AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
This AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional course covers advanced AWS architecture for professionals who design and implement cloud solutions across multiple applications and accounts. Participants study security, cost control, performance optimization, reliability, migration planning, governance, and automation of manual tasks.
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Description
This AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional course covers advanced AWS architecture for professionals who design and implement cloud solutions across multiple applications and accounts.
Participants study security, cost control, performance optimization, reliability, migration planning, governance, and automation of manual tasks.
Training combines instructor-led lessons, architecture scenarios, exam-style questions, and practical exercises using AWS services and AWS Builder Labs where available.
After completion, participants can assess requirements, choose suitable AWS services, document architecture decisions, and prepare for the 180-minute, 75-question professional certification exam.
What You Will Learn
Module 1: Organizational Architecture on AWS
Design multi-account environments with AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, service control policies, centralized logging, and account governance patterns.
Plan hybrid and cloud network connectivity with Amazon VPC, AWS Direct Connect, AWS VPN, Route 53 Resolver, VPC endpoints, and transitive routing.
Apply security controls with IAM, IAM Identity Center, AWS KMS, AWS Certificate Manager, CloudTrail, IAM Access Analyzer, Security Hub, and Amazon Inspector.
Module 2: New Solution Design
Use the AWS Well-Architected Framework to assess security, reliability, performance, cost, and operations requirements.
Plan deployment methods with AWS CloudFormation, CI/CD concepts, rollback approaches, and AWS Systems Manager.
Design highly available systems with Multi-AZ and multi-Region patterns, Amazon Route 53 routing policies, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, and AWS Step Functions.
Module 3: Security and Responsible AI Controls
Design content filtering and compliance controls for generative AI workloads using Amazon Bedrock Guardrails.
Plan identity and access controls for generative and agentic AI applications using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity and IAM patterns.
Create human oversight workflows with approval steps, audit trails, and exception handling using AWS Step Functions.
Module 4: Continuous Improvement, Migration, and Modernization
Review logging, monitoring, alerting, remediation, cost control, and performance using Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Compute Optimizer, and S3 Storage Lens.
Assess migration candidates with AWS Migration Hub, Application Discovery Service, and the 7Rs migration model.
Select modernization options with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, Amazon Aurora Serverless, DynamoDB, Amazon EventBridge, and Step Functions.
Training may include lectures, architecture discussions, scenario-based case studies, hands-on labs, and exam-style practice questions. After completion, participants should be able to assess complex AWS requirements, compare architecture options, design security and responsible AI controls for generative AI workloads, and prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam. The responsible AI topic aligns with the SAP-C02 exam guide task covering security and responsible AI controls. ([docs.aws.amazon.com](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-certification/latest/solutions-architect-professional-02/solutions-architect-professional-02.html?utm_source=openai))
Certification & Exam
This course prepares participants for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional certification exam, exam code SAP-C02. The exam is for experienced solutions architects who design and implement AWS cloud solutions using the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
It is a 180-minute, pass or fail exam with 75 questions: 65 scored questions and 10 unscored questions. Question types include multiple-choice and multiple-response items.
Unanswered questions are marked incorrect, but there is no penalty for guessing. Results are reported on a scaled score from 100 to 1,000, with 750 as the minimum passing score. The certification is valid for 3 years.
What You Will Achieve
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
Apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework to evaluate architecture decisions for security, reliability, performance, cost, and operational readiness.
Design multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, IAM, IAM Identity Center, centralized logging, and governance controls.
Architect resilient and highly available solutions across Availability Zones and AWS Regions using RTO, RPO, backup, replication, failover, and disaster recovery patterns.
Implement security controls for complex AWS workloads, including least privilege access, encryption with AWS KMS, certificate management with AWS Certificate Manager, network controls, and monitoring with AWS CloudTrail and AWS Security Hub.
Design security and responsible AI controls for generative and agentic AI workloads using Amazon Bedrock Guardrails for content filtering, AgentCore Identity for agent access control, and AWS Step Functions for approval workflows and AI operations. ([docs.aws.amazon.com](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-certification/latest/solutions-architect-professional-02/solutions-architect-professional-02.html?utm_source=openai))
Evaluate deployment and operations strategies using infrastructure as code, AWS CloudFormation, CI/CD concepts, AWS Systems Manager, Amazon CloudWatch, and automated remediation practices.
Analyze performance and cost data using AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Compute Optimizer, tagging, rightsizing, and AWS pricing models such as Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.
Plan workload migration and modernization approaches using the 7Rs, AWS Migration Hub, AWS Application Migration Service, AWS Database Migration Service, AWS DataSync, AWS Direct Connect, VPN, and Route 53.
Select appropriate AWS services for modern application architectures, including Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, EventBridge, and AWS Step Functions.
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