Hey Cloud Gurus,
ready to test your new AWS skills and take a certification exam? Great.
Let me show you how to book an exam and how to know if you've passed,
and check your score. Alright,
now I'm going to go ahead and show you how to book an AWS certification.
We're going to head to aws.amazon.com/certifications.
And we're going to hit schedule an exam.
Keep in mind that in order to schedule an exam,
you actually need to sign in with an Amazon account and not an AWS account.
Right, we're going to hit sign in and we're going to select Amazon.
And we're going to hit sign in here
and hit sign in there. Fantastic.
Now this should take us to our AWS certification account,
and I'm going to click on, go to your account.
Let's hit on schedule new exam.
Let's find the exam that we're looking for.
And I'm going to select the AWS Certified Developer Associate.
And I'm going to select schedule with Pearson Vue.
First off, it's going to ask us, how do you want to take your exam?
I'm going to select online from my home or office.
We also have the option to take the exam at a local test center
or use a private access code.
This is typically provided to you by an exam sponsor,
and this is sometimes needed to schedule an exam, but this isn't the case here.
So we're just going to select online from my home or office.
Now you do see here a, sort of a note,
which tells us that your machine needs to meet minimum requirements.
So I would highly suggest clicking on that link,
because it's going to take you to a testing program that's going to make
sure that your machine is going to work to take this exam. Alrighty,
so now I'm going to hit next. Alright,
so we have now the online exam policies that we have to agree to by checking
each one of these boxes. Now, for the purpose of this video,
to keep it brief, I'm not going to review everything,
but please make sure to take the time to actually do that.
Now we're going to select our preferred language for the exam.
I'm going to select English. Fantastic.
Now we have the exam details.
We're going to make sure this is the correct exam that we want to take.
Looks like the price is 150 USD. The language we selected is English, right.
And we see, we have a notice here that says,
if you are taking an online Proctor exam in an available country,
we strongly recommend using a personal computer and a wired ether net
connection. Now take some time to read this over.
Alrighty. Now we're going to hit next. Now,
what is the language you prefer the Proctor to speak? English is my option.
I'm going to hit next.
Now we're going to actually select a day to take this
exam. I'm going to select in March.
I want to take it on Monday the 15th.
I'm going to select the 12-hour format so it can show me which times are
available. 1:00 PM is perfect.
Just verify that the description of the exam,
the language and the details are correct for you.
And now we can go ahead and proceed to checkout.
You will now be presented with AWS policies that go over the system
requirements, admission policy, reschedule policy, and cancellation policy.
So just make sure to take a look at that before you hit accept.
Now we can fill in our billing information. Alrighty, once you're ready,
hit next.
And this is one final time to check in all the details, your description,
your details, the price, the exams for your name,
make sure your AWS ID is correct, the order total.
And then you're going to see subtotal, tax, total due,
and just the last four of the card that you're using to pay for this.
And then you can hit submit order. And you're done.
One last thing I do want to show you is back in the AWS certification dashboard,
which would be your AWS certification account,
this is where we initially scheduled our exam,
but we also have options to view our previous exams, upcoming exams,
achieved certifications.
If you've taken any AWS certifications in here you'll see them listed - started,
active, last day to re-certify,
and then you can download your certificate in here,
and then you have digital badges and access to anything AWS
certification-related from this portal. Great.
We've booked an exam and we know we have the option to book an online exam or an
in-person exam.
We took a few minutes to go over the prerequisites your machine must meet.
We also know we can expect a pass or fail result within a few minutes of
finishing our exam and a more detailed report in our AWS certification
dashboard. Are you taking an AWS certification soon?
Let us know in the comments and make sure to subscribe for more awesome cloud
content. That's it for this episode of ACG Fundamentals.
Keep being awesome Cloud Gurus. I'll see you in the next one.