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Design Secure Architectures 30%
  • Secure Access to AWS Resources
  • Secure Workloads and Applications
  • Data Security Controls
Design Resilient Architectures 26%
  • Scalable and Loosely Coupled Architectures
  • Highly Available and Fault-Tolerant Architectures
Design High-Performing Architectures 24%
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  • High-Performing Databases
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  • High-Performing Data Ingestion and Transformation
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures 20%
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Complete cheat sheet
Study Guide · SAA-C03

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate — Study Guide

4 domains · 14 subtopics · weighted by the official SAA-C03 exam guide

This study guide walks you through the mental models and decision logic behind every SAA-C03 scenario. Each subtopic starts by explaining the concept in plain language, then uses diagrams and comparison tables to separate the look-alike services, and finishes with a cheat sheet of the sharp facts the exam tests.

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