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.

Introduction

The exam also validates a candidate's ability to complete the following tasks within the scope of the AWS Well-Architected Framework:

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.

Refer to the Appendix for 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.

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 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:

Exam content

Response types

The exam contains one or more of the following question types:

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 them for future use as scored questions. The unscored questions are not identified on the exam.

Exam results

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.

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 is available to help you prepare for the exam.

The exam has the following content domains and weightings:

Service References

The following sections provide detailed information about AWS services, technologies, and concepts relevant to this certification exam:

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