Volume I Chapter SAP-C02 foundational tier
Solutions Architect - Professional
Editor's note — A study companion for the Solutions Architect - Professional exam — every domain rebuilt from scratch, with worked practice questions and an exam-grade timed simulation.
75 questions 180 minutes threshold 750/1000 4 domains official guide
Table of Contents
I. Organizational Complexity 26% weight
Multi-Account Governance with AWS Organizations and Control Tower Transit Gateway and Hybrid Network Architecture at Scale Hybrid DNS with Route 53 Resolver and On-Premises Integration AWS PrivateLink and VPC Endpoint Architecture Cross-Account Security Controls and Identity Federation IAM Identity Center and Enterprise Identity Federation Cost Optimization and Visibility in Multi-Account Environments II. New Solutions 29% weight
CI/CD Pipelines and IaC Deployment Strategies Disaster Recovery Architecture: RTO/RPO-Driven Design Security Architecture for Greenfield Solutions Reliability Architecture: Multi-AZ, Multi-Region, and Loose Coupling Performance Architecture: Caching, Storage, and Purpose-Built Databases Event-Driven and Serverless Architecture Design Container Architecture: ECS, EKS, and Fargate at Scale Data Analytics and Streaming Architecture at Scale Cost Architecture for New Greenfield Solutions III. Continuous Improvement 25% weight
Improving Operational Excellence in Existing Systems Improving Security Posture of Existing Architectures Performance Diagnosis and Remediation for Existing Systems Reliability Remediation: Eliminating SPOFs in Existing Architectures Cost Optimization for Existing Production Workloads Centralized Logging, Observability, and Encryption Architecture IV. Migration Modernization 20% weight
Migration Assessment, 7Rs Strategy, and Wave Planning Migration Tooling: Data Transfer, Application Migration, and Database Migration Migration Target Architecture: Compute, Storage, and Database Selection Application Modernization: Serverless, Containers, and Decoupling Encryption, Key Management, and Certificate Architecture