Free SAA-C03 mock exams
Full-length AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate rehearsals: 65 questions in 130 minutes, drawn to the official domain weights and scored on the same scale as the real exam. Pass mark 720 / 1000.
- Questions
- 65~2 min each
- Time limit
- 130 minserver-timed
- Pass mark
- 720on a 100–1000 scale
- Papers
- 3retake any of them
What's in a SAA-C03 mock paper
Each paper draws its questions per domain in the same proportions AWS publishes for the real SAA-C03 — so a mock that goes badly in one domain is telling you something a randomly-drawn quiz couldn't.
| Domain | Official weight | Questions drawn | Share of paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Secure Architectures | 30% | 19 | 29% |
| Design Resilient Architectures | 26% | 17 | 26% |
| Design High-Performing Architectures | 24% | 16 | 25% |
| Design Cost-Optimized Architectures | 20% | 13 | 20% |
| Total | 100% | 65 | 100% |
How to sit a SAA-C03 mock exam
A mock is only diagnostic if you sit it like the real thing. 65 questions in 130 minutes gives you roughly 2 minutes per question — that pacing is the whole skill, and you cannot rehearse it while pausing to look things up.
One sitting, no notes, no pausing
Sit the full 130 minutes in one block. A mock taken with the notes open tells you what you can look up, which is not what the exam measures.
Flag and move
If a question hasn't resolved in about 2 minutes, pick your best option, flag it, and move on. Time spent stuck on one hard question is time taken from several you would have got right.
Second pass on the flags
Come back to the flagged questions with whatever time is left. A later question often jogs the service detail an earlier one needed — that is a genuine effect, not luck, and it is why finishing the first pass fast matters.
Review every question, including the ones you got right
The post-mock review is where the marks are. A correct answer you weren't sure about is a fail waiting to happen on a differently-worded day, so read the explanation on those too — not just the misses.
Score by domain, not overall
The SAA-C03 is scored compensatorily — a strong domain can carry a weak one, so an overall pass can hide a domain you would fail on a bad draw. Take the per-domain breakdown back to the revision notes and close the gap before you retake.