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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) practice exam and study path

A free, timed 75-question SAP-C02 practice exam — 180 minutes, the same length as the real exam, scored by domain, with every option explained after you submit. Also 175 practice questions you can check one at a time, a page for every task in the exam guide, and a study path. No sign-up.

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Architecture at organization scale: multi-account designs, new solutions, improving what already runs, and migrating and modernizing workloads.

The exam

Exam code
SAP-C02
Questions
75 questions (65 scored)
Time
180 minutes
Passing score
750 of 1,000 (scaled)
Exam fee
$300 (USD)
Question types
multiple choice, multiple response
Last exam day
Nov 16, 2026
Next version
SAP-C03, registration from Oct 27, 2026

SAP-C03 replaces this exam: registration opens on October 27, 2026, and SAP-C02 can be taken until November 16, 2026. Our questions follow the SAP-C02 guide until the SAP-C03 guide is published; the update is included in the package.

From AWS's certification page and exam guide, checked Oct 10, 2026. The exam is scored as a whole (compensatory): there is no pass mark per domain.

Domains and weights

  • Domain 1: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity

    26%

  • Domain 2: Design for New Solutions

    29%

  • Domain 3: Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

    25%

  • Domain 4: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization

    20%

On our roadmap this comes after Solutions Architect - Associate. See the whole roadmap.

Practice

175 original practice questions, every option explained with the AWS documentation page that proves it. Free, no sign-up; progress stays on this device.

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Solutions Architect - Professional exam pack

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  • Every paid SAP-C02 practice exam, timed, with every option explained
  • The next version of this exam included when it changes
  • Lifetime access — one payment, no subscription
  • 14-day refund, no conditions
  • 14-day refund, no conditions: ask within 14 days of buying and you get the whole payment back.
  • No pass guarantee. These are practice exams written by us from the exam guide and the AWS documentation; a score here does not predict your result on the real exam.

Study path

One module per exam domain. Lessons that already exist on BytePatterns are linked; the rest are being written.

  1. Module 1: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity

    1. 1Connecting many VPCs: Transit Gateway, peering, PrivateLink and shared VPCsTask 1.1

      Partly covered by: VPC: Subnets, NAT & Firewalls

    2. 2Hybrid networks: Direct Connect gateways, Site-to-Site VPN backup and BGP routingTask 1.1

      Partly covered by: Hybrid Networking & DNS

    3. 3Hybrid DNS with Route 53 VPC Resolver endpoints and rules shared across accountsTask 1.1

      Partly covered by: Hybrid Networking & DNS

    4. 4Tracing a flow: VPC Flow Logs, Reachability Analyzer and Network Access AnalyzerTask 1.1

      Lesson coming

    5. 5Cross-account access, IAM Identity Center with an external identity provider, and ABACTask 1.2

      Partly covered by: Shared Responsibility & IAM

    6. 6Keys and certificates across accounts: KMS key policies, multi-Region keys, Private CATask 1.2

      Partly covered by: KMS, Envelope Encryption & Private CA

    7. 7Central security findings and audit: organization trails, Security Hub CSPM, GuardDuty and DetectiveTask 1.2, 1.4

      Lesson coming

    8. 8RTO and RPO: backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby, multi-site and Elastic Disaster RecoveryTask 1.3

      Partly covered by: Disaster Recovery: RPO & RTO

    9. 9Recovering automatically: health checks, Auto Scaling, Multi-AZ and scale-up versus scale-outTask 1.3

      Partly covered by: EC2, Auto Scaling & Load Balancers, Vertical vs Horizontal Scaling, Database Replication

    10. 10Organizations, OUs, SCPs and RCPs, Control Tower and delegated administratorsTask 1.4

      Partly covered by: Organizations, SCPs & Control Tower

    11. 11Sharing resources with AWS RAM and gathering logs and events in one accountTask 1.4

      Partly covered by: CloudWatch, Alarms & X-Ray

    12. 12Cost visibility across accounts: tags, cost categories, budgets, anomaly detection and shared discountsTask 1.5

      Partly covered by: AWS Cost Levers

  2. Module 2: Design for New Solutions

    1. 13Infrastructure as code at scale: CloudFormation StackSets, Service Catalog and change setsTask 2.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 14Release strategies: blue/green, canary and rolling with CodeDeploy, ECS and LambdaTask 2.1

      Partly covered by: Lambda & Event-Driven Design, Scheduling & Rolling Updates

    3. 15Business continuity by design: cross-Region replication, Aurora global databases, DynamoDB global tablesTask 2.2

      Partly covered by: Database Replication, Consistency and CAP, Disaster Recovery: RPO & RTO

    4. 16Automated, cross-Region backup with AWS Backup and tested recoveryTask 2.2

      Partly covered by: Disaster Recovery: RPO & RTO

    5. 17Security from requirements: least privilege, endpoints, encryption and network flowsTask 2.3

      Partly covered by: Shared Responsibility & IAM, VPC: Subnets, NAT & Firewalls, KMS, Envelope Encryption & Private CA

    6. 18Protecting large web applications: Shield Advanced, WAF, CloudFront and rate limitsTask 2.3

      Partly covered by: CloudFront & Caching Layers, Rate Limiting

    7. 19Patch compliance with Systems Manager Patch ManagerTask 2.3, 3.2

      Lesson coming

    8. 20Reliability patterns: loose coupling with SQS, SNS, EventBridge and Step FunctionsTask 2.4

