SAP-C02 deep review — September 28, 2026

The entire guide and 187 knowledge/skill bullets across 20 tasks were reviewed against the four domain pages, root blueprint and in-scope appendix. The broad snapshot is unchanged. The current C02 retirement notice remains inconsistent: November 16 in the September announcement, November 17 on the credential page. Registration and detailed C03 objectives are announced for October 27. No additional exam retirement notice was found.

Learner improvements

Four original worked cases explain end-to-end recovery time, transfer backlog, peering growth and commitment utilization. The existing 42 answer explanations remain. Eight labs gain clearer availability and recovery-evidence boundaries; none was run in AWS.

Add Snowball Edge, Application Discovery Service, Migration Hub and Timestream for LiveAnalytics new-customer restrictions. Qualify App Runner access and alternatives while preserving current exam concepts. Its product page says April 30, 2026, while API documentation says March 31; both are past, but the historical discrepancy remains unresolved. No retirement of Application Migration Service or all Timestream products is inferred.

Public Pluralsight metadata still lists 49 hours, 15 courses and three labs. O'Reilly/Udemy access blocks and Skill Builder/Whizlabs shells limit current metadata and lesson verification. Replace unsupported precision with planning estimates and keep Places to learn last.

Article intake

The August 13 residency/recovery article is accepted as a discussion framework, with no legal conclusions or blanket encryption assurances adopted. The September 9 Terraform Enterprise recovery case is accepted for independent recovery configuration and evidence boundaries. Customer-specific timing, test scope and sample commands are explicitly qualified; source repositories and deployed experiments were not validated.

Evidence

Ten local arithmetic assertions passed. Independent human review and live lab validation remain pending. The operational receipt records fetch evidence, hashed detailed objectives, section mapping, limitations and repository/site gates. Accepted snapshots were preserved.