- Maps to AWS Domain 1, Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity (26% of scored content on SAP-C02).
- Evaluate connectivity options for multiple VPCs and for on-premises, co-location, and cloud integration, including AWS Direct Connect, AWS VPN, and transitive routing.
- Design hybrid DNS with Amazon Route 53 Resolver and on-premises DNS integration.
- Plan network segmentation, subnetting, IP addressing, and Region and Availability Zone selection based on network and latency requirements.
- Troubleshoot traffic flows with AWS tools and use service endpoints for service integrations.
AWS Certification Training Course
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Certification Training Course
Prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam with live instruction built around the AWS exam guide. The course is for architects who already design on AWS and now need to make multi-account, hybrid, and migration decisions for a whole organization.
Course focus: Design for organizational complexity, design for new solutions, continuous improvement of existing solutions, and workload migration and modernization, mapped to the four domains in the AWS SAP-C02 exam guide, plus the emerging topics and SAP-C03 changes AWS has published.
Course Overview
Make architecture decisions across accounts, Regions, and hybrid networks.
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Certification Training Course with Accumentum prepares experienced architects for the professional level AWS exam. AWS says the certification helps certified individuals show advanced knowledge and skills in providing complex solutions to complex problems, optimizing security, cost, and performance, and automating manual processes.
This is not an entry point to AWS. The AWS exam guide describes the target candidate as someone with 2 or more years of experience using AWS services to design and implement cloud solutions, who can evaluate application requirements, make architectural recommendations, and guide design across multiple applications and projects in a complex organization.
Nine of the ten modules follow the four domains in the SAP-C02 exam guide: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity (26%), Design for New Solutions (29%), Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions (25%), and Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization (20%). The last module covers the emerging topics AWS lists in the SAP-C02 guide and the changes AWS has announced for SAP-C03.
AWS is updating this exam. Registration for SAP-C03 opens October 27, 2026, and AWS says the full SAP-C03 exam guide will be available that day. SAP-C02 retires in November 2026, so check the AWS exam page for the last test date and plan your exam version with your instructor before you register.
Course Objectives
Build SAP-C02 exam readiness and professional level AWS architecture skills.
01
Design for organizational complexity
Plan network connectivity across many VPCs and on-premises sites, prescribe security controls across accounts, and build a multi-account governance model with AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower.
02
Design new solutions
Choose deployment, business continuity, security, reliability, performance, and cost strategies for new workloads based on business requirements and RTO and RPO targets.
03
Improve existing solutions
Find single points of failure, performance bottlenecks, gaps in least privilege, and unused resources in running environments, and recommend the fix.
04
Migrate and modernize workloads
Assess a portfolio against the 7Rs, pick the right transfer and migration tools, and choose compute, container, storage, database, and integration services for the target architecture.
Who Should Attend
- Solutions architects with two or more years of hands-on AWS design work who are ready for the professional level exam.
- Cloud architects who own multi-account governance, landing zones, or hybrid connectivity for their organization.
- Senior engineers and technical leads who review architecture across several applications and teams.
- Architects who lead or plan migrations from on-premises data centers to AWS.
Prerequisites
- AWS recommends 2 or more years of experience using AWS services to design and implement cloud solutions before you take this exam.
- The course assumes you already work at the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate level, including VPC design, IAM, compute, storage, and database services.
- AWS lists frontend development for mobile apps, 12-factor app methodology, and in-depth knowledge of operating systems as out of scope for the exam, so the course does not spend time on them.
- Because SAP-C03 replaces SAP-C02 in November 2026, decide which version you will sit before you schedule. The AWS exam page has the current dates.
Pathway Map
The AWS Solutions Architect Professional training course covers all four SAP-C02 domains.
Nine modules follow the SAP-C02 domains and their published weights. The tenth covers the emerging topics in the SAP-C02 guide and the changes AWS has announced for SAP-C03.
1
Network Connectivity Strategies
2
Security Controls and Multi-Account Governance
3
Resilience, Disaster Recovery, and Cost Visibility
4
Deployment Strategy and Business Continuity
5
Security and Reliability for New Solutions
6
Performance and Cost for New Solutions
7
Improving Operational Excellence and Security
8
Improving Performance, Reliability, and Cost
9
Workload Migration and Modernization
10
Emerging Topics and the SAP-C03 Update
Course Content
- Maps to AWS Domain 1, Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity (26% of scored content on SAP-C02).
- Evaluate cross-account access management with IAM and AWS IAM Identity Center, and integrate third-party identity providers.
