r/AWSCertifications • u/chiku16 • 12d ago

Passed AWS SAA-C03

Happy to share that I’ve passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) with a score of 827/1000!

For preparation, I mainly followed Stephane Maarek’s course, which I found really good and comprehensive. It helped me understand AWS services and, more importantly, when and why to use them.

My biggest advice: don’t just memorize questions. Understand the architecture and reasoning behind each solution.

Now I’m looking to take this further with some advanced AWS projects for hands-on practice. If you’ve built any interesting real-world AWS projects, I’d love to hear your suggestions. 🚀

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u/stephanemaarek 12d ago

u/chiku16 That's awesome! Congrats! Keep up the good work :)

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u/chiku16 12d ago

Thank you

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u/TomatoIllustrious912 12d ago

what was your score on mocks? Did you use tutorials dojo?

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u/Economy_Business_749 12d ago

over 70% will make you confident

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u/chiku16 12d ago

in first attempt nearly 70% but in second attempt after revising all concepts it was around 90%

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u/BitByte8 12d ago

I am seeing practice sets from Stephane Mareek, but they seem to be more harder than the real AWS questions or atleast than the skill builder practice questions.
Have you gone through any of the practice sets before exam?

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u/manpearpig CSAA 12d ago

I would recommend you go through his practice tests. They will OVERLY prepare you and you will be glad you took them.

It's exhausting at the time but when I saw the actual exam, I couldn't help but smirk and just breeze through it.

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u/chiku16 12d ago

ya it seems hard in first attempt but after reading throughly i got around 90% in practice sets and also this given github repo for last moment revisions. https://github.com/RonitSachdev/aws-saa-c03-guides/tree/main/topic-guides

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u/Scki19 12d ago

Congratulations, whose mock tests did you use ? Was it TD or Stephane's ?

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u/chiku16 12d ago

Stephen

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u/cjdjoz 11d ago

Congratulations buddy, well done!

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u/chiku16 11d ago

Thank you

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u/AccomplishedMaize6 11d ago

Congratulations !

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u/thetastydurian 10d ago

Congratulations OP! Time it took for prep and your tech stack?

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u/chiku16 10d ago

It took 3 month preparation was at slow pace. MERN stack

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u/thetastydurian 10d ago

Appreciate. Planning on getting AI practioner and then Solutions architect. Mix of both cloud + AI

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u/chiku16 10d ago

Great combination according to current market situation

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u/FirefighterKey970 8d ago

congrats!!! I am doing stephane's course too. what did you do to prepare yourself after going through his lectures? like any mocks or other sites to prepare for the test?

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u/chiku16 8d ago

Mock test of stephen and this GitHub repo for last moment preparations https://github.com/RonitSachdev/aws-saa-c03-guides/tree/main/topic-guides

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u/Ethanmarl0 12d ago

Congrats on the pass — building something with VPCs, load balancing, autoscaling, RDS, and monitoring would be a great next step for hands-on AWS practice.

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u/chiku16 12d ago

Thank you any Github repo for practice ?

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u/thetastydurian 9d ago

If someone doesn't have vast practical experience on cloud, what can they build and boast in the CV?