The SAA-C03 practice test repository that ships no questions
⛳️ PASS: Amazon Web Services Certified (AWS Certified) Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) by learning based on our Questions & Answers (Q&A) Practice Tests Exams.
At a glance
- What is it?
- Ditectrev/AWS-Certified-Solutions-Architect-Associate-SAA-C03-Practice-Tests-Exams-Questions-Answers is a repository whose open tree holds a README, a few images and a changelog, while the 772 questions it advertises are sold as EPUB and PDF downloads. That split makes it a storefront with a Git history rather than a question bank you can clone.
- Who is it for?
- Use this repository as a syllabus map and as a record of how a question set gets corrected, and treat the question bank itself as a paid product you buy rather than an open artifact you depend on. Do not expect a clone to give you practice questions, because nothing in the open tree contains them, and do not plan around the 772-question figure without checking the sample.
- Can I use it commercially?
- Not without permission. GitHub finds no licence file in the repository, and without a licence all rights are reserved by default: you may read the code but not reuse it. Check the README, or ask the authors, before using it.
- Is it still maintained?
- Yes. The repository last received commits 13 days ago.
- What is it written in?
- GitHub does not report a main language for this repository.
Answers come from the project's GitHub data, last synced on October 24, 2026, and from our analysis. They are not legal advice.
Editorial analysis
Four files, one README, and a question bank you cannot see
The most important fact about this repository is visible in its top level listing and is easy to miss if you arrive through a search result that describes it as a practice test bank. The entries are .github/, .gitignore, README.md and images/. There is no questions directory, no JSON or YAML file of items, no exporter script, and no data format of any kind.
The questions live elsewhere. The README lists paid formats: EPUB and PDF downloads through shop.ditectrev.com in versions with answers marked and without answers marked, printable paperback or hardcover editions on Amazon with a Kindle version, Google Play Books listings in PDF, Etsy listings in PDF, eBay listings in PDF, and a Patreon subscription that grants access to all of the content in EPUB and PDF and includes updates. A Udemy course is listed separately, and the README notes it is the only one of those offerings to carry explanations for questions.
So the open repository is a landing page with a version history attached. What it genuinely offers a reader is a syllabus, a statement of what the product claims, and a changelog of corrections. That is a real thing to evaluate, but it is not the same as a question bank, and any review that says otherwise is describing the paid product rather than the repository.
The project listing gives a homepage of education.ditectrev.com, and the description in the listing frames the whole thing as learning by question and answer practice.
The syllabus the README enumerates
Because the open tree is thin, the topic list in the README carries most of the informational weight. It runs to a long enumeration of AWS service and concept names: Access Control, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon Resource Names, Amazon Route 53, Amazon Simple Storage Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service, Authentication and Authorization, Availability Zones, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Direct Connect, AWS Identity and Access Management, AWS Key Management Service, AWS Storage Gateway, Cloud Concepts, Compliancy Governance Identity and Privacy, Elastic IP, inbound and outbound data traffic, Input/Output operations Per Second, Public and Private Cloud, Service Level Agreement, Software as a Service, and Virtual Private Clouds.
The repository topic tags track a similar list, including amazon-cloudfront, amazon-cloudwatch, amazon-dynamodb, amazon-ebs, amazon-ec2, amazon-resource-names, amazon-route53, amazon-s3, aws-direct-connect, aws-iam, iops, service-level-agreement, solution-architecture and practice-exam.
Two claims in the README are worth separating from the topic list. The first is the count: 772 unique questions. The second is the claim that the practice tests simulate the actual exam content, timing and percentage required to pass, and that the questions are similar to the exam without duplications. Both are unverifiable from the open tree, since the questions are not in it. A reader can only check them after paying, which makes the count effectively a marketing number rather than a fact you can inspect. The README also states plainly that this is not an exam dump, and that brain dumps and exam dumps are not what it practices.
The commit history is a proofreading log
The releases tell a story that is unusually transparent for a commercial product, because every version is described as a correction to the question set. The listed tags begin at v1.0.0 on August 11, 2023, described as the launch of the course. v1.0.1 on November 8, 2023 fixed all remaining typos with the support of automated proofreading software. v1.0.2 on January 18, 2024 fixed one wrong answer. v1.0.3 on February 21, 2024 improved one question and fixed its wrong answer. v1.1.0 on May 8, 2024 improved multiple questions, typos, and fixed broken links.
The largest change is v2.0.0 on June 17, 2024, which added 66 new questions, deleted 6 duplicated questions, and continued fixing. The repository listing adds two later tags: v2.1.0 on March 25, 2025, and v2.2.0 on October 17, 2025. The last push was on 2026-10-11 and the repository is not archived.
Read as an engineering log, this says something specific. The content is maintained by hand, question by question, and a single incorrect answer key is treated as a release-worthy defect. That is reassuring about the quality process, and it is also a warning about the artifact you are buying. A set where individual wrong answers, typos and broken links each warrant a tagged release is a set assembled and edited by hand, and the pace of correction is roughly one tagged version per few months. Anyone planning to sit the exam should assume the version they buy lags the exam blueprint and check which tag they are getting. The first version is a little over three years old at the time of the last push, and the exam content it was written against will have moved.
