Passed on my first try: 834/1000. Passing score is 700.
AWS’s CCP certification exam is slightly more challenging than Microsoft’s Azure Fundamentals Certification, even though both are considered entry level certifications targeted at… everyone (not just IT folks). It is aimed at sales reps, management leaders, finance auditors, etc. Some IT folks actually skip this cert as it’s not a pre-requisite for later, more technical certs but I still recommend it to get an idea of the look & feel and “culture” of the AWS certification questions and process. See what I mean below.
My biggest takeaway having passed the test now, is that you need to read carefully both the questions and each of the multiple choice answers in AWS’s exam as there could be a modifier or condition that renders the default answer incorrect:
- An easy example would be including a negative operator like “Which of the following is not correct?” If you read too quickly or didn’t pay attention to the not, you might have picked the default correct association that comes to mind. AWS is tricky in the way they word the answers as well as the questions, so the multiple choice answers may at first seem like 1 correct answer with 3 incorrect answers, which in this case you’re actually looking for the one incorrect answer… anyways I know we’re all good with this one since… school exams.
- A more complex example would be “What two resources or tools could a company use to predict their cloud spend, if they’re considering moving to cloud?” If you stopped paying attention after “predict cloud spend”, you would’ve picked an answer like Cost and Usage Report or Cost Explorer, which does in fact predict cloud spend, however it is based on previous usage. The condition specified that they’re considering moving to cloud, means there’s no previous usage to base predictions off of, so the correct answers would be the pricing calculator and an AWS sales rep. Tricky right?
In terms of studying I watched a 4 hour Youtube video by FreeCodeCamp.org and purchased a practice exam on tutorialsdojo. Links below.