SAA-C03 & SAP-C02: AWS Solutions Architect Bootcamp

AWS Solutions Architect Bootcamp Overview (SAA-C03 and SAP-C02)

This AWS Solutions Architect bootcamp is a six-day, instructor-led path to both AWS Solutions Architect certifications. Most people earn the associate credential, then intend to come back for the professional one and never do. This camp closes that gap in a single trip: SAA-C03 for AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate and SAP-C02 for AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, both exams taken while you attend.

The camp is taught using two official Amazon courses rather than third-party material: Architecting on AWS and Advanced Architecting on AWS. The first half builds the architecture from the ground up, covering compute, storage, databases, networking, security, monitoring, containers, serverless and edge services against the AWS Well-Architected Framework. The second half changes the scale of the question, moving from designing one workload to designing across a complex organization: multi-account governance with AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower, hybrid connectivity with AWS Direct Connect and Site-to-Site VPN, large-scale data stores, DDoS protection, encryption strategy, migration of existing workloads, and cost optimization as an ongoing discipline.

Both exams are the current versions. SAA-C03 runs 130 minutes with 65 questions and carries a passing score of 720. SAP-C02 runs 180 minutes with 75 questions and a passing score of 750. You leave the camp with two AWS certifications, each valid for three years, instead of one.

Who This AWS Solutions Architect Course Is For

Both exams target the solutions architect role, so this camp is built for the people who actually design what runs on AWS. It suits cloud and solutions architects who own the design of AWS workloads and have to justify those designs against security, resilience, performance and cost. It suits infrastructure, systems and network engineers whose remit has moved into the cloud and who now size compute, choose storage classes, lay out VPCs and select database services. It suits DevOps and platform engineers responsible for deployment strategy, resilience and operational excellence across environments.

The professional half in particular fits engineers whose scope has grown past a single application: architects working across multiple AWS accounts and business units, consultants who must give architectural guidance rather than build a single stack, and technical leads running a migration or modernization programme. If your job increasingly involves telling other teams which design is correct, the SAP-C02 half of this camp is aimed squarely at you.

What You'll Learn in SAA-C03 (Solutions Architect Associate)

SAA-C03 validates your ability to design solutions on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, across four content domains in Amazon's own weightings:

• Design Secure Architectures (30%): the largest domain, covering secure access to AWS resources, secure workloads and applications, and the data security controls that protect information at rest and in transit.
• Design Resilient Architectures (26%): scalable and loosely coupled architectures, and highly available or fault-tolerant designs that keep running when a component does not.
• Design High-Performing Architectures (24%): choosing high-performing storage, elastic compute, database solutions, scalable network architectures, and data ingestion and transformation solutions.
• Design Cost-Optimized Architectures (20%): sizing storage, compute, databases and networking for cost as a design input rather than an afterthought.

Hands-on labs run throughout, including deploying an EC2 instance with the AWS API tools, building your own VPC infrastructure, adding a database layer to it, building a serverless architecture, and configuring an Amazon CloudFront distribution over an Amazon S3 origin.

What You'll Learn in SAP-C02 (Solutions Architect Professional)

SAP-C02 is the advanced exam, and it moves from building a workload to making architectural decisions across an organization. Its four domains, again in Amazon's weightings:

• Design for New Solutions (29%): the largest domain, covering deployment strategy, business continuity, security controls, reliability, performance objectives and cost optimization for solutions being designed from scratch.
• Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity (26%): network connectivity strategy, prescribing security controls, resilient architecture, multi-account AWS environments, and cost visibility across them.
• Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions (25%): strategies to improve operational excellence, security, performance and reliability on architectures already in production, and to find the cost savings inside them.
• Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization (20%): selecting workloads for migration, evaluating them against the seven common migration strategies, choosing the migration approach and tooling, and identifying what should be modernized rather than moved as is.

The professional course closes with a capstone project, working through real architecting decisions on Transit Gateway, hybrid connectivity, migration and cost optimization.

Why Choose This AWS Solutions Architect Camp

Two AWS exams in six days is a demanding stretch, and doing it with an Amazon Authorized Instructor, official AWS labs and both exams booked before you leave beats the far more common outcome of passing the associate exam and never getting round to the professional one. You also sit them in the right order, days apart, while the associate material is still fresh, which is the single biggest advantage this format has over studying for SAP-C02 alone months later.

• 6-day accelerated format: two courses, two exams, two certifications, one trip.
• Taught by an Amazon Authorized Instructor (AAI), not a generalist.
• 95% first-attempt pass rate, with a retake voucher for each exam if you need it.
• Two official AWS exam vouchers included for SAA-C03 and SAP-C02, with no hidden exam fees.
• Two official Amazon AWS courses, Architecting on AWS and Advanced Architecting on AWS, plus official AWS hands-on labs and vetted practice tests.
• Exams delivered by Pearson VUE, onsite at the training facility or online.
• 90 days of extended lab access after the camp ends.
• Classroom live in Sarasota, FL, or remote classroom live, the same instructor-led class either way.
• Classes run as scheduled, with no cancellations, so you can book travel with confidence.