- Deploy encryption for data at rest and in transit with AWS KMS and AWS Certificate Manager.
- Build a strategy for centralized security event notifications and auditing with AWS CloudTrail, IAM Access Analyzer, AWS Security Hub, and Amazon Inspector.
- Choose an account structure, central logging approach, and governance model with AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower.
- Maps to AWS Domain 1, Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity (26% of scored content on SAP-C02).
- Design disaster recovery around RTO and RPO using backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby, multi-site, and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery.
- Build architectures that recover automatically from failure and choose between scale-up and scale-out.
- Monitor cost and usage with AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, AWS Trusted Advisor, and AWS Pricing Calculator.
- Build a tagging strategy that maps costs to business units, and explain how Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances change cost and performance.
- Maps to AWS Domain 2, Design for New Solutions (29% of scored content on SAP-C02).
- Design deployment strategies with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, change management, and AWS Systems Manager, with rollback built in.
- Adopt managed services to cut provisioning and patching work.
- Configure data and database replication and test disaster recovery.
- Architect automated, cost-effective backup that supports business continuity across Availability Zones or Regions.
- Maps to AWS Domain 2, Design for New Solutions (29% of scored content on SAP-C02).
- Specify IAM users and roles that follow least privilege, and define inbound and outbound flows with security groups and network ACLs.
- Develop attack mitigation for large-scale web applications with AWS Shield, AWS WAF, and Amazon GuardDuty.
- Design highly available, loosely coupled applications with multi-AZ and multi-Region patterns, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and AWS Step Functions.
- Apply Route 53 routing policies such as latency-based, geolocation, and simple routing, and plan for service quotas.
- Maps to AWS Domain 2, Design for New Solutions (29% of scored content on SAP-C02).
- Design large-scale, elastic architectures for different access patterns.
- Use caching, buffering, and replicas to meet performance objectives, and select purpose-built databases.
- Pick instance families and storage options, then plan rightsizing.
- Model data transfer costs, choose pricing models and storage tiers, and set controls for spend and usage awareness.
- Maps to AWS Domain 3, Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions (25% of scored content on SAP-C02).
- Choose logging and monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch, and set up alerting and automatic remediation.
- Evaluate deployment processes such as blue/green, rolling, and all-at-once, and find automation opportunities.
- Audit an environment for least privilege and review traceability of users and services.
- Improve secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager and Systems Manager, and design patch, backup, and remediation processes, including AWS Config rules.
- Maps to AWS Domain 3, Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions (25% of scored content on SAP-C02).
- Translate business requirements into measurable metrics, SLAs, and KPIs, and find performance bottlenecks.
- Use AWS Global Accelerator, Amazon CloudFront, placement groups, and auto scaling to improve performance.
- Remediate single points of failure and turn on data replication, self-healing, and elastic features.
- Analyze usage and AWS Cost and Usage Reports to find underused or unused resources, design billing alarms, and use tags for cost allocation.
- Maps to AWS Domain 4, Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization (20% of scored content on SAP-C02).
- Complete an application migration assessment, evaluate the seven common migration strategies (7Rs), and estimate total cost of ownership.
- Select transfer and migration tools such as AWS DataSync, AWS Transfer Family, AWS Snow Family, AWS Application Migration Service, AWS DMS, and AWS SCT, and secure them.
- Choose the target compute, container, storage, and database platforms, including Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, Amazon EFS, Amazon FSx, and Amazon DynamoDB.
- Find chances to decouple components, move to serverless with AWS Lambda, adopt purpose-built databases, and use Amazon EventBridge and other integration services.
- The SAP-C02 exam guide lists emerging topics that may appear as unscored pretest questions and do not affect your score.
- Those topics include content filtering and compliance controls for generative AI (for example Amazon Bedrock Guardrails), access controls for generative and agentic AI applications (for example AgentCore Identity), and human approval workflows for AI operations (for example AWS Step Functions).
- AWS says SAP-C03 adds generative and agentic AI design with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, resilience engineering with AWS Fault Injection Service and AWS Resilience Hub, cloud-native and DevSecOps patterns, data lakehouse architectures, and post-quantum cryptography in AWS KMS.
- The five SAP-C03 domains AWS has published are 1) Cloud-native architecture design and implementation, 2) Security, compliance, and governance, 3) Cost-optimized architecture design, 4) Resilience, migration, and business continuity, and 5) Operational excellence and automation.
Course Features
Built for experienced architects preparing for the SAP-C02 exam.
Instructor-Led Sessions
Live virtual sessions that work through architecture decisions across accounts, Regions, and hybrid networks.
