Prepare for Your AWS Certification Exam
Find exam guides, sample questions, and other exam preparation resources.
Before taking an AWS Certification exam, we recommend you have hands-on experience with relevant AWS products and services. We offer the following resources to supplement your experience and help you prepare for AWS Certification. Browse each collection—featuring exam guides, links to exam scheduling, and more—and get started today!
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Foundational-level AWS Certification
Cloud Practitioner
Learn cloud fundamentals and best practices
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Download exam guide and sample questions
Review the exam guide, which contains the content outline and target audience for the certification exam. Perform a self-assessment to identify your knowledge or skills gaps.
Download the exam guide
Also, review the sample questions, which demonstrate the format of the questions used on the exam.
Download the sample questions
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Explore AWS learning paths
Build your technical skills with a specially designed learning path.
Explore the Cloud Practitioner learning path
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Read AWS whitepapers and FAQs
Broaden your technical understanding with whitepapers written by the AWS team, independent analysts, and AWS partners.
STUDY TIP: Focus on the following whitepapers.
Overview of Amazon Web Services || Architecting for the Cloud: AWS Best Practices || How AWS Pricing Works || Compare AWS Support Plans
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Take a practice exam
Test your knowledge online in a timed environment.
Register at aws.training
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Associate-level AWS Certifications
Solutions Architect - Associate
Learn to design highly available systems
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Download exam guide and sample questions
Review the exam guide, which contains the content outline and target audience for the certification exam. Perform a self-assessment to identify your knowledge or skills gaps.
Also, review the sample questions, which demonstrate the format of the questions used on the exam.
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Explore AWS learning paths
Build your technical skills with a specially designed learning path.
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Read AWS whitepapers and FAQs
Broaden your technical understanding with whitepapers written by the AWS team, independent analysts, and AWS partners.
Study tip: Focus on the following whitepapers
AWS Well-Architected webpage (various whitepapers linked)
Browse our list to familiarize yourself with commonly raised questions and issues.
Study tip: Focus on the following FAQs
Amazon EC2 || Amazon S3 || Amazon VPC || Amazon Route 53 || Amazon RDS || Amazon SQS
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Take Exam Readiness training
Prepare for your AWS Certification exam with Exam Readiness training by AWS. We’ll teach you how to interpret exam questions and allocate your study time. Our training is developed by us, so content is current with the latest best practices. Our Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate course is offered in classroom or free digital training formats. The course reviews sample exam questions in each topic area and teaches you how to interpret the concepts being tested so that you can more easily eliminate incorrect responses.
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Take a practice exam
Test your knowledge online in a timed environment.
Register at aws.training
Developer - Associate
Learn to develop applications for the cloud
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Download exam guide
Review the exam guide, which contains the content outline and target audience for the certification exam. Perform a self-assessment to identify your knowledge or skills gaps.
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Explore AWS learning paths
Build your technical skills with a specially designed learning path.
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Read AWS whitepapers and FAQs
Broaden your technical understanding with whitepapers written by the AWS team, independent analysts, and AWS partners.
STUDY TIP: Focus on the following whitepapers.
AWS Security Best Practices || AWS Well-Architected Framework || Architecting for the Cloud: AWS Best Practices || Practicing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery on AWS Accelerating Software Delivery with DevOps || Microservices on AWS || Serverless Architectures with AWS Lambda || Optimizing Enterprise Economics with Serverless Architectures || Running Containerized Microservices on AWS || Blue/Green Deployments on AWS
Browse our list to familiarize yourself with commonly raised questions and issues.
STUDY TIP: Focus on the following FAQs.
Amazon Simple Queue Service || Amazon DynamoDB || Amazon ElastiCache || Amazon Kinesis || AWS Lambda || Amazon API Gateway || AWS Elastic Beanstalk || AWS Identity and Access Management || AWS Key Management Service
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Take Exam Readiness training
Prepare for your AWS Certification exam with Exam Readiness training by AWS. We’ll teach you how to interpret exam questions and allocate your study time. Our training is developed by us, so content is current with the latest best practices. Our Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Developer - Associate course is offered in classroom or free digital training formats. The course reviews sample exam questions in each topic area and teaches you how to interpret the concepts being tested so that you can more easily eliminate incorrect responses.
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Take a practice exam
Test your knowledge online in a timed environment.
