Design secure, resilient, high-performing and cost-optimized architectures on AWS.
4.6(247 reviews)
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam (SAA-C03) checks that you can design
4.6 out of 5 from 247 reviews
Moderate overall. It helped with CloudWatch alarms, Auto Scaling policies, and Route 53 failover, and the explanations were clear enough to spot where my logic was off.
The practice set made me slow down on security groups, KMS key usage, and multi-AZ database design. I liked that the questions forced careful reading rather than quick guessing.
Mixed experience. It covers EC2 placement groups, ELB behavior, and RDS backups, but several questions leaned on wording instead of the concept itself.
Good practice for SAA-C03 style thinking. The sections on IAM policies, S3 storage classes, and VPC routing were the most useful to me, though a few scenarios felt wordy.
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65 multiple choice and multiple response questions in 130 minutes. 15 of them are unscored. You take it at a test center or online with a proctor.
A scaled score of 720 out of 1,000.
Three years.
Take a test, then read the explanation for every question you miss. Watch for the key phrase in each question, such as least operational overhead or most cost-effective, because it decides between options that all work.