AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Exam overview, official domain weights and free sample questions. Subscribers get 230 practice questions, 108 flashcards, 6 labs, a study guide and video lessons for this exam.
Exam at a glance
- Exam code
- SAA-C03
- Questions
- 65 (50 scored + 15 unscored)
- Time
- 130 minutes
- Question types
- multiple choice, multiple response
- Passing score
- 720 (scaled 100–1,000)
- Exam fee
- 150 USD
- Delivery
- Pearson VUE test center, online proctored
- Prerequisites
- None required. Target candidate: at least 1 year of hands-on experience designing cloud solutions that use AWS services
- Renewal
- Valid 3 years. Recertify by passing the current exam
- Version notes
- No SAA-C03 retirement date published. The Italian-language exam retires after December 31, 2026
From the official exam page (checked 2026-11-09). Always confirm details with the vendor: official exam page, official objectives.
Domains and weights
- 1.1 Design secure access to AWS resources
- 1.2 Design secure workloads and applications
- 1.3 Determine appropriate data security controls
- 2.1 Design scalable and loosely coupled architectures
- 2.2 Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures
- 3.1 Determine high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions
- 3.2 Design high-performing and elastic compute solutions
- 3.3 Determine high-performing database solutions
- 3.4 Determine high-performing and/or scalable network architectures
- 3.5 Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions
- 4.1 Design cost-optimized storage solutions
- 4.2 Design cost-optimized compute solutions
- 4.3 Design cost-optimized database solutions
- 4.4 Design cost-optimized network architectures
Free sample questions
Original questions in the style of the exam. Pick an answer to see the explanation.
A company serves a static website from an S3 bucket through CloudFront. Security wants users to reach the files only through CloudFront, never through the bucket URL. What should the architect configure?
A production RDS for PostgreSQL database must fail over automatically if its Availability Zone goes down. What should be enabled?
Users worldwide complain that images and videos load slowly from an S3 bucket in one Region. What improves this most?
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