The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam (SAP-C02) is an advanced level exam for professionals who want to validate their expertise in designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS. The exam covers the following domains:
- Design for Organizational Complexity
- Determine cross-account authentication and access strategy for complex organizations
- Determine how to design networks for complex organizations
- Determine how to design a multi-region deployment for complex organizations
- Design for New Solutions
- Determine security requirements and controls when designing and implementing a solution
- Determine a solution design and implementation strategy to meet reliability requirements
- Determine a solution design to ensure business continuity
- Determine a solution design to meet performance objectives
- Determine a deployment strategy to meet business requirements
- Migration Planning
- Select existing workloads and processes for potential migration to the cloud
- Select the appropriate AWS services to meet a migration objective
- Determine a migration plan from existing systems to AWS
- Cost Control
- Determine cost-effective solutions for an organization
- Determine how to design cost-optimized storage
- Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions
- Troubleshoot solution architectures
- Determine a strategy to improve an existing solution for operational excellence
Overall, the exam requires a deep understanding of AWS services, architectures, and best practices. Candidates are expected to have experience designing and deploying complex and scalable systems on AWS, as well as experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and VPC.
Prereuisites
To take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam (SAP-C02), candidates must have one of the following certifications:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
In addition, AWS recommends that candidates have two or more years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS.
