Prerequisites
- Two or more years of hands-on AWS architecture experience
- Strong knowledge of associate-level AWS services
- 4-6 hours of focused study time per day
Study Schedule
Day 1Domain 1: Organizational Complexity
- Review Organizations, Control Tower, SCPs, IAM Identity Center, delegated admin, and multi-account boundaries
- Study hybrid and multi-VPC networking with Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, VPC endpoints, and Route 53 Resolver
- Run organizational complexity flashcards
Day 2Domain 2: New Solution Design - Security and Networking
- Review IAM, KMS, WAF, Shield, CloudFront, private connectivity, and network segmentation
- Study edge protection, origin protection, certificate management, and audit controls
- Take a security/networking practice quiz
Day 3Domain 2: New Solution Design - Compute, Storage, Database, Integration
- Compare EC2, Auto Scaling, Lambda, ECS, EKS, Fargate, and Batch
- Review S3, EBS, EFS, FSx, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and Redshift
- Study SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions, and API Gateway
Day 4Resilience and Disaster Recovery
- Compare backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby, and active-active
- Review Route 53 failover, Aurora Global Database, DynamoDB global tables, S3 replication, and multi-Region architecture
- Write an RPO/RTO comparison table
Day 5Domain 3: Continuous Improvement
- Review Well-Architected pillars and improvement recommendations
- Study CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, X-Ray, Systems Manager, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and cost tools
- Take a continuous-improvement quiz
Day 6Domain 4: Migration and Modernization
- Review the 7 Rs, migration waves, landing zones, cutover, validation, and rollback
- Study Migration Hub, Application Migration Service, DMS, SCT, Storage Gateway, containers, and serverless modernization
- Take a full 75-question timed mock exam
Day 7Final Professional Review
- Review every missed mock exam question and map it to a domain
- Re-read networking, security, resilience, migration, and cost cheat sheets
- Run all SAP-C02 flashcards
- Take one more timed exam if stamina allows
Study Tips
SAP-C02 is about tradeoffs. Always identify constraints before picking a service.
Do not use old five-domain study notes as your primary outline. The current guide has four domains.
Professional questions often have multiple workable answers; choose the one that best fits cost, operations, risk, and scale.
Practice the 180-minute timer because stamina matters.
Ready to Practice?
Put your study plan into action with SAP-C02 practice questions.