AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) Practice Tests

Preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) exam? These SAA-C03 practice tests give you two full-length mock exams built around the scenario-style questions the exam is known for: choosing the right service, the right configuration and the right trade-off between security, resilience, performance and cost.

What you get

• 2 full mock exams with 65 questions each

• 130 exam-style questions in total, written as architecture scenarios

• Single-answer and multiple-answer questions, with multiple-answer items clearly marked (for example, Select TWO)

• Every option explained, so you learn from the distractors as well as the correct answer

• A Learn more link to the relevant AWS documentation in every overall explanation

• Questions grouped by exam domain, so your results show where to focus

Why practise with exam-style questions?

SAA-C03 rarely asks you to recall a fact. It describes a business requirement and asks which design meets it best: the most secure, the most available, the lowest operational overhead or the most cost-effective. Several options are usually workable, and only one fits every constraint. Practising with scenarios trains you to read the requirement carefully, spot the keyword that rules options out and choose with confidence.

Exam domains covered

• Design Secure Architectures – secure access to AWS resources with IAM, IAM Identity Center and multi-account controls, secure workloads and VPC design, and data security controls such as AWS KMS encryption, key policies and backups

• Design Resilient Architectures – scalable, loosely coupled designs with Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, AWS Lambda, containers and load balancing, plus highly available and fault-tolerant architectures and disaster recovery strategies

• Design High-Performing Architectures – high-performing storage, compute, database and network solutions, caching, and data ingestion and transformation

• Design Cost-Optimized Architectures – cost-optimized storage, compute, database and network architectures, purchasing options and storage tiering

How to use the practice exams

1. Take each exam in one sitting. Allow 130 minutes and work without notes.

2. Review every explanation. Read the explanations for the questions you got right as well as those you got wrong.

3. Note your weak domains. Keep a short list of the topics and services where you slipped.

4. Revisit the material. Use the Learn more links and the AWS documentation for those topics.

5. Move on to the next exam. Work through both exams before you repeat either.

6. Retake the exams until you score 100% on all of them on your own and can explain why each answer is right, not just which option it is.

Who this course is for

Cloud engineers, developers, system administrators, solutions architects and IT professionals preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam, or anyone who designs workloads on AWS and wants to test their architectural judgement.

Ready to test yourself?

Start with Practice Test 1, read every explanation and use your results to decide what to revise next. Enroll now and begin your preparation.