Defend multi-account, network, security, resilience, and cost choices for a complex organization.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02)Active
30-Day AWS Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) Sprint
Pass SAP-C02 by building Professional-level architecture judgment through official guidance, scenarios, applied design, and timed simulations.
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3 of 8 actions complete
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Observable progress—not content consumed.
Design production solutions across deployment, continuity, security, reliability, performance, and cost.
Diagnose and improve an existing workload against Well-Architected tradeoffs.
Complete timed simulations, close key gaps, and sit SAP-C02.
Execution sequence
Learning path
3 of 8 actions complete
prepare
180 minSet the SAP-C02 target and establish a baseline
Review exam logistics, reserve the target date, create a four-domain scorecard, and answer architecture questions without notes.
AWS Certification · reference · free
Open resourceAWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Assigned: Review the exam overview, duration, format, preparation steps, and scheduling path.
Why it matters: Anchor the plan to the current exam format and official preparation path.
Bring back: Which two domains feel least automatic today?
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78/4000
learn
180 minLearn the Well-Architected decision model
Study architecture tradeoffs and map the four exam domains to the decisions you just reviewed.
AWS Documentation · paper · free
Open resourceAWS Well-Architected Framework
Assigned: Read the introduction, tradeoffs, six pillars, and Well-Architected Tool overview.
Why it matters: Learn the architecture-evaluation model behind Professional-level decisions.
Bring back: Which two pillars are in tension in your sample migration choice?
Link checked Jul 21, 2026AWS Documentation · reference · free
Open resourceSAP-C02 Exam Guide
Assigned: Use the Content Outline as a 20-minute coverage-map check.
Why it matters: Preserve the official scope without turning it into the curriculum.
Bring back: Map each domain to one architecture decision you now understand.
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practice
180 minScenario drill: organizational complexity
Work timed scenarios covering multi-account governance, hybrid connectivity, centralized logging, and cost allocation; document decisive requirements.
Real-world practice: Use a sanitized migration case without client names, account IDs, or operational data.
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learn
180 minLearn multi-VPC hybrid networks and multi-account design
Extract decision rules for Transit Gateway, peering, account isolation, centralized logging, and shared services.
AWS Whitepapers · paper · free
Open resourceBuilding a Scalable and Secure Multi-VPC AWS Network Infrastructure
Assigned: Read hub-and-spoke, routing, hybrid connectivity, availability, and tradeoffs.
Why it matters: Understand enterprise networking decisions behind hybrid scenarios.
Bring back: What requirement makes Transit Gateway stronger than repeated VPC peering?
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apply
180 minApply Domain 1 to a migration architecture
Write a one-page target state covering network path, DNS, identity, account model, logging, recovery objective, and rejected alternatives.
Real-world practice: Apply general patterns to a sanitized migration situation.
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Consider: What requirement eliminated the most tempting alternative?
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learn
180 minLearn cost governance and cloud financial management
Turn cost visibility, tagging, purchasing, efficiency, and multi-account guardrails into architecture decision cues.
AWS Well-Architected Framework · paper · free
Open resourceCost Optimization Pillar
Assigned: Read cloud financial management, expenditure awareness, resource efficiency, and optimization over time.
Why it matters: Treat cost choices as architecture decisions, not post-launch cleanup.
Bring back: Which control belongs at organization level and which belongs in workload design?
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practice
180 minComplete the Domain 1 checkpoint simulation
Complete a timed scenario set, grade the decision rationale, and turn misses into an if-requirement-then-pattern error log.
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Consider: Which three decision cues would have prevented the missed answers?
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learn
180 minLearn identity, cryptography, and resilient-system patterns
Choose among workforce, workload, federated, and customer identity; then connect key, secret, certificate, and recovery choices to requirements.
AWS Decision Guides · article · free
Open resourceChoosing an AWS Identity Service
Assigned: Review the identity foundations and selection tables.
Why it matters: Differentiate workforce, workload, federated, and application identities.
Bring back: Choose identity patterns for employee, workload, and external customer principals.
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