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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) exam validates advanced technical skills and experience in designing distributed systems and applications on the AWS platform
- 180 min
- 75% to pass
- 75 bank questions
- 4 domains
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Sample AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam question
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An organization runs a daily Spark job on Amazon EMR that takes 3 hours and is resilient to node failures. The team wants to minimize compute costs. What is the most cost-effective EMR instance purchasing strategy?
Exam facts at a glance
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- Time limit
- 180 minutes
- Passing score
- 75%
- Domains
- 4
- Questions in our bank
- 75
- Level
- PROFESSIONAL
- Measured complexity
- 2.4 / 10
- Question mix
- 26 single · 25 multi · 24 interactive
Where the hard questions actually are
We score every question in the bank 1-10 on a reproducible formula. Below is the per-domain breakdown.
- Design Cost-Optimized Architectures19 questions · complexity 1.6/10 · Gentle
21% multi-select · 5% scenario · 32% interactive
- Design High-Performing Architectures18 questions · complexity 3.4/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 33% scenario · 33% interactive
- Design Resilient Architectures18 questions · complexity 2.5/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 17% scenario · 33% interactive
- Design Secure Architectures20 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
35% multi-select · 0% scenario · 30% interactive
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