AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C01)

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C01) is a certification provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role and have two or more years of hands-on experience managing and operating systems on AWS.

This certification exam generally covers the following domains:

1. Design for Organizational Complexity: 12.5%
2. Design for New Solutions: 31%
3. Migration Planning: 15%
4. Cost Control: 12.5%
5. Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions: 29%

Here’s a brief description of each domain:

1. Design for Organizational Complexity: This domain involves determining cross-account authentication and access strategy for complex organizations, designing networks for complex organizations, and designing a multi-account AWS environment for complex organizations.
2. Design for New Solutions: In this domain, you need to determine security requirements and controls when designing and implementing a solution, determine a solution design and implementation strategy to meet reliability requirements, and determine a solution design to ensure business continuity.
3. Migration Planning: This domain tests your knowledge of selecting existing workloads and processes for potential migration, determining a new cloud architecture for an existing solution, and determining a strategy for migrating existing on-premises workloads to the cloud.
4. Cost Control: Here, you need to identify opportunities to reduce cost in an existing solution, and identify opportunities to improve cost control in a new solution.
5. Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions: This domain involves troubleshooting solution architectures, determining a strategy to improve an existing solution for operational excellence, and determining a strategy to improve the reliability of an existing solution.

The certification process involves a multiple-choice, multiple-answer exam. It’s recommended that candidates have achieved the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or equivalent skills and experience before attempting this exam. The exam can be taken at a testing center or from the comfort and convenience of a home or office location as an online proctored exam.