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AWS Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) — Practice Questions and Mock Exam

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional covers architecture across accounts, workload improvement, migration and modernization.

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Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity1 / 5

A company has a multi-account AWS Organization with a central shared services account, a development account, and a production account. They want to implement a CI/CD pipeline where code is committed in the development account, built and tested in the shared services account, and deployed to the production account. The pipeline must use AWS CodePipeline and minimize cross-account credential management complexity. Which approach should the solutions architect recommend?

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Cross-account CI/CD pipelines in AWS Organizations use CodePipeline in a central shared services account with cross-account IAM roles for deployment. The pipeline assumes roles in target accounts (dev, prod) to deploy resources, maintaining least-privilege access. A shared KMS key encrypts artifacts in the S3 artifact bucket, and the key policy grants usage to the cross-account roles. This pattern avoids giving developers direct access to production while enabling automated deployments. Placing separate pipelines in each account creates management overhead and inconsistency. Using organization-wide admin roles violates least privilege. CodeDeploy agents pulling from S3 skips the orchestration and approval capabilities of CodePipeline. Exam tip: Cross-account CodePipeline requires three components: cross-account IAM roles, shared KMS key, and S3 artifact bucket with appropriate bucket policies.

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Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization5 / 5

A company plans to migrate 300 applications to AWS over 18 months. One of them is a packaged field-service application from a third-party vendor that runs on four on-premises servers. The vendor has confirmed in writing that a SaaS edition with the same features will be released in 9 months, and the company intends to adopt it. The application owner wants to avoid paying for two migrations of the same application. Which approach should the solutions architect recommend for this application?

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Retain means keeping an application in the source environment for now, usually with a plan to revisit it. AWS prescriptive guidance lists a pending vendor SaaS release as a common reason to retain a vendor-based application: the eventual move is a repurchase, so any interim migration is effort spent twice. Retain is a deliberate portfolio decision, not a failure to migrate, and it should carry a date or trigger for review, here the SaaS release. Rehosting or replatforming first would make sense if the data center had to close before the SaaS edition arrived, but the 18-month program leaves room to wait 9 months. Refactoring a third-party package is rarely an option at all, because the company does not own the code. Exam tip: when a stem says the vendor will soon offer SaaS and the owner wants to avoid migrating twice, pick retain now and repurchase later.

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RDS blue/green upgrades

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    How can I prepare the PostgreSQL upgrade away from production traffic?

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    A blue/green deployment maintains a synchronized staging environment for the change.

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    Can I use it with any source version?

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    Check the supported source version and replication prerequisites before creating it.

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RDS blue/green upgrades

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A company is using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL on a source minor version that meets RDS Blue/Green Deployment prerequisites. The company needs to perform a major version upgrade from PostgreSQL 12 to PostgreSQL 15. The database handles production traffic and they need to minimize downtime during the upgrade. Which approach provides the LEAST downtime?

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Create an Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployment, specify PostgreSQL 15 as the higher engine version for the green environment, test the green environment, then perform a switchover.

Blue/green keeps a staging environment synchronized until the planned switchover.

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Design for complex organizationsSee the guide for weighting92 QuestionsPass-IT questions

Connect an organization’s environments and set shared rules for security, resilience and cost.

  • Choose network connections, routing and DNS for multiple VPCs and hybrid environments, taking latency and segmentation into account.
  • Design cross-account access, encryption and centralized security monitoring to meet organizational requirements.
  • Plan backup, scaling and disaster recovery around how much downtime and data loss the organization can accept.
  • Structure AWS accounts and shared resources with a governance model and centralized logging.
  • Make costs visible to business units through usage monitoring and tags, then compare purchasing and rightsizing options.
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Design new solutionsSee the guide for weighting115 QuestionsPass-IT questions

Turn business requirements into an architecture that can be deployed, protected and operated.

  • Plan deployments and rollbacks with infrastructure as code, continuous integration and delivery, and configuration management.
  • Combine availability, replication and loosely coupled components with tested backup and recovery plans to meet continuity and reliability requirements.
  • Choose identity, network and data protection controls, including attack mitigation and patch management.
  • Select compute, storage and databases for access patterns and performance targets, using scaling, caching and buffering where appropriate.
  • Balance resource sizing, pricing models, storage tiers and data transfer costs, with controls that keep spending visible.
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Improve existing solutionsSee the guide for weighting94 QuestionsPass-IT questions

Assess an existing architecture and choose changes that improve its operation and efficiency.

  • Improve monitoring, deployment and configuration processes, automate suitable tasks and rehearse recovery from failures.
  • Review access, secrets and data protection, then strengthen patching, backups and automated security responses.
  • Translate performance needs into measurable targets, find bottlenecks and test changes such as rightsizing or managed services.
  • Remove single points of failure and improve replication, scaling and recovery as application use grows.
  • Use detailed usage and billing data to find waste, adjust purchasing choices and allocate costs with tags.
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Migrate and modernize workloadsSee the guide for weighting66 QuestionsPass-IT questions

Choose which workloads to move and how their architecture should change on AWS.

  • Assess applications and total cost of ownership, compare migration strategies and prioritize migration waves.
  • Choose secure ways to transfer applications, databases and data, with the connectivity, identity and governance the migration needs.
  • Select compute or container platforms, storage and databases that suit the workloads in their new environment.
  • Identify where serverless services, containers, purpose-built databases and application integration can simplify or decouple existing applications.
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About the SAP-C02 exam

Where can I take the SAP-C02 exam?

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How long is the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional exam?

The SAP-C02 exam has 75 questions and a 180-minute time limit.

How do you prepare for SAP-C02?

The catalog budget is around 100 hours, and the difficulty is length as much as depth: long multi-requirement scenarios where two answers work and one is cheaper or safer. Design for new solutions is the largest domain at 29%, with organizational complexity close behind at 26%. Practising under time pressure matters more here than on any associate exam.

How long is SAP-C02 valid?

Three years. Before your certification expires, pass the latest version of this exam to renew it for three years. Alternatively, while your certification is active, maintain it on AWS Skill Builder to add one year. Passing this exam also renews your AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certifications, provided each certification is active.

How soon can you retake SAP-C02?

Fourteen days after a failed attempt, with no cap on the number of tries. The same waiting period applies to every attempt.

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