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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

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Track at a glance

Exam code: SAA-C03
Version: SAA-C03
Level: Associate
Blueprint domains: 4
Lessons: 14
Original practice questions: 278
Flashcards: 109
Last reviewed: 2026-07-14
Next scheduled review: 2026-10-14

Blueprint facts are re-verified against the official exam guide on the review schedule above.

Exam blueprint

Domains & weights

Every lesson and question is mapped to a domain and objective below, and every attempt records the exam version it was answered under.

Domain 1: Design Secure Architectures

30% of exam

Published weight 30%. Secure access to AWS resources (IAM, federation, multi-account), secure workloads and applications (VPC security, edge protection, secure connectivity), and data security controls (encryption, key management, backups, compliance).

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

Domain 2: Design Resilient Architectures

26% of exam

Published weight 26%. Scalable and loosely coupled architectures (microservices, event-driven, serverless, containers, queuing) and highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures (multi-AZ/Region, DR strategies, failover, durability).

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

Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures

24% of exam

Published weight 24%. High-performing storage, elastic compute, database, network architectures, and data ingestion/transformation solutions that meet performance requirements and scale.

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 architectures
Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions

Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

20% of exam

Published weight 20%. Cost-optimized storage, compute, database, and network architectures using AWS cost-management tools, purchasing options, tiering, lifecycle policies, and right-sizing.

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

Source & provenance

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) exam guide: official source (retrieved 2026-07-14)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate: official source (retrieved 2026-07-14)

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