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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Standardize your team on AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate with a structured AWS training path — a blueprint-weighted practice exam and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Course
1
Practice exam
4
Core skills
$150
Exam fee (AWS)
AWS cloud engineering team reviewing architecture diagrams together
Difficulty
Difficulty: 3 of 5 (Moderate)
Moderate
Exam fee (AWS)
$150
Courses on path
1
Official source
AWS’s official exam page
Exam code
  • SAA-C03

Exam datasheet

Format
Multiple choice, multiple response
Prerequisites
None
Recommended experience
1 year of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS. Alternatively, 1-3 years of IT experience can also work.
Recertification
3 years
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Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$150

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate path takes SAA-C03.

  1. SAA-C03AWS Certified Solutions Architect - AssociatePractice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $150
    Exam length
    130 minutes
    Questions
    65
    Passing score
    720/1000

    Exam blueprint: SAA-C03

Skills your team builds

Designing resilient architecturesDesigning high-performing architecturesDesigning secure applications and architecturesDesigning cost-optimized architectures

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    SAA-C03

    This AWS certified solutions architect training helps you build and secure cloud solutions on AWS. Through real-world scenarios, unlimited practice exams and engaging bite-sized videos, you'll design architectures that meet compute, networking, storage and database needs. You'll learn to migrate workloads, deploy serverless apps, manage VPCs and containers, automate with infrastructure as code and monitoring tools, and apply cost and security best practices. You'll also explore IAM, encryption, analytics with Athena, automation with Lambda and API Gateway, container orchestration and hybrid multi‑region design. Whether you need a study guide for SAA‑C03 or real‑world skills, this associate course gets you ready to pass the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam.

    Knox Hutchinson
    256 videosPractice exam35h
    Open course

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Certification practice exams
  • Per-team completion reporting

AWS career ladder

Where AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate sits in your team's AWS progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Entry level

    2 certs

    AWS Certified AI Practitioner

    AIF-C01

    AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

    CLF-C02

  2. Associate level

    5 certs

    AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

    SOA-C03

    AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate

    DEA-C01

    AWS Certified Developer – Associate

    DVA-C02

    AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate

    MLA-C02

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

    SAA-C03

    You are here

  3. Professional level

    2 certs

    AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional

    AIP-C01

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

    SAP-C02

  4. Specialist level

    2 certs

    AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty

    ANS-C01

    AWS Certified Security – Specialty

    SCS-C03

Customer outcome

Build AWS capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished, and who has passed the practice exam — the view leadership uses to see AWS skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make AWS a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on AWS gives leadership a clear picture of AWS skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Exam
  • SAA-C03

Frequently asked questions about AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate training for their team.

How does AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate fit into our compliance and governance program?

Teams often cite this credential when documenting that the engineers who design AWS accounts, IAM, VPC networking and data encryption have validated architecture skills. CBT Nuggets team reporting supplies per-learner progress, completion and completion exports as audit evidence, while the auditor's control crosswalk decides how the certification formally maps to the framework in use.

Who on the team should hold AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, and what can a certified team own?

IT leaders typically target cloud engineers, solutions architects and administrators moving workloads onto AWS. The linked course prepares them to own account, Region and IAM structure, EC2 launch, monitoring and scaling, VPC design and tunnel connectivity, and web-scale, loosely coupled architectures. It also covers Cognito and enterprise authentication, data encryption, DDoS mitigation with AWS Shield, and REST APIs on API Gateway.

What does CBT Nuggets AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to AWS's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate?

The linked live courses add up to about 35 hours of video per engineer. Actual time to certify depends on the team's starting point with AWS, so engineers already running EC2 and VPC workloads typically move through the material faster than those new to the platform.

What if AWS updates the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates AWS course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When AWS restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

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