# Comparison of SOA-C02 and SOA-C03
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**Topics**
+ [Side-by-side comparison](#sysops-administrator-associate-03-comparison-side-by-side)
+ [Additions of content for SOA-C03](#sysops-administrator-associate-03-comparison-additions)
+ [Deletions of content for SOA-C03](#sysops-administrator-associate-03-comparison-deletions)
+ [Recategorizations of content for SOA-C03](#sysops-administrator-associate-03-comparison-recategorizations)

## Side-by-side comparison
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The following table shows the domains and the percentage of scored questions in each domain for the SOA-C02 exam (in use until September 29, 2025) and the SOA-C03 exam (in use beginning September 30, 2025).


**Side-by-side comparison of SOA-C02 and SOA-C03**  

| SOA-C02 Domain | SOA-C03 Content Domain | 
| --- | --- | 
| Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation (20%) | Content Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization (22%) | 
| Domain 2: Reliability and Business Continuity (16%) | Content Domain 2: Reliability and Business Continuity (22%) | 
| Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation (18%) | Content Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation (22%) | 
| Domain 4: Security and Compliance (16%) | Content Domain 4: Security and Compliance (16%) | 
| Domain 5: Networking and Content Delivery (18%) | Content Domain 5: Networking and Content Delivery (18%) | 
| Domain 6: Cost and Performance Optimization (12%) |  | 

## Additions of content for SOA-C03
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In Task 1.1, the following content was added:
+ Configure and manage the CloudWatch agent to collect metrics and logs from EC2 instances, Amazon ECS clusters, or Amazon EKS clusters.

In Task 3.1, the following content was added:
+ Create and manage stacks of resources by using CloudFormation and the AWS CDK.

In Task 4.1, the following content was added:
+ Enforce compliance requirements (for example, Region and service selections).

In Task 5.3, the following content was added:
+ Configure and analyze CloudWatch network monitoring services.

## Deletions of content for SOA-C03
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In Task 5.2, the following content was removed:
+ Configure S3 static website hosting.

## Recategorizations of content for SOA-C03
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In Task 4.2, VPNs were moved to Task 5.1.

Tasks 6.1 and 6.2 in SOA-C02 were moved to Task 1.3 in SOA-C03.