The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Level exam validates advanced technical skills and experience in designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform.

Example concepts you should understand for this exam include:

1. Designing and deploying dynamically scalable, highly available, fault tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS

2. Selecting appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements

3. Migrating complex, multi-tier applications on AWS

4. Designing and deploying enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS

5. Implementing cost control strategies

Prerequisites

Eligible candidates for this exam have:

1. Achieved Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level

2. Two or more years hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS.

3. Abilities to evaluate cloud application requirements and make architectural recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning applications on AWS.

4. Capabilities to provide best practices guidance on the architectural design across multiple applications, projects, or the enterprise.

Exams

Exam Overview:

1. Required Prerequisite: status as Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level

2. Multiple choice and multiple answer questions

3. 180 minutes to complete the exam

4. Exam available in English

5. Recommend taking Architecting on AWS – Advanced Concepts (AWSAAC)

6. Click here to review full details in the exam blueprint

7. Click here to preview sample questions for the exam