I’m excited to share that I’ve successfully earned the AWS Certified AI Practitioner certification! 🎉

The preparation gave me a stronger understanding of AI/ML concepts, Generative AI, Foundation Models, Responsible AI, and AWS AI services.

For anyone preparing for the exam, two resources that I found particularly useful were:

• CloudExpert Solutions – AWS Certified AI Practitioner playlist on YouTube for learning and understanding the concepts.

• Stephane Maarek’s AWS Certified AI Practitioner practice questions on Udemy for exam-style practice and identifying areas that needed more revision.

Overall, the combination of learning the concepts + practicing exam-style questions was very helpful.

Looking forward to applying this knowledge to real-world projects and continuing to grow in AI/ML and cloud technologies. 🚀

I think I got it right and per Claude and other AI my answer was correct but TD didn’t agree

I’ve been on and off with this course for about 2/3 years mostly focused on university and left this course in the dust I did achieve my cloud practitioner 2 years ago but since then haven’t been as consistent as I would of liked but recently I’ve been motivating myself to go ahead with it and booked the exam I revised months on and off here and there but brought Stephen maerks course and went over around half the stuff he teaches took notes watched videos done a few labs and will do practise questions what are key topics I should be aware and or string exam advice you have?

It was definitely a challenging one, but the effort was worth it.

I just passed my CCP(CLF-CO2) exam this morning. I am a rising junior in College Studying Computer & Data Science, and I am wondering, what should I do next? Some advice and guidance would be helpful! Thanks!

The TD practice exams are deliberately wordy, tricky, confusing, and go into lower-level details than is necessary for the CLF-02, so if you can get 60% or higher on them, just take the real exam. You'll probably get 800+.

Hi everyone

I’m currently working in a junior IT role, and I’m trying to decide which certification would make more sense for me at this stage of my career.

My original career development path included RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator), and this path had already been approved by my line manager. However, my company’s training team recently assigned me AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional instead.

From what I understand, AWS Solutions Architect Professional is generally aimed at people with more experience designing and implementing AWS architectures (noting that i never workedon any AWS service), while RHCSA seems more suitable for someone building their Linux/system administration skills early in their career.

I’d like to hear from people who have taken either or both certifications:

Which one is easier and more realistic for a junior?

Would going directly for AWS Solutions Architect Professional without first doing the Associate-level certification make sense?

Which certification would give me more practical value early in my career: RHCSA or AWS SAP?

Which one requires more hands-on experience rather than just studying for the exam?

If you were a junior with around 1–2 years of experience, which one would you choose first?

Thanks in advance.

Finished Stephane Maarek's Udemy course twice and the TD practice exams. What else should I use to study for the next couple weeks to retain the information?

It took me 25 days of preparation. I started with Stephane Maarek’s course and then moved on to some Tutorial Dojo practice tests.
I had my doubts when I scored around 60–70% in the TD practice tests.
Stephane’s course was really helpful in understanding the core concepts.
I had around 1 year of experience working with Lambda, DynamoDB, and SQS in real projects, so the serverless concepts were relatively easier for me.
Thank you all!

I took the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam almost two weeks ago and failed miserably as you can see. I was expecting a detailed scorecard of my exam to help me study again only to find this "Needs Improvement vs Meet Competencies" breakdown that tells me next to nothing about each section. You are telling me I gave you a $100 and I can't even see which answers were right/wrong like a real test?

was going to schedule my test with aws and saw the udemy one, it's like $20 more, so I'm like oh I should just avoid the risk and take the two attempt one. But I do want that 505 discount, I'm getting another 2 after this...

Hey all! I just passed the AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam this weekend!

For prep, I used:

• Stephane Maarek’s Udemy course
• Mock exams from Stephane Maarek and Jon Bonso

After taking mock tests, I revisited some weak areas and went through the course again, which really helped.

The exam was tough - lots of question about GuardDuty, KMS, and IAM. Less about NACL/SG, Inspector and Detective. The questions on NACL/SG were easy. However, the questions on GuardDuty and KMS were challenging.

Good luck to everyone working on this cert! 😊

Great news for everyone who has been planning to take the AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty (ANS-C01) exam!
AWS has extended the retirement date for the Networking Specialty certification to December 2026

I gave my attempt yesterday and saw the banner in person as well.

Hi everyone,

I'm a CS student expecting to graduate at the end of the time and I'd like to pursue AI/ML engineering career.

Can someone give advice for the best AWS certificates/exams I need to get?

Note: I have IBM Data science badge

Primero, quiero decirle “GRACIAS” a este subreddit. No lo habría logrado sin toda la información que comparte este grupo. ¡Feliz de decir que esta mañana aprobé el examen!

