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Think Like an AWS Solutions Architect

Pick the right AWS design across all four SAA-C03 domains, secure, resilient, high-performing and cost-optimized, one scenario at a time, every answer explained from AWS’s pages.

5 modules

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What it teaches

The four SAA-C03 domains, one exam-style scenario at a time: secure access (roles, SCPs, Control Tower, federation, resource policies), secure workloads (security groups vs network ACLs, NAT, WAF, Shield, Secrets Manager, Cognito), data protection (Object Lock, KMS rotation, ACM, Macie, replication), loose coupling (SQS, FIFO, SNS fanout, API Gateway, load balancers), high availability and DR (Multi-AZ, read replicas, RDS Proxy, the four DR strategies, Route 53 routing), performance (EFS, EBS types, instance store, DAX, Aurora Serverless, CloudFront, Global Accelerator, Transit Gateway, Firehose, Athena, DataSync) and cost (S3 classes and Lifecycle, Requester Pays, Spot, Savings Plans, hibernation, DynamoDB capacity modes, gateway endpoints, NAT per AZ). The AI runs an 8-question check across the four domains, then drills you one question at a time. A wrong pick gets two lines: why the right option is right and why yours isn’t, mostly in AWS’s own words. A missed question comes back a few rounds later, and you answer it with the option’s words, not its letter.

Not real exam questions. Written by Tutorpack from AWS’s public docs; not connected to AWS. The course’s 16/20 pass mark is a safety margin: AWS doesn’t publish how raw answers convert to its 100-1,000 scale.

How long

61 questions. About 50-70 rounds plus a 20-question final test in the exam’s proportions: 3-4 sessions of 20 rounds (estimate, not timed with a real student). The tutor gives a one-line save code at the end of each session; paste it into a new chat to carry on.

The modules

5 modules, drilled one item at a time.

M0
How the SAA-C03 exam works (read first)
How the exam works (read first, no questions)
M1
Design Secure Architectures (Domain 1, 30% of the exam)
Scenario questions: secure architectures
M2
Design Resilient Architectures (Domain 2, 26% of the exam)
Scenario questions: resilient architectures
M3
Design High-Performing Architectures (Domain 3, 24% of the exam)
Scenario questions: high-performing architectures
M4
Design Cost-Optimized Architectures (Domain 4, 20% of the exam)
Scenario questions: cost-optimized architectures

Before it teaches, it asks

1
When is your exam (a date, roughly, or not booked yet)? Have you used AWS before, at work or on your own?
2
Dozens of Linux EC2 instances in several Availability Zones, plus some Lambda functions, need the same shared file system at the same time. Which storage?
A. Amazon EFS
B. One Amazon EBS gp3 volume
C. Instance store
D. S3 Glacier Deep Archive
3
Which statement about security groups and network ACLs is correct?
A. Both are stateful
B. Security groups are stateful; network ACLs are stateless
C. Both are stateless
D. Security groups are stateless; network ACLs are stateful

What’s exact, and what isn’t

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Straight from the course’s own notes.

Sourced: Every key and nearly every reason comes from an AWS page (a few reasons are short plain notes); the links are under each question. All 188 quoted phrases were matched word for word on the live pages.
Checked by script: Every question maps to a real SAA-C03 task statement and every task has at least one; one-answer questions have 4 options, “Choose 2” questions have 5 and exactly 2 keys; every option has a reason; no Ask repeats its answer’s key words; every quote’s page is one the question cites; TUTOR.md matches the banks; right answers spread evenly over A-D (15/15/14/13).
Not checked by script: Whether a scenario’s best answer is the one AWS’s page supports is a judgment made from the quoted lines, then re-checked against AWS’s pages in a test run.
Not in it yet: Containers, Direct Connect and VPN, Glue and Lake Formation, Step Functions, cost reporting tools and more. Task 3.2 (elastic compute) has one question. No prices.