AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02)

Cloud architecture risk grows when teams know individual AWS services but cannot choose the right combination of account structure, identity, networking, encryption, governance, resiliency, and cost controls. This expert-level SAP-C02 course is best assigned to senior IT Practitioners, cloud architects, platform engineers, and Team Leads who already know AWS fundamentals such as VPCs, S3 storage classes, and launching EC2 instances. It is not a basics course.

Plan for about 25 hours per learner. The course is scenario-based and cumulative, so Training Managers should assign it in order rather than as disconnected reference videos. That supports change management by helping teams practice how real architectures evolve: design, build, test, evaluate, and improve.

For IT Directors, the value is stronger enterprise architecture judgment: governance guardrails, compliance remediation, identity decisions, resilient design, data risk management, and SAP-C02 exam readiness. CBT Nuggets Playlists, Practice Exams, virtual labs, and Team Reporting help standardize assignments, reinforce hands-on practice, and track team progress.

IT teams complete this training to move beyond AWS memorization and make senior-level architecture decisions under real constraints. The course uses scenario-based projects that mirror how cloud environments are designed, tested, and improved over time.

• Modernize legacy workloads: Evaluate paths for a long-running PHP site hosted in a colo environment and map it into AWS architecture choices.
• Reduce governance and compliance risk: Work through organizational policies, guardrails, centralized compliance, remediation, threat detection, and Control Tower concepts.
• Improve resilience planning: Connect business RPO/RTO conversations to the AWS services and recovery measures that support realistic downtime expectations.
• Manage data exposure: Address risks around collecting too much data, exposed PII, retention requirements, and legal holds while using analytics and data lake tooling.

Knowledge

• Enterprise AWS design tradeoffs across resiliency, security, cost, efficiency, and sustainability.
• When to apply AWS Organizations, IAM Identity Center, CloudTrail, governance policies, and account management patterns.
• How multi-account, hybrid connectivity, VPC endpoints, NAT gateways, DNS, and traffic management fit into larger designs.
• Storage, database, analytics, data lake, migration, edge delivery, and real-time streaming options on AWS.
• How RPO and RTO objectives influence disaster recovery and resilience architecture.

Ability

• Analyze architecture scenarios rather than rely on memorized service facts.
• Evaluate AWS service combinations for enterprise-scale workloads and governance needs.
• Design architectures that balance security, compliance, cost, performance, and operational needs.
• Plan workload migration, deployment automation, event-driven orchestration, and serverless integration patterns.
• Prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) exam with scenario-based practice.