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SAP-C02 New Solutions Guide

Study SAP-C02 New Solutions: key concepts, common traps, and exam decision cues.

This chapter is about designing a new AWS solution from the first serious architecture decision onward. SAP-C02 is testing whether you can choose the right deployment path, resilience posture, security layer, performance model, and cost strategy before implementation details drag you off course.

Current weight in the exam guide

AWS currently weights this domain at 29% of scored content.

Work this domain in order

Lesson Focus
2.1 Deployment Strategy for Business Requirements Learn how IaC, CI/CD, rollback design, and Systems Manager support safer delivery.
2.2 Business Continuity Solution Design Learn how Route 53, replication, DR testing, and backup automation map to continuity goals.
2.3 Security Controls for New Solutions Learn how IAM, security groups, endpoints, WAF, Shield, and encryption fit together.
2.4 Reliability Strategy for New Solutions Learn how Multi-AZ, Multi-Region, quotas, integration patterns, and DNS policies support reliability.
2.5 Performance Objectives Solution Design Learn how instance families, storage, caching, and purpose-built databases drive throughput and latency design.
2.6 Cost Optimization Strategy for New Solutions Learn how data-transfer awareness, storage tiering, and purchase models shape the build.

Fast routing inside this chapter

If the question is really about… Go first to…
CI/CD, CloudFormation, rollback, or managed deployment patterns 2.1 Deployment Strategy for Business Requirements
backup, replication, failover, or DR testing 2.2 Business Continuity Solution Design
least privilege, network boundaries, patching, or edge protection 2.3 Security Controls for New Solutions
HA, loosely coupled components, Route 53 routing, or service quotas 2.4 Reliability Strategy for New Solutions
latency, throughput, rightsizing, caching, or purpose-built data stores 2.5 Performance Objectives Solution Design
rightsizing, purchase models, storage class, or transfer-cost reduction 2.6 Cost Optimization Strategy for New Solutions

What strong answers usually do

  • start with business constraint and service-management level before diving into implementation detail
  • use AWS managed services to reduce undifferentiated ops work where the requirement allows it
  • treat continuity, security, and cost as first-class design inputs instead of afterthoughts
  • distinguish “reliable,” “performant,” and “cheap” as related but not identical goals

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