Preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) exam
Want to earn one of the most valuable certifications in IT? AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate opens doors in the world of cloud technology and significantly increases your market value. The average salary of a certified AWS architect in the United States is $130,000+ per year, and in Europe — €70,000+ per year.
This course will take you through every topic on the SAA-C03 exam step by step: from networking and compute to databases, security, and architectural patterns. You won’t just memorize definitions — you’ll understand how AWS works from the inside and learn to choose the right service for any task. That’s exactly what the exam tests.
At the end, you’ll take a full-length practice test with 65 questions — designed to closely match the format and difficulty of the real exam.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
All four SAA-C03 exam domains: security, resilience, performance, cost optimization
How to design reliable and scalable architectures on AWS
The differences between similar services and when to use each one
How the exam thinks — the logic behind questions and strategies for correct answers
Real architectural scenarios that appear both on the exam and in actual work
CONCLUSION
SAA-C03 is more than just an exam. It’s proof that you can think like an architect and design systems that work in the real world. This course gives you exactly what you need: knowledge, an understanding of exam logic, and confidence. Let’s get started.
Curriculum
- 13 Sections
- 54 Lessons
- Lifetime
- MODULE 1: How the SAA-C03 Exam Works2
- MODULE 2: Security (30% of the exam)8
- 2.1LESSON 1. IAM: Users, Groups, Roles, Policies, MFA
- 2.2LESSON 2. IAM Identity Center, Organizations, Control Tower, SCP
- 2.3LESSON 3. Cognito — Application User Authentication
- 2.4LESSON 4. KMS, CloudHSM — Data Encryption
- 2.5LESSON 5. Secrets Manager and ACM — Secrets and Certificates
- 2.6LESSON 6. WAF, Shield, Network Firewall — Protection Against Attacks
- 2.7LESSON 7. GuardDuty, Macie, Inspector, Security Hub — Threat Monitoring
- 2.8LESSON 8. PrivateLink, RAM — Private Access and Shared Resources
- MODULE 3: Networking5
- MODULE 4: Compute5
- MODULE 5: Storage5
- MODULE 6: Databases5
- MODULE 7: Integration and Messaging3
- MODULE 8: Analytics and Data4
- MODULE 9: Monitoring, Management, and Automation4
- MODULE 10: Machine Learning — Exam Overview2
- MODULE 11: Disaster Recovery and Architectural Patterns3
- MODULE 12: Comparison Tables5
- 12.1LESSON 1. Storage: S3 vs EBS vs EFS vs FSx vs Storage Gateway
- 12.2LESSON 2. Databases: RDS vs Aurora vs DynamoDB vs Redshift vs ElastiCache
- 12.3LESSON 3. Messaging: SQS vs SNS vs EventBridge vs MQ vs Kinesis
- 12.4LESSON 4. Compute: EC2 vs Lambda vs Fargate vs ECS vs EKS vs Batch
- 12.5LESSON 5. Networking: ALB vs NLB vs GLB, Direct Connect vs VPN, CloudFront vs Global Accelerator
- MODULE 13: Practice Tests with Explanations3