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SAA-C0326% of the exam

Design Resilient Architectures

Scalable and loosely coupled architectures, and designs that meet a stated recovery time and recovery point objective.

Practise 9 questionsAll of SAA-C03

What this domain is worth

Amazon Web Services publishes this domain at 26% of SAA-C03. On a 50-question scored exam that is roughly 13 questions. It is the second heaviest of the 4 domains, which is why our mock exams allocate questions by weight rather than evenly.

Taken from the published exam guide, checked 2026-09-11.

What it covers

High availability

3

Multi-AZ and multi-Region designs, failover and health checking.

Practise High availability

Decoupling and messaging

3

SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions and the patterns that keep components independent.

Practise Decoupling and messaging

Backup and recovery

2

RTO and RPO, backup strategies, pilot light, warm standby and cross-Region replication.

Practise Backup and recovery

Scaling

1

Auto Scaling groups, scaling policies and designing for elastic load.

Practise Scaling

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