AWS Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C02) Practice

How the SAP-C02 exam is structured

AWS Solutions Architect Professional is a AWS certification with approximately 75 questions in 180 minutes. The table below shows the exam weighting published for each domain, so you can decide where to spend your study time instead of working through the syllabus in order.

Domain	Exam weight	What it covers
Design for New Solutions	29%	Design comprehensive solutions prioritizing security, reliability, performance, and cost
Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity	26%	Design multi-account AWS environments and complex hybrid connectivity
Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions	25%	Improve and optimize existing AWS solutions
Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization	20%	Design and implement migration and modernization strategies

A passing study plan usually trails the weighting: spend the most sessions on Design for New Solutions (29%), then check the next domain down before moving on. If your accuracy on a high-weight domain stays under 80%, more practice there is worth more than another pass at a low-weight topic.

Worked sample SAP-C02 questions

These questions come from the AWS Solutions Architect Professional practice bank. Read the rationale even when you answer correctly — the explanation is usually where the exam technique lives.

Sample question 1 — Design for New Solutions

A modernization delivery group supporting a rapidly growing global workload must tolerate an Availability Zone failure without interrupting a public application. Which specific AWS service or approach is the right choice for this architecture?

A. Place an Application Load Balancer in multiple Availability Zones and run Auto Scaling instances across those zones.
B. Use AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery to continuously replicate servers and launch recovery instances when needed.
C. Store credentials in AWS Secrets Manager and enable rotation using a supported rotation function.
D. Run Amazon ECS tasks in private subnets behind an internal or internet-facing load balancer as required.

Answer: A. Option A is correct: "Place an Application Load Balancer in multiple Availability Zones and run Auto Scaling instances across those zones." This is the AWS-recommended way to address Highly available web tier, which is exactly what the scenario requires. Option C is incorrect because Selecting Secrets rotation architecture would apply "Store credentials in AWS Secrets Manager and enable rotation using a…", which fits a different production need than the one above. Option B is incorrect because Disaster recovery replication addresses a team that must provide rapid recovery for an existing server estate after a…, not the failure mode this stem describes for Highly available web tier. Option D is incorrect because Private container platform is the wrong control here — it is built for a team that must run containerized services without assigning public IP…, not this scenario's constraint.

Sample question 2 — Design for New Solutions

A gaming company is launching a player-profile service that must remain writable in both us-east-1 and eu-west-1 even if one Region becomes unavailable. The team needs low-latency reads and writes in each Region, automatic conflict resolution, and no manual failover steps. The profile data is key-value with a stable partition key. Which data store should the solutions architect recommend?

A. Amazon S3 with Cross-Region Replication and DynamoDB Accelerator in front of the bucket.
B. Amazon DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region writes enabled for the profile table.
C. Amazon Aurora Global Database with a writer in each Region and managed conflict resolution.
D. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with cross-Region read replicas and automated promotion.

Answer: B. Option B is correct because DynamoDB global tables support multi-Region active-active writes with last-writer-wins conflict resolution and low-latency access in every replicated Region. Option C is incorrect because Aurora Global Database permits only a single writer Region, so writes in the secondary Region require a promotion that is not automatic. Option D is incorrect because RDS read replicas are read-only and cross-Region promotion is a manual, disruptive operation rather than continuous multi-Region write capability. Option A is incorrect because S3 Cross-Region Replication is asynchronous object replication and DAX is a read cache, so neither provides writable key-value access with conflict resolution.

Sample question 3 — Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity

A company's security team must prevent any member account in AWS Organizations from launching resources outside two approved Regions, and it must make the restriction impossible for individual account administrators to remove. The company still needs those administrators to manage everything inside the approved Regions. Which solution meets these requirements?

A. Deploy AWS Config rules that evaluate resources in unapproved Regions and invoke an automated remediation action when a violation is found.
B. Apply a permissions boundary to each member account that limits the actions an administrator can grant, so those accounts cannot create resources in unapproved Regions.
C. Attach a service control policy to the organization so it denies unapproved-Region actions across every member account and cannot be removed by account administrators.
D. Create an IAM role in each member account with an inline policy that denies the unwanted actions and require all administrators to use that role.

Answer: C. Option C is correct. A service control policy attached to the organization inherits to every member account and denies actions outside the approved Regions, and because service control policies sit above account-level IAM no account administrator can remove or change it. Option B is incorrect because a permissions boundary only limits what an identity-based policy can grant and is managed by the account's own administrators, so it can be edited away. Option D is incorrect because requiring administrators to assume a single IAM role is a local control that an account administrator can modify, so it is not durable. Option A is incorrect because AWS Config detects violations after resources are created and remediates them reactively rather than preventing them from being launched.

How to use this SAP-C02 practice set

Answer the 10 free questions without notes. Guessing is more useful than looking the answer up — the wrong answers tell you which domain to revisit.

Read every explanation, including the ones you got right. Note the reasoning for each distractor, not just the correct option.

Drill by domain, starting with Design for New Solutions (29%), then take a mixed set so you practise switching between topics.

Finish with a timed practice exam. Aim to be consistently above the passing score before you book the real SAP-C02 exam.

SAP-C02 practice questions FAQ

How many free SAP-C02 practice questions can I try?

You can answer 10 SAP-C02 practice questions free without creating an account. Each one is graded instantly with a written explanation. A free account keeps your progress, and the full bank (300+ questions) unlocks with a subscription.

What topics does the SAP-C02 exam cover?

The SAP-C02 exam is organised into 4 domains: Design for New Solutions (29%), Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity (26%), Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions (25%), Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization (20%). The weighting above shows how much of the exam each domain represents, so budget study time in the same proportion.

How long is the SAP-C02 exam and how is it scored?

The SAP-C02 exam has approximately 75 questions in 180 minutes, with a passing score of 750. Practice sets here are scored the same way as the real exam so you can see whether you are above or below the line before test day.

How should I start studying for AWS Solutions Architect Professional?

Start with Design for New Solutions, the highest-weighted domain, then work down the list. Answer a mixed set after each domain pass — mixing domains forces you to identify what a question is asking before recalling the content, which is what the real exam does.

Are these the same questions that appear on the real SAP-C02 exam?

No. These are original practice questions written against the published SAP-C02 exam objectives. They mirror the style, difficulty, and domain weighting of the real exam, but the actual exam content is confidential and is not reproduced here.

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