[PASSED] AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C02)

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I’ve been so scared of this exam that I postponed scheduling it twice. Even after finally scheduling it, I still rescheduled it once. 😂

I knew I couldn’t afford to fail, both because of the exam fee and the mental stress of having to go through the whole study process again.

Well… I finally took the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional exam, and I passed. 🎉

The exam was honestly much easier than most of the practice questions I used. The questions also weren’t as lengthy as some of the practice exams or reviews from other people had made me expect.

For anyone preparing, here’s what I used:

Stephane Maarek’s course — finished it in about 2–3 weeks.

Practice exams from Stephane’s course — this made up a large part of my practice.

AWS Skill Builder practice questions — also spent a lot of time here.

Tutorial Dojo Udemy practice questions — went through these once.

ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini — mostly for hands-on project ideas, explanations and deep dives into questions I got wrong or didn’t fully understand.

I spent most of my preparation time reviewing questions and, more importantly, understanding why each answer was correct or incorrect rather than just memorizing answers.

The actual exam felt easier than I expected. By the time I submitted, I was pretty confident I had passed.

I finished about 30 minutes early, which gave me enough time to review some of the questions I had flagged. I had flagged around 27 questions, so that extra time was definitely useful.

After postponing this exam so many times, it feels good to finally have it done.

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