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Practise AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 across all 4 official exam domains — Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity, Design for New Solutions, Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions, Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization — with original exam-style questions, full explanations, and wrong-answer analysis. AWS certification exams usually test architecture trade-offs: service selection, resilience, cost, security, networking and operations. Courseiva helps you practise those decisions through original scenario-based questions.
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Key facts for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 exam.
Exam cost
$300 USD / ~£240
Duration
180 minutes
Question count
75 questions
Passing score
750 / 1000
Validity
3 years
Delivered by
Pearson VUE
Online proctored
Yes — available
Retake policy
14 days between attempts; third attempt requires 90-day wait
Question formats
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) is AWS's most prestigious architect certification, validating the ability to design and deploy dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS. The exam covers advanced architecture patterns including multi-account strategies with AWS Organizations, complex hybrid and multi-region designs, cost optimisation, migration strategies, and security governance at scale. It builds heavily on Associate-level knowledge and demands broad expertise across the entire AWS service catalogue.
Official prerequisite
None formal; AWS strongly recommends holding the AWS Solutions Architect – Associate certification and 2+ years of hands-on AWS experience.
Recommended experience
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate certification; deep knowledge across compute, storage, networking, databases, security, and cost management on AWS.
2+ years of hands-on AWS architecture experience; ideally already AWS Solutions Architect – Associate certified.
Should you skip this exam?
Those who have not yet passed the AWS Solutions Architect – Associate — start there first.
Courseiva study tip
Practise long, multi-constraint scenario questions. Master AWS Organizations, Control Tower, multi-region disaster recovery, and cost optimisation trade-offs. Use official practice exams and focus on elimination strategies for complex scenarios.
UK salary range
£80,000–£120,000
US salary range
$150,000–$200,000
Job roles that cite SAP-C02
What certification to take next
The SAP-C02 exam costs $300 USD (approximately £240 GBP).
A scaled score of 750 out of 1000 is required to pass.
There are 75 questions (multiple choice and multiple response) and you have 180 minutes to complete the exam.
It is widely considered the hardest AWS associate/professional path exam. Questions are scenario-heavy, long, and require you to weigh multiple valid architectural options across cost, resilience, and operational overhead.
The exam covers organisational complexity (AWS Organizations, SCP, Control Tower), new solutions design (multi-region, multi-account, microservices), migration planning, cost control, and continuous improvement of existing solutions.
It is valid for 3 years. You can renew by passing a qualifying recertification assessment or the same exam again.
AWS does not mandate it, but the vast majority of successful candidates hold the Associate certification. Attempting the Professional exam without Associate-level knowledge dramatically reduces your chance of passing.
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Data confidence: BuildingDerived from Courseiva's continuously updated practice dataset: 1,660 exam-style questions. Updated 2 July 2026.
Question difficulty mix
Average time per question: 95s
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Exam domains
official blueprint domains covered by the bank
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Questions
exam-style questions in the SAP-C02 bank
Practice modes
Choose a mode that matches your current study phase. Use topic practice early on and mock exams closer to your exam date.
All SAP-C02 Questions
Browse the full question bank organised by domain and difficulty.
Practice Test
Start a 20-question session with a full explanation after each answer.
Mock Exam
Simulate the real exam with a timed, full-length question set.
Quick 25
A 25-question warm-up — ideal for a short daily study session.
Flashcards
Reinforce key terms, commands, and protocol facts with flashcards.
Domain Practice
Focus exclusively on one exam domain to target your weakest area.
50-Question Set
Mid-length practice set covering all domains.
Exam guide
Start with a short practice session, review each missed answer, then return to the topics that caused mistakes.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 spans 4 official exam domains (Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity, Design for New Solutions, Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions, and more). Questions test whether you can apply each objective in a realistic scenario, not just recall a definition.
Related practice questions
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Practice directory
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Official blueprint
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Deep-dive questions
The most-searched SAP-C02 questions — each with a detailed explanation, worked example, and full answer breakdown.
Learn the concepts
16 book-style chapters cover every SAP-C02 objective in plain English. Read the theory here, then test it with practice questions.
Chapter 1
Designing Secure VPC Connectivity and Hybrid Networking
12 min read
Chapter 2
Multi-Account Strategies and AWS Organizations
12 min read
Chapter 3
Building Resilient and Highly Available Architectures
12 min read
Chapter 4
Cost Optimization and Governance at Scale
12 min read
Chapter 5
Network Architecture for Complex Organizations
12 min read
Chapter 6
Identity and Access Management at Scale
12 min read
Chapter 7
Data Protection and Encryption Strategies
12 min read
Chapter 8
Automating Operations with Infrastructure as Code
12 min read
Free study guide
The Courseiva SAP-C02 study guide covers exam format, the official domain blueprint with weights, a structured study plan, and domain-specific tips for each section. Use it alongside practice questions to build both conceptual depth and exam confidence.
Sample questions
Original exam-style questions — not copied from any exam or dump site. Open a question for the full answer breakdown.
A company is designing a new multi-tier web application on AWS. The application uses an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances for the web tier and an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB ins…
A company uses AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. The finance team needs to track costs by department, which are tagged with 'department' tags. However, some resources ar…
A company wants to provide its developers with access to a shared development environment in AWS. The developers are in different AWS accounts, and they need to assume an IAM role…
A company is using AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. The finance team wants to track costs by business unit. Each business unit has its own AWS account. The team needs a…
A company is using AWS Organizations and wants to centralize the management of Amazon EC2 instance security groups. The security team needs to enforce that certain ports are not op…
A company is designing a disaster recovery solution for a critical application running on EC2 with data in an Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance. The recovery time objective (RT…
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