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AWS Professional and Specialty Exams

A plan past associate level on AWS: choosing Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional or a specialty, long scenario practice, multi-account labs, timed mocks and exam day.

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Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for AWS Professional and Specialty Exams, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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AWS Professional and Specialty Exams

Going beyond associate level on AWS: Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional or a specialty such as security, with long scenario practice.

  1. Choosing your first professional or specialty AWS exam
  2. Exam guide and AWS certification policy folder
  3. Diagnostic scenario set and baseline score
  4. Domain map of the exam guide against your experience
  5. Dated study calendar to a target exam month
  6. Multi-account practice sandbox with AWS Organizations
  7. Lab spend ceiling and weekly teardown
  8. Employer sponsorship and study time request
  9. Weekly long-scenario question block
  10. Wrong-answer log with distractor patterns
  11. Service quotas and limits flashcard deck
  12. Weekly lab built from a practice scenario
  13. Monthly full-length timed mock
  14. Whitepaper and Well-Architected reading queue
  15. Study partner scenario review
  16. Service change watch against the exam guide
  17. Monthly score review and plan reset
  18. Multi-account strategy and governance patterns
  19. Hybrid and multi-VPC networking at professional depth
  20. Migration and modernisation patterns
  21. Disaster recovery designs by recovery objectives
  22. Cost optimisation decisions at organisation scale
  23. Delivery pipelines and deployment strategies
  24. Infrastructure as code and configuration at fleet scale
  25. Observability and automated incident response
  26. IAM policy evaluation and KMS key policies
  27. Practice question bank and course comparison
  28. Reading method for long scenario questions
  29. Pacing plan and flagging rules for the exam
  30. Online proctored or test centre decision
  31. Readiness gate before booking the exam
  32. Exam accommodation and extra time request
  33. Booking the exam slot and checking your ID
  34. Final fourteen days before a professional exam
  35. Exam day check-in and logistics
  36. After the result, badge, profile and next-exam benefit
  37. Retake plan after a failed attempt
  38. Second professional exam while the material is fresh
  39. Studying for a professional exam around on-call weeks
  40. Working parent study plan in short blocks
  41. Partner consultant certification target
  42. Moving to AWS professional exams from Azure or Google Cloud
  43. Long scenarios in your second language
  44. Team lead running an exam cohort
  45. Advanced Networking Specialty preparation
  46. Security Specialty with detection and response labs
  47. Machine learning and AI exam route decision
  48. Professional credential recertification path
  49. Reference architectures written up from your study labs
  50. Contributing to AWS exam development as a subject matter expert

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Choosing your first professional or specialty AWS exam

Solutions Architect Professional rewards broad design judgement across many services, DevOps Engineer Professional rewards depth in pipelines, automation and operations, and the specialties go narrow and deep. Picking the one that matches the work you do now, and the role you want next, means your daily job becomes study time instead of competing with it.

First tasks

  • Open the AWS certification page and list every current professional and specialty exam
  • Note any exam marked for retirement or replacement and its last sitting date
  • Score two candidate exams against your current work and next role
  • Write your choice and target quarter in one dated note

Exam guide and AWS certification policy folder

Every AWS exam is written from its published exam guide, which lists the domains, the task statements and the in-scope and out-of-scope services. Keeping the current guide, the sample questions and the policy pages on retakes, rescheduling and recertification in one dated folder means every study decision is checked against the source.

First tasks

  • Download the current exam guide and official sample questions for your exam
  • Copy the domain names and weightings from the guide onto one page
  • Record the fee, retake wait and rescheduling rules from the AWS policy pages
  • Check AWS for a revised exam guide or exam code for your exam @recurring(quarterly)

Diagnostic scenario set and baseline score

A cold attempt at a block of professional-style questions before any study shows two things: your domain weak spots and how long you take per question. Both numbers drive the study calendar, and seeing a modest baseline early is far better than discovering your pace problem in the final week.

First tasks

  • Set aside a quiet ninety minutes with no notes or console open
  • Answer a diagnostic block of professional-level questions on a timer
  • Record the score per domain and the average minutes per question
  • Name the two weakest domains at the top of the log

Make it yours.

Install AWS Professional and Specialty Exams, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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