Architecture Scenarios
Multi-requirement scenarios where you weigh cost, reliability, security, and migration effort against each other and defend the design you pick.
Domain-Mapped Materials
Study materials organized by the four SAP-C02 domains and their published weights, with notes on what AWS has announced for SAP-C03.
Exam Readiness Review
Review of the exam format, including multiple response items that need every correct answer, plus pacing for a 180 minute exam.
Certification Exam
About the AWS Solutions Architect Professional exam (SAP-C02 and SAP-C03)
AWS SAP-C02 Exam Readiness
Accumentum's course prepares experienced architects for the four SAP-C02 domains and reviews what AWS has announced for SAP-C03.
AWS says the SAP-C02 exam is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role, and that it validates advanced technical skills and experience in designing optimized AWS solutions based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
The exam has 75 questions and a 180 minute time limit. 65 questions affect your score. The other 10 are unscored, and AWS does not identify them on the exam. Questions are multiple choice (one correct response out of four) or multiple response (two or more correct responses out of five or more options, and you must select all of them to get credit). Unanswered questions are scored as incorrect, and there is no penalty for guessing.
Results are pass or fail on a scaled score of 100 to 1,000. The minimum passing score is 750. AWS uses a compensatory scoring model, so you need to pass the exam as a whole, not each section.
Domain weights on SAP-C02 are Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity 26%, Design for New Solutions 29%, Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions 25%, and Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization 20%.
You take the exam at a Pearson VUE testing center or as an online proctored exam. AWS offers it in English, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, and Spanish (Latin America). The certification is valid for 3 years. You can recertify by passing the latest version of the exam, and AWS also offers a way to maintain the certification for 1 more year through AWS Skill Builder.
AWS is replacing SAP-C02 with SAP-C03. Registration for SAP-C03 opens October 27, 2026, and SAP-C02 retires in November 2026. AWS says SAP-C03 keeps the 75 question, 180 minute format, adds content on generative and agentic AI, resilience engineering, and post-quantum cryptography, and moves to five domains. The full SAP-C03 exam guide will be published when registration opens. AWS also says a credential earned on SAP-C02 stays active through its original expiration date.
Accumentum is an independent training provider. AWS sets and changes exam rules, fees, and policies, so confirm current details on the AWS Certification website before you register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions we hear about SAP-C02, the SAP-C03 update, and how this course fits.
It is the professional level AWS certification for solutions architects. AWS says it helps certified individuals show advanced knowledge and skills in providing complex solutions to complex problems, optimizing security, cost, and performance, and automating manual processes.
For now. AWS has announced SAP-C03. Registration for SAP-C03 opens October 27, 2026, and SAP-C02 retires in November 2026. Check the AWS exam page for the exact last day to test on SAP-C02.
AWS says SAP-C03 moves to five domains and adds generative and agentic AI design with Amazon Bedrock, resilience engineering with AWS Fault Injection Service and AWS Resilience Hub, cloud-native and DevSecOps patterns, and post-quantum cryptography in AWS KMS. The full exam guide with task statements is due October 27, 2026.
The exam guide recommends 2 or more years of experience using AWS services to design and implement cloud solutions. AWS expects the target candidate to be able to evaluate application requirements, make architectural recommendations, and guide design across multiple applications and projects in a complex organization.
75 questions in 180 minutes. 65 are scored and 10 are unscored. Questions are multiple choice or multiple response, and multiple response questions need every correct answer to earn credit.
AWS reports results on a scaled score of 100 to 1,000, and the minimum passing score is 750. The scoring is compensatory, so you pass or fail on the exam as a whole.
At a Pearson VUE testing center or as an online proctored exam. AWS offers it in English, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, and Spanish (Latin America).
3 years. You can recertify by passing the latest version of the exam, or maintain the certification for 1 more year through AWS Skill Builder. See the AWS recertification page for the current options.
Solutions architects, cloud architects, and senior engineers who already design on AWS and want structured preparation for the professional level exam, especially people who own multi-account governance, hybrid networking, or migration work.
No. AWS awards the certification when you pass the exam. Accumentum is an independent training provider, and AWS sets the exam rules, fees, and policies.
Enrollment
Enroll in the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Certification Training Course with Accumentum.
Enroll in the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Certification Training Course with Accumentum to prepare for the professional level AWS architecture exam.
You will work through all four SAP-C02 domains with an instructor, practice multi-requirement architecture scenarios, and review what AWS has announced for SAP-C03 so you can pick the right version.
For course dates and enrollment help, visit Accumentum's registration page.
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