Prerequisites
- Associate-level AWS certification knowledge or equivalent experience
- 1-2 hours of study time per day
- Access to AWS documentation and optional hands-on labs
Study Schedule
Month 1 (Days 1-30)Enterprise Foundations and New Architecture Design
- Week 1: Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, IAM Identity Center, SCPs, and account strategy
- Week 2: VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, Route 53, endpoints, and hybrid DNS
- Week 3: Compute, containers, serverless, application integration, and API patterns
- Week 4: Storage, databases, security, edge architecture, and Domain 1/2 practice
Month 2 (Days 31-60)Resilience, Operations, Cost, and Continuous Improvement
- Week 5: Multi-AZ, multi-Region, DR patterns, RPO/RTO, failover, and restore testing
- Week 6: Well-Architected, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, X-Ray, Systems Manager, and centralized operations
- Week 7: Cost optimization, purchasing models, storage lifecycle, data transfer, and governance
- Week 8: Security improvement, threat detection, compliance automation, and Domain 3 practice
Month 3 (Days 61-90)Migration, Modernization, and Exam Readiness
- Week 9: Migration assessment, 7 Rs, landing zones, waves, cutover, and rollback
- Week 10: MGN, DMS, SCT, Storage Gateway, DataSync, containers, serverless, and managed service modernization
- Week 11: Full mock exam #1, explanation review, and weak-domain remediation
- Week 12: Full mock exam #2, flashcards, cheat sheets, and final review
Study Tips
Read scenarios as an architect: identify business goals, constraints, risks, and operations before choosing technology.
SAP-C02 rewards breadth and tradeoff judgment more than isolated service trivia.
Review the current four-domain guide monthly to avoid drifting into retired domain names.
Use full-length practice exams to build the endurance needed for 75 questions in 180 minutes.
Ready to Practice?
Put your study plan into action with SAP-C02 practice questions.