Unofficial practice exam
DocBacked practice exam for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) exam
132 original questions, mapped to the official exam guide version SAA-C03 (exam guide version 1.1; guide page updated 2026-10-16). Start with 20 free questions; no sign-up needed.
About the exam
From the official exam guide: 65 questions (50 scored, 15 unscored), 130 minutes, multiple choice (1 of 4) or multiple response (2+ of 5+), scaled score 100-1,000, minimum passing score 720, compensatory scoring, 150 USD.
Source: official SAA-C03 exam guide. Weights verified 2026-10-18.
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Our question bank vs. the official weights
- D1: Design Secure Architectures30% official · 30.3% of bank
- D2: Design Resilient Architectures26% official · 25.8% of bank
- D3: Design High-Performing Architectures24% official · 24.2% of bank
- D4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures20% official · 19.7% of bank
Our build fails automatically if any domain drifts more than 2 percentage points from the official weight.
Study checklist from the official guide
The exam guide groups the content into these task statements. Use them as a checklist; the full guide lists the detailed skills under each one.
D1: Design Secure Architectures30%
- 1.1 Design secure access to AWS resources.
- 1.2 Design secure workloads and applications.
- 1.3 Determine appropriate data security controls.
D2: Design Resilient Architectures26%
- 2.1 Design scalable and loosely coupled architectures.
- 2.2 Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures.
D3: Design High-Performing Architectures24%
- 3.1 Determine high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions.
- 3.2 Design high-performing and elastic compute solutions.
- 3.3 Determine high-performing database solutions.
- 3.4 Determine high-performing and/or scalable network architectures.
- 3.5 Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions.
D4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures20%
- 4.1 Design cost-optimized storage solutions.
- 4.2 Design cost-optimized compute solutions.
- 4.3 Design cost-optimized database solutions.
- 4.4 Design cost-optimized network architectures.