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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

SAP-C02 retires on . Get the team certified on the current exam, or plan the move to AWS training, with a CBT Nuggets demo.

AWS retires the required exam SAP-C02 on . After that, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional can no longer be earned on the current exams. See current AWS training: all AWS certifications.

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Course
1
Practice exam
14
Core skills
$300
Exam fee (AWS)
AWS cloud engineering team reviewing architecture diagrams together
Difficulty
Difficulty: 4 of 5 (Advanced)
Advanced
Exam fee (AWS)
$300
Courses on path
1
Official source
AWS’s official exam page
Exam code
  • SAP-C02

Exam datasheet

Format
Multiple choice or multiple response
Prerequisites
No official prerequisites
Recommended experience
2 or more years of experience using AWS services to design and implement cloud solutions
Recertification
3 years
Testing center

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$300

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional path takes SAP-C02.

  1. SAP-C02AWS Certified Solutions Architect - ProfessionalRetiring Practice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $300
    Exam length
    180 minutes
    Questions
    75 questions
    Passing score
    750 out of 1000

    Exam blueprint: SAP-C02

Skills your team builds

Design Solutions for Organizational ComplexityDesign for New SolutionsContinuous Improvement for Existing SolutionsAccelerate Workload Migration and ModernizationAWS Well-Architected FrameworkOptimizing securitycostand performanceAutomating manual processesEvaluating cloud application requirementsArchitectural recommendations for deployment on AWSExpert guidance on architectural designDesign security and responsible AI controlsImplementing access controls for generative and agentic AI applications

Training path

Your team's training path

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

  1. Start here · primary course

    AWS Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C02)

    Cloud architecture risk rarely comes from not knowing a single AWS service. It comes from choosing the wrong combination of account structure, identity, networking, governance, resilience, and cost controls. This expert-level course builds the architecture judgment senior engineers need to make those calls at enterprise scale and prepares them for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) exam. Built for cloud architects, platform engineers, and Team Leads who already work with AWS, the course follows a fictitious company through scenario-based projects. Learners modernize a legacy PHP site from a colo environment, apply organizational guardrails and centralized compliance remediation, design multi-account and hybrid connectivity, plan migrations, and connect RPO/RTO targets to recovery architecture. Plan for about 25 hours per learner, assigned in order because the projects build on each other across skills. IT Directors and Training Managers can pair the course with CBT Nuggets Playlists, Practice Exams, virtual labs, and Team Reporting to standardize assignments and track progress during a certification push.

    Scott Pletcher
    194 videosPractice exam25h
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Every certification course includes

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

AWS career ladder

Where AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional 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

  3. Professional level

    2 certs

    AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional

    AIP-C01

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

    SAP-C02

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  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 - Professional 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 - Professional

Exam
  • SAP-C02

Frequently asked questions about AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional training

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

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

IT leaders often cite SAP-C02 when documenting that the engineers who design multi-account AWS environments have trained on organizational policies and guardrails, centralized compliance and remediation, and threat detection with Control Tower. CBT Nuggets team reporting adds per-learner completion exports as audit evidence, while the auditor's control crosswalk decides how the credential maps to a specific framework.

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

The credential fits senior solutions architects and cloud platform leads responsible for enterprise-scale AWS design. The linked course prepares them to own identity and resource sharing across accounts, VPC foundations with NAT gateways and VPC endpoints, multi-account and hybrid connectivity, and DNS and traffic management. It also covers compute and auto-scaling, Elastic Container Service and VPC Lattice, data layer and enterprise storage choices, and edge delivery.

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

CBT Nuggets AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional 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 - Professional training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional 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 - Professional?

The linked CBT Nuggets training totals about 25 hours of video across the live courses. How quickly each engineer is ready for SAP-C02 depends on the team's starting point, especially existing hands-on experience with multi-account AWS architecture.

What if AWS updates the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional 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.

Certifying the team before 16 November 2026?

Get every engineer certified before SAP-C02 retires

Assign the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional courses, see who has finished them in the team report, and plan the move to AWS training for the rest of the team.

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