Professional AWS Solutions Architect Practice Tests

Test your survival skills with the AWS Solutions Architect Exam Simulator

Exam Facts (or Fears)

  • 75 scenario style questions designed to make you second-guess everything you thought you knew about AWS
  • All multiple choice or multiple response because Amazon enjoys watching you pick the “least wrong” option
  • You get 180 minutes. That’s three hours of cloud design gladiator combat
  • Passing score: 750 out of 1000, which feels suspiciously like Vegas odds

AWS Professional Exam Topics

  • Domain 1: Design for Organizational Complexity 26%
  • Domain 2: Design for New Solutions 29%
  • Domain 3: Migration Planning and Execution 25%
  • Domain 4: Cost Control and Continuous Improvement 20%

AWS Solutions Architect Professional Exam Objectives

Exam Overview

  • The exam tests your ability to design AWS environments where nothing ever breaks (in theory)
  • Scenarios cover hybrid complexity, multi-account chaos, and migration headaches
  • Requires deep knowledge of networking, storage, compute, databases, and every AWS service you’ve ever heard of (and some you haven’t)
  • Intended for architects with two or more years of experience but feels like you need ten

Domain 1: Organizational Complexity 26%

  • Design multi-account strategies with Organizations SCPs and still keep your sanity
  • Handle compliance, governance, and legal fun without violating budgets or laws
  • Integrate dozens of VPCs without creating a spaghetti monster of peering links

Domain 2: New Solutions 29%

  • Design greenfield solutions with everything from AI/ML to IoT without melting the credit card
  • Use modern architectures like serverless, containers, and event-driven designs
  • Balance scalability, security, and developer happiness which is basically impossible

Domain 3: Migration Adventures 25%

  • Plan and execute lift-and-shift migrations without dropping half the data
  • Modernize applications for cloud while keeping business leaders from panicking
  • Design cutover, hybrid, and DR strategies that actually work when tested

Domain 4: Cost Wizardry 20%

  • Apply Reserved Instances and Savings Plans so your CFO doesn’t faint
  • Use tagging, budgets, and reports to prove the cloud bill is only half your fault
  • Architect for efficiency without sacrificing reliability (good luck with that)

What is Not Included

  • No coding questions. You are safe from writing Python under pressure
  • No “which font size is best in your diagram” trick questions
  • No miracles. If your design is bad, no AWS service will save it

Why Bother Getting Certified

  • Instant bragging rights on LinkedIn complete with confetti reactions
  • Employers think you can actually untangle their messy AWS accounts
  • Improves your cloud credibility and may even get you fewer “just reboot it” tickets
  • Looks great on a résumé and pairs well with a cup of coffee and imposter syndrome
  • You get a shiny badge to flex in Slack channels forever

Preparation Tips

  • Study the official exam guide but expect the scenarios to be ten times trickier
  • Take endless practice tests until your brain starts drawing VPC diagrams in your sleep
  • Spend time in AWS accounts breaking things and fixing them again
  • Review Well-Architected Framework principles like they are commandments
  • Bring patience confidence and possibly coffee when test day arrives