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Solutions Architect course
Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03): 4 modules, 12 lessons and 4 quizzes. This exam is multiple choice, so the practice is the course and original questions. The lab runtime is kubeadm clusters only, and this page does not include an AWS account.
What's included
A course and practice questions
4 modules, 12 lessons and 4 quizzes (24 original questions). About 2 h 35 min of reading. The lab runtime is kubeadm clusters only, so this page does not include an AWS account.
4 modules
12 lessons mapped to the domains in the public exam guide.
4 quizzes
24 original practice questions, with an explanation for every answer. They are not exam items.
130-minute exam
The length published for this exam. This page does not offer a timed mock.
Exam domains
Domains from the public guide
The domain weights below sum to 100. The official page is the source of truth: Solutions Architect – Associate exam page.
Design Secure Architectures
30%of the exam
3 competencies
- Design secure access to AWS resources
- Design secure workloads and applications
- Determine appropriate data security controls
Design Resilient Architectures
26%of the exam
2 competencies
- Design scalable and loosely coupled architectures
- Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures
Design High-Performing Architectures
24%of the exam
5 competencies
- Determine high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions
- Design high-performing and elastic compute solutions
- Determine high-performing database solutions
- Determine high-performing and/or scalable network architectures
- Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
20%of the exam
4 competencies
- Design cost-optimized storage solutions
- Design cost-optimized compute solutions
- Design cost-optimized database solutions
- Design cost-optimized network architectures
Curriculum
4 modules, 12 lessons, 4 quizzes
Lesson titles from the course. The questions stay in the quizzes, and the answers are not published here.
01Design secure architectures
Decide who can call which API, how traffic is allowed to reach a workload, and how data stays protected at rest and in transit. The public exam guide weights this domain at 30 percent of the scored content. Domain: Design Secure Architectures.
- lessonIAM, roles and account boundaries14 min
- lessonNetwork segmentation and edge controls13 min
- lessonData protection, keys and certificates13 min
02Design resilient architectures
Separate components so one failure does not take the request path with it, scale the pieces that are actually busy, and pick a recovery strategy that matches the recovery time and recovery point you were given. This domain is 26 percent of the scored content. Domain: Design Resilient Architectures.
- lessonLoose coupling with queues, events and workflows13 min
- lessonLoad balancing and elastic compute12 min
- lessonAvailability, backups and disaster recovery14 min
03Design high-performing architectures
Match storage, compute, databases, networks and data paths to the access pattern and the latency you actually need. This domain is 24 percent of the scored content. Domain: Design High-Performing Architectures.
- lessonStorage that keeps up12 min
- lessonCompute shape and database engines14 min
- lessonEdge networks and data pipelines13 min
04Design cost-optimized architectures
See where the money goes, then change storage class, purchasing, database shape and data path so you stop paying for capacity and traffic you do not use. This domain is 20 percent of the scored content. Domain: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures.
- lessonSeeing spend and choosing a storage class12 min
- lessonBuying compute without guessing12 min
- lessonDatabase shape and the data-transfer bill13 min
Read the Solutions Architect – Associate course
Sign up free to read the 12 lessons and take the 4 quizzes. The lab runtime is kubeadm clusters only, so this page does not include an AWS account.