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AWS Exam Syllabus

SCS-C02 syllabus, skills measured, and exam topics

The AWS SCS-C02 exam covers the official skills measured for AWS Certified Security - Specialty. Use this page to review the current syllabus, major domains, and official resources before you book the exam.

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What to know before you study

These sections explain the role, audience, and exam framing behind the outline.

Introduction

  • The AWS Certified Security - Specialty exam is intended for individuals who have a responsibility to secure cloud solutions. The exam validates a candidate's ability to effectively demonstrate knowledge about securing AWS products and services.
  • The exam also validates a candidate's ability to complete the following tasks:

Target candidate description

  • The target candidate should have the equivalent of 3–5 years of experience securing cloud solutions.

Recommended AWS knowledge

  • The target candidate should have the following AWS knowledge:

Detailed outline

Scan each section as a working study checklist instead of one long wall of text.

Job tasks that are out of scope for the target candidate

  • The following list contains job tasks that the target candidate is not expected to be able to perform. This list is non-exhaustive. These tasks are out of scope for the exam:

Response types

  • The exam includes one or more of the following question types:
  • Unanswered questions are scored as incorrect. There is no penalty for guessing. The exam includes 50 questions that affect your score.

Unscored content

  • The exam includes 15 unscored questions that do not affect your score. AWS collects information about performance on these unscored questions to evaluate these questions for future use as scored questions. These unscored questions are not identified on the exam.

Exam results

  • The AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS-C03) exam has a pass or fail designation. The exam is scored against a minimum standard established by AWS professionals who follow certification industry best practices and guidelines.
  • Your results for the exam are reported as a scaled score of 100–1,000. The minimum passing score is 750. Your score shows how you performed on the exam as a whole and whether you passed. Scaled scoring models help equate scores across multiple exam forms that might have slightly different difficulty levels.
  • Your score report could contain a table of classifications of your performance at each section level. The exam uses a compensatory scoring model, which means that you do not need to achieve a passing score in each section. You need to pass only the overall exam.
  • Each section of the exam has a specific weighting, so some sections have more questions than other sections have. The table of classifications contains general information that highlights your strengths and weaknesses. Use caution when you interpret section-level feedback.