Exam objectives
SAA-C03AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam objectives
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Design Secure Architectures
30%of examDesign Resilient Architectures
26%of examDesign High-Performing Architectures
24%of exam- 3.1 Determine high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions.Practice
- 3.2 Design high-performing and elastic compute solutions.Practice
- 3.3 Determine high-performing database solutions.Practice
- 3.4 Determine high-performing and/or scalable network architectures.Practice
- 3.5 Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions.Practice
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
20%of examObjectives marked Practice open a page of original questions written for that objective, each with a full explanation cited to Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation.
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