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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Issued by Amazon Web Services · Exam SAA-C03
This is AWS's main architecture certification for designing secure, resilient, fast and cost-aware systems on AWS. It suits engineers and developers with some AWS or strong on-premises experience.
- Exam price
- $150
- Exam time
- 130 min
- Valid for
- 3 years
- Prerequisite
- None required
Exam details
- Price
- $150Retake not included.
- Format
- multiple choice and multiple response
- Questions
- 65 (50 scored, 15 unscored)
- Length
- 130 minutes
- Passing score
- 720 (scale 100-1,000)
- Delivered by
- Pearson VUE (test centre or online proctored)
- Required
- None
- Recommended
- At least 1 year of hands-on experience designing cloud solutions on AWS
- Renewal
- Pass the latest version of the exam, or earn AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
Checked October 29, 2026 against Amazon Web Services's official page. Fields the vendor does not publish are left out rather than estimated.