SAP-C03 Practice ExamSAP-C03 practice exam
40 free scenario questions for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam that replaces SAP-C02 on November 17, 2026. No sign-up; start with question 1 below.
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Exam format
| Questions | 75: 65 scored and 10 unscored, multiple choice and multiple response |
|---|---|
| Time | 180 minutes, 2.4 minutes a question |
| Passing score | 720 on a scaled score of 100–1,000 |
| Cost | $300; 50% off for holders of an earlier AWS certification |
SAP-C02 can be taken until November 16, 2026; SAP-C03 is delivered from November 17 at Pearson VUE test centers and online, in English, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese and Spanish (Latin America). Dates, scoring rules and registration are on the exam guide page.
Where the 65 scored questions come from
AWS publishes the share of scored questions per domain. Multiplying by 65 gives the approximate count you will see; the bank follows the same weights, so your practice score per domain shows where the next study hour goes.
| Domain | Weight | Scored questions | New skills | In our bank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Architecture Design and Implementation Built for the Cloud | 25% | ≈16 | 16 of 34 | 75 |
| 2. Security, Compliance, and Governance | 25% | ≈16 | 9 of 24 | 75 |
| 3. Cost-Optimized Architecture Design | 15% | ≈10 | 3 of 19 | 45 |
| 4. Resilience, Migration, and Business Continuity | 15% | ≈10 | 1 of 17 | 45 |
| 5. Operational Excellence and Automation | 20% | ≈13 | 8 of 21 | 60 |
What an SAP-C02 question bank does not cover
The SAP-C03 guide adds 37 skills that were not in SAP-C02 and drops IoT, end-user computing and media services from the in-scope list. A bank written for SAP-C02 has no questions on any of the rows below. 106 of our 300 questions test one of these new skills.
| Area added in SAP-C03 | New skills | Our questions |
|---|---|---|
| Generative AI and agentic AIAmazon Bedrock integrations, AgentCore agent architectures, RAG, Bedrock Guardrails, human-oversight workflows | 11 | 36 |
| Cloud-native patternsServerless pipelines, durable workflows, service mesh, ECR image security, ingress, WebSocket, multi-tenancy | 7 | 18 |
| DevSecOps and observabilityPipeline scanning and signing, multi-account pipelines, container monitoring, synthetics and RUM | 4 | 13 |
| Data and analyticsLakehouse with Lake Formation and Iceberg, analytics pipelines, Clean Rooms sharing | 3 | 5 |
| Security and complianceCognito and EKS Pod Identity, IAM Roles Anywhere, post-quantum KMS keys, data residency, AWS Artifact, threat modeling | 6 | 16 |
| Hybrid, network and operationsEKS/ECS Anywhere and Outposts, IPv6 dual-stack, multi-cluster DR, cost-aware observability, safe remediation, runbooks | 6 | 18 |
Every added skill, where the SAP-C02 content moved and the 20 services added to the in-scope list are on the SAP-C02 vs SAP-C03 page.
Free sample and full bank
| Free | Full bank, $19 once | |
|---|---|---|
| Questions | 40, across all five domains | 300, including the free 40; 93 of the paid ones test skills new in SAP-C03 |
| Explanation and a reason for every wrong option | Yes | Yes |
| Link to the AWS documentation that settles each answer | Yes | Yes |
| Timed exam with score by domain | 40-question mini-exam, 96 minutes | 75-question, 180-minute simulations weighted 25/25/15/15/20, unseen questions first: 4 full exams without repeats |
| Drill one domain or your weakest questions | – | Yes |
| Access | No account | 12 months, one payment, no subscription |
What each question gives you
The skill it tests, quoted from the official guide, so a weak score points to the exact lines of the blueprint. A scenario with the constraints the professional exam uses to separate close answers: least operational overhead, lowest cost, an RPO in minutes, a regulator's Region list. After you answer, the reason every wrong option fails and one or two links to the AWS documentation that settles it.
Questions follow the current service line-up: migration discovery and assessment use AWS Transform, since AWS Application Discovery Service closed to new customers, and no answer relies on AWS App Mesh, which reached end of support on September 30, 2026. If you disagree with an answer, use Report an error.