From the course: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) Cert Prep

Exam overview - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) Cert Prep

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Exam overview

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- [Instructor] In 2013, Amazon Web Services began its Global Certification Program with a primary purpose of validating the technical skills and knowledge of IT professionals for building secure and reliable cloud-based applications using the AWS platform. The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam was the first AWS certification that was released in that year. This is followed by two other role-based certification exams, CSOPs administrator and developer associate. Since then, AWS has continuously expanded the certification program, launching the professional and specialty level certifications that cover the various domains, such as machine learning, data analytics, advanced networking and many others. As AWS services continue to evolve, a new and updated version of the AWS certification exam is released on a regular basis. This is to reflect the recent service changes and to include the new knowledge areas. After almost five years since its initial release, an updated version of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Certification was launched in February, 2018 with an exam code of SAA-C01 and after two years, AWS released another version of this test with an exam code of SAA-C02 in March, 2020. This is followed by yet another new exam version released in August, 2022. The following version of the certification test has an exam code of SAA-C03 which contains the new services that were recently released by AWS. As you can notice, the last digit of the exam version code increments for every new version of the SAA exam. So from SAA-C01, it becomes SAA-C02, SAA-C03, SAA-C04 and so on and so forth. Knowing the latest exam code is important for finding the most updated reviewers for this AWS exam. The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam is intended for IT professionals who perform a solutions architect or DevOps role and have substantial use of Amazon experience, designing available, cost efficient, fault tolerant and scalable distributed systems on the AWS platform. It is composed of scenario-based questions that can either be in multiple choice or multiple response formats. The first question type has one correct answer and three incorrect responses, while the latter has two or more correct responses out of five or more options. You can take the exam from a local testing center or online from the comfort of your home. The exam has 65 questions that you should complete within two hours and 10 minutes. The score range for this test is from 100 to 1000 with a minimum passing score of 720. AWS is using a scaled scoring model to acquit scores across multiple exam types that may have different difficulty levels. The complete score report will be sent to you by email after a few days. Individuals who unfortunately did not pass the AWS exam, must wait for 14 days before they're allowed to retake the exam. There's no hard limit on the number of exam attempts, so you can try again and again until you pass the exam. Take note that on each attempt, the full registration price of the exam must be paid. Within five business days of repeating your exam, your AWS certification account will level a record of your complete exam results. The score report contains a table of your performance for each exam domain, which indicates whether you met the competency level required for this domains or not. AWS is using a compensatory scoring model, which means that you do not necessarily need to pass each and every individual section. You'll pass this exam as long as you get an overall score of 720 across four domains. Each section has a specific score rating that translates to the number of questions. Hence, some sections have more questions than others. Your score performance table highlights your strengths and weaknesses that you need to improve on.

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