      Partly covered by: SQS vs SNS vs EventBridge, Message Queues

    9. 21Multi-Region active-active and Route 53 routing policiesTask 2.4, 2.2

      Partly covered by: Load Balancing, Consistency Models, Disaster Recovery: RPO & RTO

    10. 22Service quotas as a design constraintTask 2.4, 3.4

      Lesson coming

    11. 23Performance at scale: purpose-built databases, caching, buffering and replicasTask 2.5

      Partly covered by: RDS vs DynamoDB, Caching, SQL vs NoSQL, Database Sharding

    12. 24Choosing compute and storage for the access patternTask 2.5

      Partly covered by: ECS vs EKS vs Fargate, S3: Consistency, Classes, Lifecycle

    13. 25Cost by design: pricing models, storage tiers and data transfer pathsTask 2.6

      Partly covered by: AWS Cost Levers, S3: Consistency, Classes, Lifecycle

    14. 26Putting it together: design a system on AWSTask 2.4, 2.5, 2.6

      Partly covered by: Design a System on AWS

  3. Module 3: Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

    1. 27Observability that finds problems: CloudWatch, X-Ray and centralized logsTask 3.1

      Partly covered by: CloudWatch, Alarms & X-Ray, Observability Basics, Tracing a Request

    2. 28Automation and remediation: EventBridge, Systems Manager Automation and Config remediationTask 3.1, 3.2

      Lesson coming

    3. 29Improving deployments and rehearsing failure with AWS Fault Injection ServiceTask 3.1

      Lesson coming

    4. 30Secrets, least privilege audits and traceability: Secrets Manager, Access Analyzer, CloudTrailTask 3.2

      Lesson coming

    5. 31Finding bottlenecks: metrics, SLAs, caching and edge servicesTask 3.3

      Partly covered by: CloudFront & Caching Layers, Content Delivery Networks, Caching

    6. 32Placement groups, instance fleets and moving to managed servicesTask 3.3

      Lesson coming

    7. 33Removing single points of failure and adding self-healingTask 3.4

      Partly covered by: EC2, Auto Scaling & Load Balancers, Database Replication

    8. 34Cost cleanup: idle resources, rightsizing, Spot, Savings Plans and data transferTask 3.5

      Partly covered by: AWS Cost Levers

    9. 35Billing alarms, cost allocation tags and the Cost and Usage ReportTask 3.5

      Lesson coming

  4. Module 4: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization

    1. 36Portfolio assessment, the seven migration strategies, TCO and wave planningTask 4.1

      Partly covered by: Migration: The 7 Rs, TCO & Waves

    2. 37Moving servers and databases: AWS Transform MGN, AWS DMS and schema conversionTask 4.2

      Lesson coming

    3. 38Moving data: DataSync, Transfer Family, offline transfer and the network to carry itTask 4.2

      Partly covered by: Moving Data Into AWS, Hybrid Networking & DNS

    4. 39Landing the migrated workload: compute, containers, storage and database choicesTask 4.3

      Partly covered by: ECS vs EKS vs Fargate, RDS vs DynamoDB, Containers vs VMs

    5. 40Modernizing: decoupling, serverless and event-driven designsTask 4.4

      Partly covered by: Lambda & Event-Driven Design, SQS vs SNS vs EventBridge, Message Queues

    6. 41Purpose-built databases after the move: DynamoDB, Aurora Serverless and ElastiCacheTask 4.4

      Partly covered by: RDS vs DynamoDB, Caching

Every task in the exam guide

The exam guide splits each domain into task statements. Each one has a page with a short summary, the lessons that teach it and open sample questions.

Domain 1: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity

Domain 2: Design for New Solutions

Domain 3: Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

Domain 4: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization

How these questions are made

  • Written by us from the exam guide's task statements and the AWS documentation — never from real exam content.
  • Every option carries its own explanation and a link to the AWS page that proves it.
  • A question enters a timed exam only after an independent check; until then it is a practice question.
  • Results are a plain percentage, per domain too — not an imitation of AWS's scaled score.

Questions about the SAP-C02 practice exam

Is the SAP-C02 practice exam free?
Yes. The full practice exam (75 questions, 180 minutes) is free with no sign-up, and so are the 175 practice questions, the task pages and the study path. Your attempts are saved in this browser, on this device.
How many questions does it have, and is it timed?
75 questions in 180 minutes: the same number of questions and the same time as the real SAP-C02 exam. When the time runs out, the exam is submitted as it stands, and unanswered questions count as wrong.
Are the answers explained?
After you submit, not during: like the real exam, the timed exam gives no feedback until the end. Then you get your score overall and per exam domain, and every question with each option explained and a link to the AWS documentation page behind it. In practice mode an answer is explained as soon as you check it.
What does the Solutions Architect - Professional exam pack add?
3 more timed practice exams (Practice exam 1: 75 questions, 180 minutes; Practice exam 2: 75 questions, 180 minutes; Practice exam 3: 75 questions, 180 minutes), each scored and explained the same way, and the next version of this exam when it changes. One payment, lifetime access, no subscription. Everything above stays free. See the pack.
Can I get a refund?
Yes, with no conditions: ask within 14 days of buying and you get the whole payment back. The details are in the terms.
Is this an official AWS practice exam?
No. BytePatterns is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Amazon Web Services. Every question is written by us from the public exam guide and the AWS documentation, never from real exam content, and a score here does not predict your result on the real exam. AWS lists its own preparation resources on its certification page.