AWS Certification roadmap and free practice exams

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

The broad first exam: what the cloud is for, who secures what, the core services, and how AWS charges for them. No coding and no architecture design.

65 questions · 90 min · pass 700/1000

Study path and 96 practice questions →

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

The foundational AI exam: machine learning and generative AI concepts, where each AWS AI service fits, and how to use them responsibly.

65 questions · 90 min · pass 700/1000

Best after: Cloud Practitioner

Study path and 135 practice questions →

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

The hub of the roadmap: designing secure, resilient, high-performing and cost-optimized systems on AWS, and choosing between services for a scenario.

65 questions · 130 min · pass 720/1000

Best after: Cloud Practitioner

Study path and 135 practice questions →

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

For people who write code against AWS: building with AWS services and SDKs, securing application code and data, deploying through pipelines, and debugging.

65 questions · 130 min · pass 720/1000

Best after: Solutions Architect - Associate

DVA-C03 replaces this exam; registration opens October 27, 2026, and its exam guide is not out yet. This package follows the DVA-C02 guide (version 2.1) and moves to DVA-C03 when that guide is published.

Study path and 130 practice questions →

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate

For people who run workloads on AWS: monitoring and remediation, reliability and recovery, automated deployment, security controls and networking.

65 questions · 130 min · pass 720/1000

Best after: Solutions Architect - Associate

This certification was called SysOps Administrator - Associate until SOA-C03.

Study path and 65 practice questions →

AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate

For people who build data pipelines: ingesting and transforming data, choosing and modeling data stores, operating pipelines, and governing data.

65 questions · 130 min · pass 720/1000

Best after: Solutions Architect - Associate

Exam guide version 1.1 (December 12, 2025) added open table formats, vector indexes, LLMs in data processing and Amazon SageMaker Catalog.

Study path and 150 practice questions →

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate

For people who put ML into production: preparing data, training and tuning models, deploying and orchestrating them, and keeping them monitored and secure.

65 questions · 130 min · pass 720/1000

Best after: Solutions Architect - Associate or AI Practitioner

MLA-C02 has been in beta since September 29, 2026, in English only (booked as ME1-C02): 85 questions, 170 minutes, $75. The standard format above is the exam guide's 50 scored and 15 unscored questions; its time and fee are today's associate values, which AWS has not yet confirmed for MLA-C02 because general availability has not been announced. MLA-C01 ended in English on September 28, 2026 and stays available in Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese until MLA-C02 is generally available.

Study path and 125 practice questions →

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

Architecture at organization scale: multi-account designs, new solutions, improving what already runs, and migrating and modernizing workloads.

75 questions · 180 min · pass 750/1000

Best after: Solutions Architect - Associate

SAP-C03 replaces this exam: registration opens on October 27, 2026, and SAP-C02 can be taken until November 16, 2026. Our questions follow the SAP-C02 guide until the SAP-C03 guide is published; the update is included in the package.

Study path and 175 practice questions →

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Delivery and operations at depth: automated pipelines, infrastructure as code, resilient systems, monitoring, incident response and compliance.

75 questions · 180 min · pass 750/1000

Best after: Developer - Associate or CloudOps Engineer - Associate

Study path and 170 practice questions →

AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional

Building production generative AI: integrating foundation models, retrieval and agents, safety and governance, cost and performance, and testing.

75 questions · 180 min · pass 750/1000

Best after: Machine Learning Engineer - Associate or Developer - Associate

Study path and 175 practice questions →

AWS Certified Security - Specialty

Security in depth: detection, incident response, infrastructure security, identity and access, data protection, and governance across accounts.

65 questions · 170 min · pass 750/1000

Best after: Solutions Architect - Associate or CloudOps Engineer - Associate

Study path and 145 practice questions →

AWS Certified AI Business Strategist

For product, sales and business roles: turning AI into business outcomes, governing it responsibly and leading adoption. No coding.

85 questions (beta) · 170 min · pass 700/1000

Best after: Cloud Practitioner or AI Practitioner

AIB-C01 is in beta: 85 multiple-choice and multiple-response questions in 170 minutes for $50, at a Pearson testing center or online. The exam guide sets the standard exam at 130 minutes with a scaled passing score of 700, and the certification page gives the standard price as $100; AWS has not published the standard exam's question count yet. The official practice exam is not available during the beta.

Study path and 130 practice questions →

AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty

Hybrid and AWS network architecture at scale: design, implementation, operations, and network security and governance.

65 questions · 170 min · pass 750/1000

Best after: Solutions Architect - Associate

Retiring with no replacement announced, so we are not building a package for it.

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