Exam Review & Tips

Exam Review & Tips

State of learning checkpoint

• Let look how far we’ve gone on our learning

  Practice makes perfect

• If you’re new to AWS, take a bit of AWS practice thanks to this course before rushing to the exam
• The exam recommends you to have one or more years of hands-on experiencee on AWS
• Practice makes perfect!
• If you feel overwhelmed by the amount of knowledge you just learned, just go through it one more time

  Proceed by elimination

• Most question are going to be scenario based
• For all the questions, rule out answers that you know for sure are wrong
• For the remaining answers, understand which one makes the most sense
• There are very few trick question
• Don’t over-think it
• If a solution seems feasible but highly complicated, it’s probably wrong

  Skim the AWS Whitepapers

• You can read about some AWS White Pappers here:
  • Architecting for the Cloud: AWS Best Practicces
  • AWS Well-architected Framework
  • AWS Disaster Recovery
• Overall we’ve explored all the most important concepts in the course
• It’s never bad to have a look at the whitepappers you think are interesting!

  Read each service’s FAQ

  FAQ = Frequently asked questions Example: FAQ cover a lot of the questions asked at the exam They help confirm your understannding of a service

  Get into the AWS Community

• Help out ad discuss with other people in the course Q&A
• Review questions asked by other people in the Q&A• Review questions asked by other people in the Q&A
• Do the practice test in this section
• Read forums online
• Read online blogs
• Attend local meetups and discuss with other AWS engineers
• Watch re-invent videos on Youtube (AWS Conference)

  How will the exam work?

• You’ll have to register online at
• fee for the exam is 150 USD
• Provide two identity documents (ID, Credit Card, details are in emails sent to you)
• No notes are allowed, no pen is allowed, no speaking
• 65 question will be asked in 130 minutes
• At the end you can optionally review all the question / answers
• You will know right away if you passed / failed the exams
• You will not know which answers were right / wrong
• You will know the overall score a few days later (email nottification)
• To pass you need score of a least 720 out of 1000
• If you fail, you can rettakke the exam again 14 days later