Certification prep
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03). Exam-blueprint-mapped modules,
with a playlist that stays inside the exam prep.
▶ Play everything · 372 minPlays straight through all 36 lessons, in order. Keeps going while
your screen is off, and picks up where you left off next time.
The exam
50 scored questions plus 15 unscored ones that aren't identified.Multiple choice (one right, three distractors) or multiple response (two or more right, out of five or more).
Unanswered questions are scored as incorrect; there is no penalty for guessing.
Scaled score 100–1,000, pass at 720 . Compensatory — you pass the exam overall, not each domain.
130 minutes , 65 questions (from the exam's own page — the guide doesn't state the duration).
Sources: SAA-C03 exam guide , fetched 2026-09-23; exam page , fetched 2026-09-25.
Domains Module Domain Weight SAA1 Design Secure Architectures 30% SAA2 Design Resilient Architectures 26% SAA3 Design High-Performing Architectures 24% SAA4 Design Cost-Optimized Architectures 20%
Certification prep Exam-blueprint-mapped modules. Added once the service tracks they depend on exist.
SAAF Fundamentals
What the SAA-C03 domains assume you already know — cloud definitions, global infrastructure, the zonal/Regional/global taxonomy, shared responsibility, and the networking, virtualisation, encryption and DNS underneath — 5 lessons · 46 min audio · fundamentals
SAA0 Whitepapers and FAQs
The SAA-C03 recommended reading list, narrated — Well-Architected, the Security Pillar, and six service FAQs — 5 lessons · 47 min audio · fundamentals
SAA1 Design Secure Architectures
Domain 1 of SAA-C03 — the 30% that is really one skill wearing six costumes — 6 lessons · 71 min audio · 30% of exam · core
SAA2 Design Resilient Architectures
Domain 2 of SAA-C03 — decoupling, scaling, and the four ways to survive losing a Region — 6 lessons · 67 min audio · 26% of exam · core
SAA3 Design High-Performing Architectures
Domain 3 of SAA-C03 — picking the storage, compute, database, network and data pipeline that fits the load — 6 lessons · 61 min audio · 24% of exam · core
SAA4 Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
Domain 4 of SAA-C03 — the tools that show the bill, and the levers that shrink it — 5 lessons · 50 min audio · 20% of exam · core
SAA9 Exam Strategy and Question Mechanics
How SAA-C03 questions are built, how to read a scenario, and elimination as a repeatable method — 3 lessons · 31 min audio · core
36 lessons · 372 min of narration