boundaries Lie
  • Day 3Integrated Monitoring: Dividing the Roles of Security Hub, Detective, and Audit Manager
  • Day 4Edge Security: WAF, Shield, Firewall Manager, and the Layers of DDoS Defense
  • Day 5Security Wrap-Up: Encryption, Detection, Unified Monitoring, and Edge Defense in One Scenario

Week 12

  • Day 1Savings Plans and RI Strategy — The Math of Commitment Discounts, the Internals of Application Order, and Organization Sharing
  • Day 2Compute Optimizer·Rightsizing — Internal Workings of ML-Based Recommendations, Tool Comparison, Automation Patterns
  • Day 3Cost Explorer, Budgets, CUR - The Layers of Cost Visibility, Automatic Budget Controls, and the FinOps Data Pipeline
  • Day 4The Anatomy of Hidden Costs - S3 Storage Tiers, Data Transfer Pricing Structure, and the NAT Gateway Trap
  • Day 5Cost Optimization Comprehensive Review: The Math of Commitments and Spot, and the Tradeoffs of Hidden Costs

Week 13

  • Day 1Well-Architected Framework Overview — The Origins of 6 Pillars, Internal Operations of WA Tool, and Design Philosophy of Lens
  • Day 2Operational Excellence & Security Pillars Deep Dive — GitOps Roots, Shared Responsibility Model Boundaries, Three Types of Traceability Internals
  • Day 3Reliability & Performance Efficiency Pillars Deep Dive — CAP Theorem, Idempotency and Retry Mathematics, HPC Networking Physics
  • Day 4Cost & Sustainability Pillars Deep Dive — Unit Economics, Regulatory Roots of Carbon Accounting, Trade-Offs Between Two Pillars
  • Day 5Well-Architected Comprehensive Review: Distilling Six Pillars Into One Scenario

Week 14

  • Day 1Four DR Strategies and RTO/RPO Mapping — History of Disaster Recovery, Physics of Sync/Async Replication, Cloud DR Economics
  • Day 2Backup: AWS Backup & Cross-Region Copy — Legal Origins of WORM, Vault Lock Irreversibility, Multi-Account Backup Governance
  • Day 3Resilience Hub & Fault Injection Simulator — Birth of Chaos Engineering, Stop Condition's Safety Engineering, DR Verification Automation
  • Day 4DR for RDS, Aurora, and DynamoDB Global: Inside Synchronous and Asynchronous Replication, Aurora's Storage Architecture, and Active-Active Conflict Resolution
  • Day 5Resilience and DR Integrated Review: The 4 Strategies That Meet RTO/RPO, and the Tools to Verify Them

Week 15

  • Day 1Large Enterprise Global ERP Migration: The History of Multi-Account Governance, the Anatomy of the 7 Rs of Migration, and the Legal and Technical Roots of Data Sovereignty
  • Day 2Startup Rapid Growth and Cost Optimization: The Economics of Serverless, the Physics of 100x Scaling, and the Math of Savings Plans
  • Day 3Finance: Regulation, Auditing, Isolation, DR - The History of PCI DSS, the Cryptography of HSMs and Key Hierarchies, and Defense in Depth in Isolation Architecture
  • Day 4Media: Global Streaming, CDN, and Real-Time — The Evolution of Streaming Protocols, the Physics of CDN Caching, and the Cryptography of DRM
  • Day 5Government and Healthcare Compliance Review — The Legal Structure of HIPAA, FedRAMP and GovCloud Isolation, Integrating the Week 15 Cases

Week 16

  • Day 1Domain 1 Review: Designing for Organizational Complexity (26%): The History of Multi-Account Governance, Routing Theory, Hybrid Encryption, and the CS Principles of Isolation Boundaries
  • Day 2Domain 2 Wrap-Up: Design for New Solutions (29%) - The History of Compute, CS Theory of Data Consistency, and the Internals of Event Architecture
  • Day 3Domain 3 Wrap-Up: Migration and Modernization (20%): The History of the 7Rs, Inside Block Replication and CDC, Bandwidth Math, and the Strangler Fig Pattern
  • Day 4Domain 4 Comprehensive Review: Continuous Improvement (25%) - The History of SRE, the Math of SLI/SLO, the Three Pillars of Observability, and the Roots of Chaos Engineering
  • Day 5Final Wrap-Up: Exam Scoring Mechanics, Item-Writer Psychology, Keyword Decoding, a 12-Question Scenario Mock Exam + D-Day Strategy