AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
SAA-C03 practice questions from your own study guide
SAA-C03 is 65 questions in 130 minutes, and 720 out of 1000 passes.
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- Code
- SAA-C03
- Questions
- 65: 50 scored, 15 unscored
- Duration
- 130 min
- Pass mark
- 720 of 1000, scaled from 100
- Price
- $150
- Delivery
- Pearson VUE, or online proctored
- Format
- multiple choice and multiple response
Exam facts from AWS exam guide, SAA-C03. QuizPDF is not affiliated with the exam body.
- Pass mark
- 72
- Gap
- -11
- To exam day
- 18 days
Readiness 61%. Networking is the topic holding it down. 1 topic untested.
| Topic | Misses | Last seen |
|---|---|---|
| Networking | 7 | Page 84 |
| Security and identity | 4 | Page 41 |
| Storage classes | 2 | Page 17 |
| Cost management | — | Untested |
What SAA-C03 tests
The official weightings. QuizPDF reads your syllabus and finds its own topics, then reports Readiness per topic.
| Domain | Weight | Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Design secure architectures | 30% | IAM roles and policies, IAM Identity Center, cross-account STS, security groups against NACLs, KMS at rest, ACM in transit |
| Design resilient architectures | 26% | SQS against SNS, Step Functions, Lambda and Fargate, ECS and EKS, multi-AZ and multi-Region, RPO and RTO, Route 53 failover |
| Design high-performing architectures | 24% | EC2 instance types and Auto Scaling, EBS volume types, S3 storage classes, EFS, RDS against DynamoDB against Aurora, ElastiCache, CloudFront |
| Design cost-optimized architectures | 20% | S3 lifecycle policies, On-Demand against Reserved against Spot, Savings Plans, right-sizing, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor |
Where candidates lose points
Self-reported, from candidate write-ups. Your own Miss list will disagree with this one, and it is the one that counts.
- 01
VPC networking scenarios
Subnets, route tables, NAT against internet gateway, security groups against NACLs. Named most often in failure reports.
- 02
Database selection
RDS against DynamoDB against Aurora, and multi-AZ against read replicas. The question gives a workload, not a service name.
- 03
Trade-offs, not definitions
Knowing that S3 has 11 nines does not tell you when to pick it over EFS. Scenario questions ask when and why.
- 04
Long scenario wording
Questions run several sentences with distractors inside them. Candidates report misreading rather than not knowing.
- 05
Pacing
65 questions in 130 minutes is 2 min each. Running out of time on the last 20 is a common report.
Candidates report 4 to 12 weeks of study, on a course PDF plus whitepapers and practice sets. Those are community figures: AWS publishes no recommended duration.
How a readiness drill on your own study guide works
- 01Upload the syllabusThe study guide, the course notes, the official PDF. Text PDF, up to 40 MB.
- 02Take the free diagnostic10 questions written from your pages. Each answer is revealed at once, with the page it came from.
- 03Read the scoreYour score, the topics you missed named from your own document, and Readiness beside the pass mark.
- 04Drill the Miss list$29 once unlocks that syllabus forever. Every drill after that is weighted toward what you keep getting wrong.
Questions about SAA-C03
- What is the SAA-C03 passing score?
- 720 on a scale of 100 to 1000. AWS scales the score, so it is not a percentage of questions right.
- How many questions are on the SAA-C03 exam?
- 65. Only 50 are scored; 15 are unscored and unmarked, so answer all of them.
- Can I drill my own SAA-C03 notes instead of a question bank?
- Yes. That is what this is. Upload your study guide as a text PDF and the questions are written from its pages.
- Does the free drill need a card?
- No. A free account, one upload, 10 questions, your score and your missed topics. No card.
- What does the $29 unlock buy?
- Unlimited drills on that one syllabus, forever, weighted to your Miss list, plus the Readiness number. One payment, no subscription.
- Will it read a scanned PDF?
- No. We need a text layer. A scan is refused before anything is charged, and the upload returns.
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