AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) Exam Guide

Content Domains and Weightings:

Domain 1: Design Secure Architectures (30% of scored content)
Domain 2: Design Resilient Architectures (26% of scored content)
Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures (24% of scored content)
Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures (20% of scored content)

Domain 1: Design Secure Architectures

  • Design secure access to AWS resources
  • Design secure workloads and applications
  • Determine appropriate data security controls

Domain 2: Design Resilient Architectures

  • Design scalable and loosely coupled architectures
  • Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures

Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures

  • Determine high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions
  • Design high-performing and elastic compute solutions
  • Determine high-performing database solutions
  • Determine high-performing and/or scalable network architecture
  • Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions

Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

  • Design cost-optimized storage solutions
  • Design cost-optimized compute solutions
  • Design cost-optimized database solutions
  • Design cost-optimized network architectures
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