SAP-C02AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
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About SAP-C02
Long, dense scenarios across multi-account organisations, hybrid networking, migrations and re-architecture. Several answers are often valid; the right one meets every stated requirement with the least change. Stamina matters as much as knowledge: 75 questions in three hours.
Who it's for. Experienced architects working across many accounts, Regions and teams.
How to prepare
- Read the answers first. They often differ in one or two words, which tells you what the long scenario is really testing.
- Multi-account patterns carry a lot of weight: Organizations SCPs, Control Tower, RAM sharing, Transit Gateway and centralised egress.
- Know the 7 Rs of migration and which service does each: Application Migration Service, DMS, DataSync, Snow Family.
Sample SAP-C02 questions
Try these with the answers on the page, then practise the full bank.
- A loyalty platform needs transactional writes with strong consistency, and its catalog reads reach millions per second with microsecond responses for hot items. Which architecture fits? Design for new solutions
- An energy trading firm receives tens of thousands of price updates per second from several exchanges. Updates for any single contract must be consumed strictly in arrival order, the pipeline must survive a full regional outage with minimal data loss, and every raw update must be retained for seven years for audits. Which design best satisfies these needs? Design for new solutions
- A company wants any S3 bucket that becomes publicly readable to be detected and returned to a compliant state automatically. Which approach meets this need? Continuous improvement for existing solutions
- A company has a large monolith with tightly coupled modules, a commercial Oracle database, shared file storage, hardcoded server addresses, and Windows-only components. It wants to move to microservices on AWS with low business risk. Which approach is most appropriate? Accelerate workload migration and modernization
- A data pipeline in private subnets reads about 40 TB per month from an S3 bucket in the same Region. The monthly bill shows large per-GB charges for NAT gateway processing. Which change removes most of this cost without changing the pipeline code? Continuous improvement for existing solutions
- A checkout service calls an inventory service synchronously. When inventory slows down, checkout threads wait until they time out, and within minutes every service on the platform stops responding. Which set of design changes MOST effectively contains this failure? Continuous improvement for existing solutions
- Compliance requires that EC2 instances reach AWS service APIs such as S3 and Systems Manager without any traffic leaving the AWS network for the public internet. Which setup accomplishes this? Design solutions for organizational complexity
- A legacy app has four problems: web servers hit 90 percent CPU during office hours; the database rejects new connections at its limit; user sessions are held in web server memory, so users are logged out on every deploy; and each release needs two hours of downtime. Which single design fixes all four? Continuous improvement for existing solutions
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Questions people ask
Is this SAP-C02 practice exam free?
Yes. All 326 questions, the timed mock exam and the explanations are free, and there's no account to create.
Are these real exam questions?
No. Real exam questions are confidential under the AWS candidate agreement. These are practice questions written to cover the same domains in the same scenario style, each with an explanation of why the answer is right.
How is the SAP-C02 mock exam scored?
Questions are drawn from every domain in proportion to the exam guide, and you get a raw percentage with a breakdown by domain. AWS uses scaled scoring, so treat 75% or more here as a sign you're ready rather than a predicted score.
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