AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate AWS infrastructure decisions compound over years—architects who understand service selection, cost optimization, and multi-AZ resilience become irreplaceable to teams managing mission-critical workloads. This credential signals readiness for mid-level roles where your choices directly shape organizational cloud strategy and spending.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Certification Exam
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate: exam domains and weightings
These are the scored areas the Amazon Web Services exam guide publishes for this exam, with the share of the exam each one carries. Weight your revision the same way — the largest domain below is worth several times the smallest.
| Exam domain | Share of exam |
|---|---|
| Design Secure Architectures | 30% |
| Design Resilient Architectures | 26% |
| Design High-Performing Architectures | 24% |
| Design Cost-Optimized Architectures | 20% |
Exam version: SAA-C03 · Length: 65 questions · Time: 130 minutes · Passing score: 720 / 1000
Weightings are taken from the official Amazon Web Services exam guide — check the current version here, as exam bodies revise them.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate: questions candidates ask
How long do you get per question in SAA-C03?
The Amazon Web Services guide allows 130 minutes for 65 questions, which works out at roughly 2 minutes a question if you answer at an even pace. Timed practice matters more on this one than on an untimed take-home paper.
How does SAA-C03 differ from the other Amazon Web Services exams here?
We also list AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (75 questions, pass mark 750 / 1000) and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (65 questions, pass mark 700 / 1000) from Amazon Web Services. This one is 65 questions and a pass mark of 720 / 1000, and its scored areas are the ones in the table above - they do not overlap exam for exam, so material for one is not a substitute for the other.
Which version of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate outline is this written against?
The SAA-C03 outline published by Amazon Web Services. Exam bodies retire and renumber outlines, so check the current one on the Amazon Web Services exam page before you book.
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