Preporato

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate course

4 modules, one per exam domain. 89 lessons, each ending in a checkpoint; 6 timed practice tests.

One purchase covers the lessons and the tests.

SAA-C03 course by Preporato: the four AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam domains as a bar chart, heaviest to lightest

What does the SAA‑C03 course cover?

Every module is one of the 4 exam domains Amazon Web Services (AWS) publishes, in exam order, with the domain's share of the exam as its bar. Design Secure Architectures and Design Resilient Architectures carry the most at 30% and 26%. The exam runs 130 minutes for 65 questions (50 scored, 15 unscored). Open a module for its lessons; the practice tests close the course.

What does a lesson look like?

Lesson 1.1, played through: read the concept, study the architecture, pass the checkpoint, and the next lesson is queued. Every lesson in the course runs this way; 176 diagrams and 334 checkpoints in all.

SAA-C031.1

1.1IAM fundamentals: users, groups, roles and policies45 min

Imagine your first week at Trailbase, a small startup that runs a hiking app on AWS. The whole company signs in with the same credentials: the root account email and password, taped to a note in the team chat.

It works fine, right up until it does not.

IAM answers two questions for every single request that touches your account: who is making it, and are they allowed to do this.

How long does it take to prepare with this course?

About 41 hours of lessons, 89 of them at roughly 28 minutes each. The modules run in exam order, so the heaviest domains come first. Pick a pace and the plan lays itself out.

  1. Week 1Design Secure Architectures10h 50m of lessons
  2. Week 2Review the domains you missedPractice test 1
  3. Week 3Design Resilient ArchitecturesPractice test 29h 20m of lessons
  4. Week 4Review the domains you missedPractice test 3
  5. Week 5Design High-Performing ArchitecturesPractice test 413h 15m of lessons
  6. Week 6Review the domains you missedPractice test 5
  7. Week 7Design Cost-Optimized ArchitecturesPractice test 6 · Schedule the exam once you clear 75% on a fresh test8h of lessons

Is it enough to pass?

The SAA-C03 isn't hard because of obscure AWS services - it's hard because questions present scenarios where 2-3 answers could work, and you must choose the BEST one based on subtle requirements.

Understanding WHY an answer is correct matters more than knowing THAT it's correct. This is what separates passing from failing. Those domains have their own modules here, with the same weight the exam gives them.

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  • BRO WHERE YOU GO THESE QUESTIONS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

    ILL BET EVERYTHING EVERY ECONOMIC I HAVE THAT IF YOU PASS THESE TESTS YOU WILL PASS THE EXAM

    Verified purchase · May 2026

  • Strong technical coverage with good depth

    Coverage of core services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudFront) is excellent and these dominate the actual exam. The architectural reasoning skills developed here are what really helped me succeed. Scored 772. Timed mode is essential for building stamina. Would give 5 stars if there were more practice with multi-region failover scenarios since those tripped me up a bit on the real exam. Overall very solid resource.

    Verified purchase · Nov 2025

  • Good

    Question coverage is really good. Explanations help a lot too

    Verified purchase · Jan 2026

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