AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate

Exam cost

$150 USD (historical estimate)

Questions · time · passing score

65 questions (50 scored, 15 unscored); 130 minutes time limit; Multiple choice and multiple response question types; Passing score of 720 (on a scaled score of 100-1,000)

Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites for the SAA-C03 exam. However, AWS recommends that candidates have at least one year of hands-on experience designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS. Familiarity with a wide range of AWS services and the AWS Well-Architected Framework is also recommended.

Estimated salary premium

18–18% (historical estimate)

Renewal requirements

3-year cycle · CPE/CEU requirement not verified

Difficulty

Not rated

Domains covered

• ** Design resilient architectures
• Design high-performing architectures
• Design secure applications and architectures
• Design cost-optimized architectures
• Define operationally excellent architectures
• Design and implement solutions using a wide range of AWS services
• Migrate complex
• multi-tier applications on AWS
• Implement cost-control mechanisms
• Select the appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements
• Implement and manage billing and cost optimization on AWS
• Understand the AWS global infrastructure

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