Review a compact AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) cheat sheet for multi-account governance, hybrid connectivity, resilience, migration, modernization, cost, and operations before using IT Mastery sample questions.
Use this cheat sheet to organize professional-level AWS architecture trade-offs before trying the SAP-C02 sample questions. The current SAP-C02 page includes original sample questions and exam guidance while full IT Mastery practice is being prioritized.
| Item | Review cue |
|---|---|
| Exam route | AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional |
| Exam code | SAP-C02 |
| Items | 75 total |
| Time | 180 minutes |
| Current page status | Sample questions available |
| Best use | Practice organization-scale architecture, migration, governance, resilience, and modernization decisions |
| Domain | Weight | What to know | Common trap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design for Organizational Complexity | 26% | multi-account, landing zones, Organizations, guardrails, network segmentation | solving organization-wide control with one account-level setting |
| Design for New Solutions | 29% | resilient service selection, data design, networking, performance, security | overbuilding when a managed regional design meets the requirement |
| Continuous Improvement | 25% | cost, reliability, operations, security, performance improvement | changing architecture without identifying the limiting constraint |
| Migration and Modernization | 20% | portfolio assessment, dependency mapping, migration waves, refactor vs rehost | migrating everything with one pattern |
| Distinction | Exam reflex |
|---|---|
| SCP vs IAM policy | Service control policies set account guardrails. IAM policies grant permissions inside those boundaries. |
| Landing zone vs single account | Landing zones support governance at scale. Single accounts fit smaller isolated workloads. |
| Rehost vs refactor | Rehost moves quickly. Refactor changes architecture for longer-term benefits. |
| Multi-AZ vs multi-Region | Multi-AZ handles zone failure. Multi-Region handles broader geographic or disaster-recovery needs. |
| Centralized inspection vs local controls | Centralize when policy consistency matters; keep local controls where workload-specific behavior matters. |
For each SAP-C02 miss, identify the scale of the decision: account, organization, network, workload, data, or migration portfolio. Professional readiness means explaining why the chosen architecture reduces long-term risk and operational burden.