AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02)
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) exam is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role. The exam validates a candidate's advanced technical skills and experience in 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-C02) exam is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role. The exam validates a candidate's advanced technical skills and experience in designing optimized AWS solutions that are based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
The exam also validates a candidate's ability to complete the following tasks within the scope of the AWS Well-Architected Framework:
Design for organizational complexity.
Design for new solutions.
Continuously improve existing solutions.
Accelerate workload migration and modernization.
Target Candidate Description
The target candidate has 2 or more years of experience in using AWS services to design and implement cloud solutions. This candidate has the ability to evaluate cloud application requirements and make architectural recommendations for deployment of applications on AWS. This candidate also can provide expert guidance about architectural design that extends across multiple applications and projects within a complex organization.
The following list contains job tasks that the target candidate is not expected to be able to perform and knowledge that the target candidate is not expected to have. This list is non-exhaustive. These tasks and knowledge are out of scope for the exam:
Frontend development for mobile apps
12-factor app methodology
In-depth knowledge of operating systems
Exam Content
The exam contains one or more of 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.
The exam includes 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.
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) 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 750. 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.
Content Domains
For detailed information about each domain, see the following sections:
AWS Services for the Exam
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional exam covers specific AWS services that are relevant to solutions architects. Understanding which services are in scope and which are out of scope can help you focus your preparation efforts.
For detailed information about the AWS services covered in the exam, see the following sections:
