SAA-C03 · Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Validates the ability to design solutions based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework: architectures that are secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized.
Practice
Original practice questions with explanations, by domain, by topic, or at random.
Exam domains
Share of scored content in each domain, from the official exam guide.
- Domain 1: Design Secure Architectures 30%
- Domain 2: Design Resilient Architectures 26%
- Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures 24%
- Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures 20%
Exam format
- Questions
- 65 (50 scored, 15 unscored and unidentified)
- Duration
- 130 minutes
- Question types
- Multiple choice, Multiple response
- Passing score
- 720 on a scaled score of 100–1,000
Study guide
Tutorials grouped by the categories of the official list of in-scope services. Open a category to see its services.
Analytics 12 tutorials
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Analytics services: choosing the right one 6 min read- Amazon Athena 6 min read
- AWS Data Exchange 4 min read
- Amazon Data Firehose 7 min read
- Amazon EMR 6 min read
- AWS Glue 8 min read
- Amazon Kinesis Data Streams 7 min read
- AWS Lake Formation 5 min read
- Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka) 6 min read
- Amazon OpenSearch Service 7 min read
- Amazon Quick (Quick Sight) 4 min read
- Amazon Redshift 7 min read
Application Integration 7 tutorials
AWS Cost Management 5 tutorials
Compute 9 tutorials
Containers 7 tutorials
Database 10 tutorials
Developer Tools 1 tutorial
Front-End Web and Mobile 4 tutorials
Machine Learning 9 tutorials
Management and Governance 19 tutorials
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Management and governance services: choosing the right one 3 min read- AWS Auto Scaling 3 min read
- AWS CLI 3 min read
- AWS CloudFormation 7 min read
- AWS CloudTrail 6 min read
- Amazon CloudWatch 7 min read
- AWS Compute Optimizer 2 min read
- AWS Config 5 min read
- AWS Control Tower 5 min read
- AWS Health Dashboard 3 min read
- AWS License Manager 3 min read
- Amazon Managed Grafana 2 min read
- Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus 3 min read
- AWS Management Console 2 min read
- AWS Organizations 6 min read
- AWS Service Catalog 4 min read
- AWS Systems Manager 7 min read
- AWS Trusted Advisor 3 min read
- AWS Well-Architected Tool 2 min read
Media Services 3 tutorials
Migration and Transfer 6 tutorials
Networking and Content Delivery 12 tutorials
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Networking and content delivery services: choosing the right one 3 min readSecurity, Identity, and Compliance 22 tutorials
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Security, identity, and compliance services: choosing the right one 4 min read- AWS Artifact 2 min read
- AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) 3 min read
- AWS CloudHSM 4 min read
- Amazon Cognito 4 min read
- Amazon Detective 2 min read
- AWS Directory Service 4 min read
- AWS Firewall Manager 3 min read
- Amazon GuardDuty 4 min read
- AWS IAM Identity Center 3 min read
- Amazon Inspector 3 min read
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS) 6 min read
- Amazon Macie 3 min read
- AWS Network Firewall 4 min read
- AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) 3 min read
- AWS Secrets Manager 4 min read
- AWS Security Hub 3 min read
- AWS Shield 3 min read
- AWS WAF 4 min read
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) 6 min read
Serverless 3 tutorials
Sources
Official exam information was last checked on , and the list of in-scope services on . Exam details can change, so confirm them on the official pages before booking.