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AWS Solutions Architect Professional Practice Questions

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) — Get ready for the AWS Solutions Architect Professional practice test with realistic SAP-C02 practice questions covering migration, hybrid architecture, governance, security, and cost controls. Each question includes a detailed explanation referencing real AWS services, not just the correct letter.

75
Total Questions
180 minutes
Time Limit
750/1000 (scaled)
Passing Score
$300 USD
Registration Fee

Free Sample Questions

Here are 5 free sample questions from our full bank of 530+ AWS Solutions Architect Professionalpractice questions. Try them out below — click "Show Answer" to reveal the correct response and explanation.

1

A company is migrating a 50-node on-premises Hadoop cluster with 500 TB of data to AWS. The migration must complete within a 2-week maintenance window, and the on-premises internet connection is limited to 100 Mbps. Which approach lets the company meet the migration deadline?

AUse AWS DataSync over the existing internet connection to transfer the data directly to Amazon S3.
BProvision a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection and use the AWS CLI to copy the data to Amazon S3.
CUse AWS Snowmobile to physically transport the entire 500 TB dataset to an AWS Region.
DOrder multiple AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices, copy the data locally, and ship them to AWS for ingestion into Amazon S3.
2

A financial services company runs latency-sensitive trading applications in an on-premises data center and needs consistent, private, high-bandwidth connectivity to workloads running across 12 VPCs in the same AWS Region, along with predictable network performance that avoids the variability of the public internet. Which combination of services should the solutions architect recommend?

AProvision an AWS Direct Connect connection into the Region and attach a Direct Connect gateway to a Transit Gateway that is associated with all 12 VPCs.
BEstablish 12 separate AWS Site-to-Site VPN connections, one from the on-premises router to each VPC's virtual private gateway.
CUse AWS PrivateLink to expose each VPC as an endpoint service and connect from on-premises over the internet.
DPeer all 12 VPCs together using VPC peering and route on-premises traffic through a NAT gateway in the hub VPC.
3

A company with 40 AWS accounts organized under AWS Organizations wants to prevent member accounts from disabling AWS CloudTrail or leaving the organization, while still letting account owners manage most other services freely. What should the solutions architect implement?

ACreate an IAM policy in each member account that denies the cloudtrail:StopLogging and organizations:LeaveOrganization actions, and attach it to every IAM user.
BEnable AWS Config rules in each account to flag CloudTrail changes and organization exits after the fact.
CCreate a service control policy (SCP) that denies the cloudtrail:StopLogging, cloudtrail:DeleteTrail, and organizations:LeaveOrganization actions, and attach it to the relevant organizational units.
DUse AWS IAM Identity Center permission sets to restrict which users can access the CloudTrail console.
4

A company stores highly sensitive customer records in Amazon S3 buckets across 15 AWS accounts managed under AWS Organizations. The security team needs a centralized way to continuously discover, classify, and monitor these buckets for sensitive data such as PII, and to receive findings in a single dashboard without deploying agents in every account.

AEnable AWS Config rules in each account and write custom Lambda functions to scan object contents for PII patterns.
BEnable Amazon Macie as a delegated administrator for the organization and enable it across all member accounts to automatically discover and classify sensitive data in S3.
CDeploy Amazon GuardDuty in each account with S3 protection enabled and review findings in each account's console individually.
DUse Amazon Inspector to scan S3 bucket contents for sensitive data patterns and forward results to Security Hub.
5

A company's finance team notices that AWS spend has grown 300% over six months across 25 linked accounts in an AWS Organization, and wants ongoing visibility into which teams and services are driving the increase, plus automated alerts when actual or forecasted spend exceeds defined thresholds -- without waiting for month-end invoices.

AEnable cost allocation tags across accounts, use AWS Cost Explorer for trend analysis by tag and service, and configure AWS Budgets with actual and forecasted alerts sent through Amazon SNS.
BReview AWS Trusted Advisor cost optimization checks weekly and manually calculate spend trends from the checks reported.
CEnable AWS Compute Optimizer in each account and set up Amazon CloudWatch billing alarms based on estimated charges.
DUse AWS Cost and Usage Reports exported to Amazon S3 and manually review the CSV files in a spreadsheet each week.

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About the AWS Solutions Architect Professional

Format & Structure

Total Questions
75
Time Limit
180 minutes
Format
Multiple choice / multiple response, computer-based via Pearson VUE

Scoring & Cost

Passing Score
750/1000 (scaled)
Registration Fee
$300 USD

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Frequently Asked Questions

How hard is the AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification?

It's widely considered one of the toughest certifications AWS offers. The scenarios are long, multi-paragraph situations with several plausible-looking answers, and you're expected to weigh cost, operational overhead, security, and performance all at once -- not just pick the technically correct service. Most candidates who pass have real hands-on experience designing AWS architectures, not just study-guide knowledge. Working through SAP-C02 practice questions regularly is one of the best ways to get comfortable with that reasoning style before certification day.

What are the prerequisites for SAP-C02?

AWS doesn't technically require you to hold any other certification before sitting SAP-C02, but in practice almost nobody attempts it cold. AWS itself recommends at least two years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architectures on AWS, and most successful candidates already hold the Solutions Architect Associate credential. If you're newer to AWS, building that associate-level foundation first will make the professional-level material far more manageable.

What's the difference between the AWS Solutions Architect Associate and Professional certifications?

The Associate certification tests whether you can design and deploy reasonably straightforward, well-architected solutions on AWS. The Professional certification goes several levels deeper -- it covers multi-account governance, hybrid networking, complex migrations, cost optimization at scale, and organizational-level security controls. Where an associate-level question might ask you to pick the right storage service, an aws professional architect question is more likely to hand you a 12-account organization with competing business requirements and ask you to design the whole thing.

How long should I study for the AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification?

Most candidates with solid AWS experience spend 6-10 weeks preparing, often more if they're coming from the associate level without much real-world deployment work. A reasonable plan mixes reviewing whitepapers on well-architected design, hands-on labs in areas you're weaker on (multi-account networking and governance trip up a lot of people), and steady practice with SAP-C02 practice questions to get used to the scenario format and pacing.

What score do I need to pass SAP-C02?

You need a scaled score of 750 out of a possible 1,000. AWS uses a scaled scoring model rather than a simple percentage, so the raw number of questions you need to answer correctly isn't published -- the scoring accounts for the varying difficulty of different question sets. Don't try to reverse-engineer a target percentage; focus instead on being consistently strong across all six SAP-C02 domains.

How much does the AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification cost?

The registration fee is $300 USD as of 2026. If you don't pass on your first attempt, AWS requires a 14-day waiting period before you can retake it, and you'll need to pay the full $300 again. AWS does offer discounted practice exams (around $40) through its official channel if you want an additional gauge of readiness beyond free practice questions.

How many questions are on the SAP-C02 certification?

There are 75 questions total, delivered as either multiple choice (one correct answer) or multiple response (two or more correct answers out of five or more options). A handful of these are unscored questions AWS uses to evaluate future content, but you won't know which ones, so it's worth treating every question with equal care. You'll have 180 minutes to work through all of them, which comes out to roughly two and a half minutes per question.

Is the AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification worth it?

For architects and senior engineers working with AWS regularly, most people say yes -- it's one of the most respected credentials in the cloud industry and tends to open doors for senior architecture and consulting roles. That said, it's a serious time investment, so it makes the most sense if you're already working hands-on with AWS or moving into an architecture-focused role. If you're earlier in your AWS journey, the Associate certification is usually the better next step.

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