Study guide

SAA-C03 study guide

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Review order

Study by exam weight

30%

Design Secure Architectures

Identity, access control, encryption, network boundaries, and secure workload patterns.

26%

Design Resilient Architectures

Highly available, fault-tolerant, recoverable architectures across compute, storage, and networking.

24%

Design High-Performing Architectures

Performance-minded service selection, scaling, caching, databases, and workload optimization.

20%

Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

Cost-aware storage, compute purchasing, monitoring, right-sizing, and architecture tradeoffs.

30%

Design Secure Architectures

Identity, access control, encryption, network boundaries, and secure workload patterns.

26%

Design Resilient Architectures

Highly available, fault-tolerant, recoverable architectures across compute, storage, and networking.

24%

Design High-Performing Architectures

Performance-minded service selection, scaling, caching, databases, and workload optimization.

20%

Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

Cost-aware storage, compute purchasing, monitoring, right-sizing, and architecture tradeoffs.