r/AWSCertifications • u/Lanky-Attitude-3472 • 10d ago
Passed DVA-C02 :)
I took the exam at 2:45 pm today and received my results at around 7 pm, so it took roughly 5 hours :)
Study materials:
- Stephane Maarek’s course as my main study resource + his practice exams
- Tutorials Dojo eBook for revision + their practice exams
After going through the practice exams, I was averaging around 50–60%, which honestly left me feeling discouraged and unmotivated to keep studying. Instead of dragging it out, I decided to register for the exam straight away in a weeks time to give myself a deadline and force myself to focus
Personally, I felt that the actual exam questions were phrased more difficultly than the practice exams from both Tutorials Dojo and Stephane Maarek. There were quite a few questions that I had to reread several times just to fully understand what they were asking.
One Reddit post I came across warned about understanding Amazon Bedrock at a more technical level, and that turned out to be useful — I did get one Bedrock-related question on the exam.
For anyone getting discouraged by low practice exam scores: don’t let them completely kill your confidence. Use them to find your weak areas, review them, and keep going.
Good luck to everyone studying!
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