SAA-CO3 What Does It Mean?
Bhavin Gandecha
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The exam code for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam is changing.
BUT I do not have to reappear to retain my certificate, it is valid for 3 years as AWS promised.
Phew!
With the change in the code, there are a few things that are changing. Let's go over them and I will also give you links to get some sample questions in case you are thinking of preparing for the exam.
- The exam will still be 65 questions, 130 mins, and will cost $150 US. If you have given any other AWS exam you should have a 50% off coupon. 😁
- Registration opens for the new exam on July 26, 2022, and the first day to take the exam will be on August 30, 2022.
- There are still 4 different assessment domains to focus on.
- 3 of the four domains have remained the same with some changes in the level of the number of questions
Design Resilient Architectures – Percentage dropped from 30% to 26%
Design High-performing architectures – Percentage dropped from 28% to 24%
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures – Percentage increased from 18% to 20%
- The new domain introduced is 'Design Secure Architectures', this will have 30% weightage!
To summarize:
Let's access the domains and things you need to focus on:
Design Secure Architectures
- Design secure access to AWS resources.
- Design secure workloads and applications.
- Determine appropriate data security controls.
Design Resilient Architectures
Design scalable and loosely coupled architectures.
Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures
Design High-Performing Architectures
- Determine high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions
- Design high-performing and elastic compute solutions.
- Determine high-performing database solutions.
- Determine high-performing and/or scalable network architectures.
- Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions.
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
Design cost-optimized storage solutions.
Design cost-optimized compute solutions
Design cost-optimized database solutions.
Design cost-optimized network architectures.