Register at aws.training
SysOps Administrator - Associate
Learn to automate applications, networks, and systems
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Get exam guide and sample questions
Review the exam guide, which contains the content outline and target audience for the certification exam. Perform a self-assessment to identify your knowledge or skills gaps.
Download the exam guide
Also, review the sample questions, which demonstrate the format of the questions used on the exam.
Download the sample questions
Finally, review the official exam study guide for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam. Written by AWS experts, this book prepares you to demonstrate your networking skills in an examination setting, covering exam objectives while guiding you through hands-on exercises based on situations you'll likely encounter as an AWS Certified SysOps Administrator. From deployment, management, and operations to migration, data flow, cost control, and beyond, this guide will help you internalize the processes and best practices associated with AWS.
Buy the official exam study guide
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Explore AWS learning paths
Build your technical skills with a specially designed learning path.
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Read AWS whitepapers and FAQs
Broaden your technical understanding with whitepapers written by the AWS team, independent analysts, and AWS partners.
Study Tip: Focus on the following whitepapers
Architecting for the Cloud: AWS Best Practices || AWS Security Best Practices || Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes || AWS Well-Architected Framework || Development and Test on AWS || Backup and Recovery Approaches Using AWS || Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Connectivity Options || How AWS Pricing Works
Browse our list to familiarize yourself with commonly raised questions and issues.
Study Tip: Focus on the following FAQs
Amazon EC2 || Amazon S3 || Amazon VPC || Amazon Route 53 || Amazon RDS || Amazon SQS
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Take Exam Readiness training
Prepare for your AWS Certification exam with Exam Readiness training by AWS. We’ll teach you how to interpret exam questions and allocate your study time. Our training is developed by us, so content is current with the latest best practices. Our Exam Readiness: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate course is offered in classroom or free digital training formats. The course reviews sample exam questions in each topic area and teaches you how to interpret the concepts being tested so that you can more easily eliminate incorrect responses.
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Take a practice exam
Test your knowledge online in a timed environment.
Register at aws.training
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Professional-level AWS Certifications
Solutions Architect - Professional
Build complex solutions with data services, governance, and security
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Download exam guide and sample questions
Review the exam guide, which contains the content outline and target audience for the certification exam. Perform a self-assessment to identify your knowledge or skills gaps.
Also, review the sample questions, which demonstrate the format of the questions used on the exam.
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Explore AWS learning paths
Build your technical skills with a specially designed learning path.
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Read AWS whitepapers and FAQs
Broaden your technical understanding with whitepapers written by the AWS team, independent analysts, and AWS partners.
STUDY TIP: Focus on the following whitepapers
Securing Data at Rest with Encryption || Web Application Hosting in the AWS Cloud || Migrating AWS Resources to a New Region
Browse our list to familiarize yourself with commonly raised questions and issues.
STUDY TIP: Focus on the following FAQs
Auto Scaling || Elastic Load Balancing || AWS Elastic Beanstalk
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Take Exam Readiness training
Prepare for your AWS Certification exam with Exam Readiness training by AWS. Our Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional course, available via both classroom and free digital training, teaches you how to interpret exam questions, apply concepts being tested by the exam, and allocate your study time. The course reviews sample exam questions on each topic area and explains how to interpret the concepts being tested to help you more easily eliminate incorrect responses. Our training is built by the experts at AWS, so content is current with the latest best practices.
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Take a practice exam
Test your knowledge online in a timed environment.
DevOps Engineer - Professional
Use DevOps practices to develop and maintain AWS applications
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Download exam guide and sample questions
Review the exam guide, which contains the content outline and target audience for the certification exam. Perform a self-assessment to identify your knowledge or skills gaps.
Download the exam guide
Also, review the sample questions, which demonstrate the format of the questions used on the exam. -
Explore AWS learning paths
Build your technical skills with specially designed learning paths.
Explore the Developer learning path
Explore the Operations learning path
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Read AWS whitepapers and FAQs
Broaden your technical understanding with whitepapers written by the AWS team, independent analysts, and AWS partners.
STUDY TIP: Focus on the following whitepapers
Running Containerized Microservices on AWS || Microservices on AWS || Infrastructure as Code
Browse our list to familiarize yourself with commonly raised questions and issues.
STUDY TIP: Focus on the following FAQs
Auto Scaling || Elastic Load Balancing || AWS Elastic Beanstalk
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Take Exam Readiness training
Prepare for your AWS Certification exam with Exam Readiness training by AWS. Our Exam Readiness: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional course, available via both classroom and free digital training, teaches you how to interpret exam questions, apply concepts being tested by the exam, and allocate your study time. The course reviews sample exam questions on each topic area and explains how to interpret the concepts being tested to help you more easily eliminate incorrect responses. Our training is built by the experts at AWS, so content is current with the latest best practices.