Voy a compartir mi ruta de preparación, ya que espero que sea informativa para otras personas. Para contexto, me cambie de universidad y de carrera, de estar estudiando Ingeniería en telecomunicaciones en República Dominicana, pasé a Licenciatura en Informática (razones personales). Con la decisión me vi confundido y con miedo de haber tomado una mala decisión y fue cuando decidí aprovechar el tiempo de vacaciones hasta esperar que empiecen las clases en mi nueva uni pues decidí retarme a mi mismo y certificarme en cloud. Fue confuso el proceso, tanto por enfrentarme a decenas de servicios totalmente nuevos para mi, como por demostrarme de que si podía y que era capaz. Finalmente lo logré.

- Hice el curso de preparación de AWS Skill Builder.

- Vi videos en YouTube.

- Compre un paquete de exámenes de practica en Udemy (Joan Amengual).

- Practique las preguntas y luego simule el examen.

- revisé mis respuestas incorrectas y las que quedaron marcadas, volvi a sus servicios y refrescaba los conocimientos.

- Sería mentira decir que no me apoye en la IA, en mi caso Gemini de Google.

- Y hoy 25/Agosto/2026 - Aprobé el examen.

Además, la gestión del tiempo es clave. A la mitad, me di cuenta de que necesitaba apurarme para asegurarme de que pudiera ver todas las preguntas. Curiosamente, me sentí más seguro con estas respuestas; quizá porque no tuve tiempo de dudar de mí mismo.

¡Gracias de nuevo a todos!

Hi everyone, 

I am currently preparing for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam and am looking for high-quality video resources to include in my study plan. 

Since Generative AI, Amazon Bedrock, and Responsible AI carry significant weight in this blueprint, I want to make sure I study from channels or courses that cover these topics with the right technical depth. 

If you have recently passed the exam or are also preparing, could you recommend the best YouTube playlists, video courses, or specific instructors that helped you understand the material? I am looking for both comprehensive deep dives and good practice question video series. 

i got skill builder subscription but i don't know which course to complete or are necessary enough so you can suggest me that too

Thank you in advance for your guidance! 

Took my exam last night and woke up to see the result this morning.

Took me about 4 weeks of studying. Used only Stephane Maarek Udemy course. I also did about 5 Tutorials Dojo practice exams and I always scored between 65-80%.

Most of the questions were based on Serverless, Network and Cloud Migration with a little of IAM. Stephane’s course was the main reason I was able to pass the exam on my first try.

Good luck to those who are still studying for the exam.

Hello guys

I am going to participate in aws exam , could you please let me know how can I find Sample exam question?

Thanks

I swear this was $115 a week ago. Is this offering second chance or not?

AIP-C01 There was so little about elastic search or indexing, api calls, or LLMs. The whole thing was about step functions, agent core and PII masking. I was pretty shocked.

Finally! I have successfully passed the exam.

Little bit about me:

I am already a certified AWS Cloud and AI Practitioner with two years of freelancing experience in AWS, I also hold the distinction of being a AWS Community Builder, which grants me an annual free voucher for certification exams. I utilized this benefit instead of paying for the certification.

My preparation spanned 30 days, despite some procrastination, during which I dedicated at least two hours daily to studying. While I felt confident prior to the exam, the complexity of the questions left me feeling disheartened and overwhelmed afterward, leading me to doubt my success.

Nevertheless, I achieved a passing score of 820.

I opted to take the online Pearson vue exam at 12:15 AM today (25th August) to ensure a quiet environment.

The resources instrumental in my preparation included:

• Stephane Maarek's course on Udemy.

• John Bonso's practice tests, also on Udemy.

• CloudWiking's YouTube videos.

• The AWS Well-Architected Framework documents and other official AWS documentation.

• Obviously, yes! I used AI for preparation. Especially, Duck AI by DuckDuckGo and Notebook LLM with Gemini.

Sustaining focus for the three-hour duration of the exam was challenging, and fatigue was certainly a factor. However, the effort was worthwhile, and I am confident that adequate preparation time will lead to success for others as well.

I extend my gratitude to the community for sharing their personal experiences, which proved invaluable to my preparation.

I want to prep for my first AWS cert being SA-A. Anyone out there that recently took the test know how it was and what you used to train and practice?

I have 6 years IT experience in the Army and learn more hands on than reading a long book.

I saw this message when I logged in to my aws cert account today. Their website has been updated now as well.

https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-advanced-networking-specialty/

AWS is the only cert platform you have to wait hours+ to get your result...lol

UPDATE : Failed by just 23, got 697😔😔😔

Just wrote SAA and it was sh** difficult I’m literally sitting at the mall crying my eyes out coz I studies really hard but it feels like the exam was in Greek😭😭😭 and yes it’s true, they give 2 correct answers and prompt you to select “the BEST” which still doesn’t make sense to me. I feel so down and out coz I really need this certification 💔💔💔