AWS Certification Exam: Time Management Strategy

Nikola Kucerova
8 min readJun 17, 2024

Your heart is pounding as you approach the exam room, palms sweating. Memories of late nights spent hunched over textbooks and notes flood your mind, but you can’t help but second-guess if you prepared enough. You take a deep breath, trying to calm the butterflies your stomach. All that hard work has to pay off. It’s time to show what you know.

This is how I felt before most exams at school. These intense emotions likely resonate from your own student days, when the outcome of an exam could make or break your chances at your dream college. Once you’ve completed your formal education, those anxious moments resurface only in an occasional bad dream. However, if you decide to pursue an AWS certification, you may find yourself revisiting that familiar territory of pre-exam jitters.

AWS certification exams can be quite challenging, especially for people who are not used to taking exams. Dozens of questions that need to be answered in a very limited amount of time, which creates a high pressure environment. Having to sit in a chair and look at the screen for 2–3 hours with no breaks also makes the exam physically exhausting. This is why knowing how to approach exam taking and having the right strategy in place is extremely important.

I have passed multiple AWS exams over the years and I have learned a few tips here…

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