AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C03)
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C03) exam is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role. The exam validates a candidate's advanced technical skills and experience designing optimized AWS solutions that are based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
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Introduction
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C03)
The exam also validates a candidate's ability to complete the following tasks:
Design architectures built for the cloud with AI/ML integration.
Design security, compliance, and governance architectures.
Design cost-optimized architectures.
Design for resilience, migration, and business continuity.
Design for operational excellence and automation.
Target candidate description
The target candidate should have 2 or more years of experience using AWS services to design and implement cloud solutions. This candidate should have the ability to evaluate cloud application requirements and make architectural recommendations for deploying applications on AWS. This candidate should also be able to provide expert guidance about architectural design that extends across multiple applications and projects within a complex organization. These architectural designs include architectures built for the cloud, serverless architectures, and AI-integrated architectures in multi-account environments.
Job tasks and knowledge that are out of scope for the target candidate
The following list contains job tasks that the target candidate is not expected to be able to perform. The list also contains knowledge that the target candidate is not expected to have. This list is non-exhaustive. The following tasks and knowledge are out of scope for the exam:
In-depth knowledge of operating systems
AI/ML model training, fine-tuning, and data science workflows
Security incident forensics and detailed threat investigation
Application code development and debugging
This exam guide also includes a list of technologies and concepts that might appear on the exam, a list of in-scope AWS services and features, and a list of out-of-scope AWS services and features.
Exam content
Response types
The exam includes the following question types:
Multiple choice: Has one correct response and three incorrect responses (distractors).
Multiple response: Has two or more correct responses out of five or more response options. You must select all the correct responses to receive credit for the question.
Unanswered questions are scored as incorrect. There is no penalty for guessing. The exam includes 65 questions that affect your score.
Unscored content
The exam includes 10 unscored questions that do not affect your score. AWS collects information about performance on these unscored questions to evaluate these questions for future use as scored questions. These unscored questions are not identified on the exam.
Exam results
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C03) exam has a pass or fail designation. The exam is scored against a minimum standard established by AWS professionals who follow certification industry best practices and guidelines.
Your results for the exam are reported as a scaled score of 100–1,000. The minimum passing score is 720. Your score shows how you performed on the exam as a whole and whether you passed. Scaled scoring models help equate scores across multiple exam forms that might have slightly different difficulty levels.
Your score report could contain a table of classifications of your performance at each section level. The exam uses a compensatory scoring model, which means that you do not need to achieve a passing score in each section. You need to pass only the overall exam.
Each section of the exam has a specific weighting, so some sections have more questions than other sections have. The table of classifications contains general information that highlights your strengths and weaknesses. Use caution when you interpret section-level feedback.
Content outline
This exam guide includes weightings, content domains, and tasks for the exam. This guide does not provide a comprehensive list of the content on the exam. However, additional context for each task statement is available to help you prepare for the exam.
The exam has the following content domains and weightings:
Content Domain 1: Architecture Design and Implementation Built for the Cloud (25% of scored content)
Content Domain 2: Security, Compliance, and Governance (25% of scored content)
Content Domain 3: Cost-Optimized Architecture Design (15% of scored content)
Content Domain 4: Resilience, Migration, and Business Continuity (15% of scored content)
Content Domain 5: Operational Excellence and Automation (20% of scored content)
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