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Take a practice exam
Test your knowledge online in a timed environment.
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Specialty AWS Certifications
Advanced Networking - Specialty
Design and implement AWS architectures
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Get exam guides and sample questions
Review the exam guide, which contains the content outline and target audience for the certification exam. Perform a self-assessment to identify your knowledge or skills gaps.
Download the exam guide
Also, review the sample questions, which demonstrate the format of the questions used on the exam.Download the sample questions
Finally, review the official exam study guide for the AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty exam. Written by AWS experts, this book prepares you to demonstrate your networking skills in an examination setting, covering exam objectives while guiding you through hands-on exercises based on situations you'll likely encounter once you’re AWS Certified in advanced networking.
Buy the official exam study guide
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Explore AWS learning paths
Build your technical skills with a specially designed learning path.
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Take Exam Readiness training
Prepare for your AWS Certification exam with Exam Readiness training by AWS. We’ll teach you how to interpret exam questions and allocate your study time. Our training is developed by us, so content is current with the latest best practices. Our Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty course is offered in classroom or free digital training formats. The course reviews sample exam questions in each topic area, and covers advanced networking concepts to help you prepare for the exam.
Big Data - Specialty
Design and implement AWS services to derive value from data
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Download exam guide and sample questions
Review the exam guide, which contains the content outline and target audience for the certification exam. Perform a self-assessment to identify your knowledge or skills gaps.
Also, review the sample questions, which demonstrate the format of the questions used on the exam.
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Explore AWS learning paths
Build your technical skills with a specially designed learning path.
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Take Exam Readiness training
Prepare for your AWS Certification exam with Exam Readiness training by AWS. Our Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Big Data - Specialty course, available via both classroom and free digital training, teaches you how to interpret exam questions, apply concepts being tested by the exam, and allocate your study time. The course reviews sample exam questions on each topic area and explains how to interpret the concepts being tested to help you more easily eliminate incorrect responses. Our training is built by the experts at AWS, so content is current with the latest best practices.
Security - Specialty
Learn processes and best practices for securing the AWS platform
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Download exam guide and sample questions
Review the exam guide, which contains the content outline and target audience for the certification exam. Perform a self-assessment to identify your knowledge or skills gaps.
Also, review the sample questions, which demonstrate the format of the questions used on the exam.
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Explore AWS learning paths
Build your technical skills with a specially designed learning path.
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Take Exam Readiness training
Prepare for your AWS Certification exam with Exam Readiness training by AWS. Our Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Security - Specialty course, available via both classroom and free digital training, teaches you how to interpret exam questions, apply concepts being tested by the exam, and allocate your study time. The course reviews sample exam questions on each topic area and explains how to interpret the concepts being tested to help you more easily eliminate incorrect responses. Our training is built by the experts at AWS, so content is current with the latest best practices.
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Take a practice exam
Test your knowledge online in a timed environment.
Machine Learning - Specialty
Build and tune machine learning models on AWS
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Download exam guide and sample questions
Review the exam guide, which contains the content outline and target audience for the certification exam. Perform a self-assessment to identify your knowledge or skills gaps.
Also, review the sample questions, which demonstrate the format of the questions used on the exam.
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Explore AWS learning paths
Build your technical skills with specially designed learning paths.
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Take a practice exam
Test your knowledge online in a timed environment.
Register at aws.training
Alexa Skill Builder - Specialty
Develop skills for Alexa devices
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Download exam guide and sample questions
Review the exam guide, which contains the content outline and target audience for the certification exam. Perform a self-assessment to identify your knowledge or skills gaps.
Also, review the sample questions, which demonstrate the format of the questions used on the exam.
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Take Exam Readiness training
Prepare for your AWS Certification exam with Exam Readiness training by AWS. Our Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder - Specialty course, available via both classroom and free digital training, teaches you how to interpret exam questions, apply concepts being tested by the exam, and allocate your study time. The course reviews sample exam questions on each topic area and explains how to interpret the concepts being tested to help you more easily eliminate incorrect responses. Our training is built by the experts at AWS, so content is current with the latest best practices.
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Take a practice exam
Test your knowledge online in a timed environment.
Register at aws.training
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