Prerequisites
- Strong associate-level AWS knowledge
- Hands-on architecture experience across networking, security, databases, and operations
- 2-3 hours of study time per day
Study Schedule
Week 1 (Days 1-7)Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
- Days 1-2: Organizations, Control Tower, SCPs, IAM Identity Center, delegated admin, and account strategy
- Days 3-4: VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, endpoints, inspection, and Route 53 Resolver
- Day 5: Enterprise security controls, centralized logging, audit, compliance, and cost visibility
- Days 6-7: Domain 1 practice and flashcards
Week 2 (Days 8-14)Design for New Solutions
- Days 8-9: Compute, containers, serverless, scaling, and event-driven architecture
- Days 10-11: Storage and database selection with S3, EFS, FSx, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache
- Day 12: Security, edge, identity, encryption, and private access for new workloads
- Days 13-14: Resilience, DR patterns, global architecture, and Domain 2 practice
Week 3 (Days 15-21)Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions
- Days 15-16: Well-Architected review and operational excellence improvements
- Day 17: Observability with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, X-Ray, centralized logging, and alarms
- Days 18-19: Cost optimization, rightsizing, purchasing models, storage lifecycle, and data transfer
- Days 20-21: Reliability, performance, security improvement, and Domain 3 practice
Week 4 (Days 22-28)Migration, Modernization, and Full Exams
- Days 22-23: 7 Rs, portfolio assessment, landing zones, wave planning, cutover, validation, and rollback
- Days 24-25: Application Migration Service, DMS, SCT, Storage Gateway, DataSync, containers, serverless, and managed database modernization
- Day 26: Full mock exam #1
- Day 27: Review mock exam #1 and rebuild weak notes
- Day 28: Full mock exam #2
Days 29-30Final Review
- Review official SAP-C02 domain weights and weak areas
- Re-run flashcards for organizational complexity, new solutions, continuous improvement, and migration
- Review all cheat sheets
- Rest before exam day
Study Tips
Keep a service-decision matrix for database, integration, compute, and migration choices.
After every wrong answer, identify whether you missed a requirement, tradeoff, or service limit.
Spend the most time on Domain 2 because it carries 29% of scored content.
Schedule full practice exams when you can finish the full 180-minute sitting.
Ready to Practice?
Put your study plan into action with SAP-C02 practice questions.