Preparation

Started preparing for the certification on the 2nd week of January and took the exam on 1st February. Went through a ~14 hour long udemy course, alongside with the 6 additional practice exam. Result: 820 (82%)

Thoughts

Udemy Course review

The Udemy course by Stephane Maarek covered a wide variety of AWS services and contain quite a large amount of details. The content of the course goes beyond the certification and it serves as a very good introduction to AWS services. On the same note, a good portion of the content/details are not necessarily useful for the exam.

Certification review

As a foundational certification, I feel that the difficulty of the exam is quite well-managed. While there are a large number of services to understand, there are no concepts that are particularly difficult to understand. The difficulty of the exams lies more in the sheer amount of content (Services), rather than the depth of it.

Exam Format

The exam contains 2 types of questions, multiple choice and multiple response. An interesting aspect of the exam is that although the exam includes 65 questions. Only 50 questions will affect the score. As per the exam guide, the allocation between each section is shown in the table below

Cloud Concepts

Security and Compliance

Technology

Billing and Pricing

Resources:

Official AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Page AWS Exam guide Udemy course by Stephane Maarek Additional practice exam by Stephane Maarek