The support list is a distribution strategy, not a courtesy
A dozen storefronts appear in the README, and the reason for their variety is stated plainly: in exchange for support, you get the content in a proper format. The formats differ in ways that matter to a buyer rather than to a reader, since one variant has answers marked and another does not, which makes the unmarked version usable as a closed-book mock and the marked version usable as a study aid. A Patreon subscription is presented as the only route that includes all updates for the EPUB and PDF formats, because the subscription technically allows every update to be included.
Two revenue lines sit alongside the shop. The README discloses that it carries a commission on the recommended interactive courses, a Coursera video course described as official by Amazon Web Services and an Educative text-based course that includes set up Cloud Labs so you can practise hands-on without setting up an environment or paying for one, and it says plainly, yes, we have a little commission from these links. There is also a Discord community link and an invitation to a live online community with a course taught by industry experts.
The refund clause is the most unusual part. The README asks that if you fail, you submit a screenshot of your exam result and request a refund, noting that this is handled through an upcoming platform and is not possible on Udemy, and states that the refund will always be accepted. From a buyer's perspective that is a strong risk reversal, and it is also the mechanism that makes the failed-attempt scenario legible: the request for a screenshot of the exam result is direct evidence that the product is aimed at the moment of the exam, not at long-term skill building.
No licence file and no code to read
The licensing situation is thin, and for a repository whose entire content is a paid product, that matters. The project listing records the licence as unknown, and there is no LICENSE file in the top level listing, which contains only .github/, .gitignore, README.md and images/. So there is no stated redistribution grant for the repository contents, and no statement about whether the questions may be copied, reformatted, or shared with colleagues in a study group.
That is different from a normal code repository, where a licence file settles the question of reuse in one line. Here the reusable thing is the paid content, and the rules for it are set by the shop and the subscription terms rather than by an open licence. If your interest is in building a shared study group or an internal quiz tool, raise that with the author before circulating anything. This is a note about where the terms live, not legal advice, and the separate question of using AWS trademarks and service names in study content is one the author, and any employer training budget, should be comfortable with.
There is also no code to review. Nothing in this repository can be checked for correctness, and the only inspectable artefacts are prose and images. Every statement about the quality of the questions, their similarity to the exam, or the number of them rests on the author's own description.
The alternative is a course with labs, not more questions
The repository itself points at the alternative, and it is a different approach rather than a competing question set. The recommended Coursera option is a video-based course described as official by Amazon Web Services, and the recommended Educative option is text-based, video-free, and includes Cloud Labs set up out of the box so you can practise hands-on without provisioning an environment or paying for it.
The difference in approach is the point. Practice questions test recall of service names and design patterns, which is what a multiple-choice exam measures and what a repository like this one optimises for. A lab course asks you to build something, provision a VPC, configure a service, and observe what breaks, which is a different skill and a different failure of preparation: someone can pass a question bank and still have never deployed anything. The README itself concedes the point, saying it is great to learn these questions as exam preparation and that you should pass just based on that, while recommending more interactive learning for anyone who wants to become an expert.
For an individual candidate on a deadline, a question bank is the cheaper and faster route to familiarity with the exam format. For a team that owns AWS infrastructure, the lab-based route is the one that survives contact with an incident, and the repository's own framing of itself as a storefront that steers you toward those courses is an honest signal about what it is good for.
Editorial conclusion
Use this repository as a syllabus map and as a record of how a question set gets corrected, and treat the question bank itself as a paid product you buy rather than an open artifact you depend on. Do not expect a clone to give you practice questions, because nothing in the open tree contains them, and do not plan around the 772-question figure without checking the sample. Verify first that the version you buy matches the SAA-C03 blueprint you are sitting, and read the licence situation yourself, since no licence file is listed at the repository root.
Frequently asked questions
Does the Ditectrev AWS SAA-C03 practice tests repository contain the exam questions?
No. The top level of the repository contains only .github/, .gitignore, README.md and images/, and the README points to paid EPUB, PDF and print editions plus a Patreon subscription and a Udemy course. The open tree holds the syllabus, the product description and the changelog rather than the questions themselves.
How many questions are in the AWS SAA-C03 practice tests, and are they similar to the real exam?
The README states 772 unique questions and says the practice tests simulate the exam content, timing and percentage required to pass, without duplicating questions. The README also states that this is not an exam dump. Because the questions are not in the open repository, the count cannot be checked there.
What is the update history of the Ditectrev SAA-C03 practice tests?
v1.0.0 on August 11, 2023 launched the course, and later versions fixed typos, a wrong answer, a question, broken links, and in v2.0.0 on June 17, 2024 added 66 new questions and deleted 6 duplicated ones. The listing also shows v2.1.0 on March 25, 2025 and v2.2.0 on October 17, 2025, with the last push on 2026-10-11.
What happens if I fail the exam after buying the Ditectrev SAA-C03 practice tests?
The README asks you to submit a screenshot of your exam result and request a refund, and says the refund will always be accepted. It notes that this is handled through an upcoming platform and is not possible on Udemy.
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