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.
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.
What it covers
High availability
3Multi-AZ and multi-Region designs, failover and health checking.
Practise High availability →Decoupling and messaging
3SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions and the patterns that keep components independent.
Practise Decoupling and messaging →Backup and recovery
2RTO and RPO, backup strategies, pilot light, warm standby and cross-Region replication.
Practise Backup and recovery →