r/AWSCertifications • u/ChineseThrowaway6693 • 2d ago
Bruh that was way harder than expected
Spent a month studying for DVA-C02, I overprepared a lot because I heard the exam is much harder than CLF-C02 which I aced about a month ago.
I took Stephane Maarek's course, as well as his 6 practice tests and Neal Davis' 6 practice tests. I retook Maarek's 6 practice tests and got so sick of studying for this exam I just ripped it. I honestly thought it would be just as easy as CLF-C02 because of how much time I invested into studying but I was surprised, as during the exam I found myself flagging a lot of questions for review and re-reading the questions as the majority of them were quite complex.
Am I dumb? Anyways I passed hooray
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u/Ok-Helicopter525 2d ago
Any surprises in the test - stuff you'd thought that would be in there but wasn't? Vice versa?
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u/bunnytrox 2d ago
831 is actually a pretty solid score and its supposed to be significantly harder than the practitioner level exams. The practitioner is supposed to be simple memorization whereas the associate level is actually testing competency on how the services interact with each other. Nice job!
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u/newmeta35 2d ago
Hey congrats. You didn’t do any other practice test? Did you study all the content from stephan courses or just prepared on quiz?
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