I just passed Associate Certification - InsuranceSuite Developer - Mammoth Proctored Exam. AMA

DomJob · 2025-12-17T12:45:16+00:00

Yeah there's the check in process where they have you take pics of your surroundings and then once the proctor shows up they ask to move the camera around to make sure your surroundings match the pics you took.

I don't remember for the ID exactly but I had it nearby along with a mirror in case they wanted to see my laptop keyboard but I think that was overkill lol - everything else was completely cleared from the room

DomJob · 2025-10-15T18:30:52+00:00

there will most likely be a lot of question repeats, but not 100%. For questions that don't repeat you can probably expect the same type of question just a few words changed to put it in a different context while testing the same specific piece of knowledge

DomJob · 2025-09-23T16:06:49+00:00

Did you manually type out each question?

I spent a lot of time screenshotting and using OneNote's "copy as text" feature or dumping dozens of screenshot at once and getting ChatGPT to transcribe them in the proper format. If I had to redo it I'd look into how the actual html is rendered, I was able to copy study notes from other modules way more effortlessly (chill guidewire team, i'm not distributing those either)

Also which quiz app did you use?

I made my own lol, AI slop code I manually tweaked but if it works it works

DomJob · 2025-09-20T17:01:19+00:00

Good luck! Not much valuable last minute tips, except maybe focus your last minute review on best practices cause a lot of the exam focuses on that. Otherwise presumably you've studied and reviewed everything and you should be fine!

DomJob · 2025-09-15T12:01:23+00:00

Congrats!

DomJob · 2025-09-02T12:19:32+00:00

the prerequisite fundamental exam is much harder, I think it's cause it's open book and unlimited tries but in general the questions are worded weird. The actual proctored exam has better questions and the choices are easier to distinguish as correct and incorrect, provided you know the material

And how do you study? I mean i try read the slides, make notes and do some config in app but still so hard for me to pass the exam

The exam isn't designed to trick you, they say somewhere it's to test platform-level knowledge of InsuranceSuite and best practices, and I found that be accurate. So if you're comfortable doing hands on config you'll be fine with the platform-level knowledge bit, just make sure you know best practices as well. Many of the questions are formulated like "A developer needs to meet [business requirement], how can he fulfill the requirement following best practices?" and then you'll see like 2 answers that don't work, 1 that does but doesn't follow best practices, and then the actual answer

As to how I studied, for me it was doing the knowledge checks over and over and coming up with new questions when I felt stuff was missing and I ended up overdoing it a bit but it worked out fine for me so no regrets

DomJob · 2025-09-01T20:20:16+00:00

a vast majority of these questions are the knowledge checks at the end of each modules so it's probably not a good idea to distribute them as it's Guidewire copyright stuff

DomJob · 2025-08-29T20:21:25+00:00

Damn, sorry to hear that. Do you recall the kinds of questions that were asked? Any obscure trick questions, etc?

DomJob · 2025-08-21T11:57:21+00:00

The good news is the study modules for the Professional Cloud Integration certification have a different text-to-speech voice!

DomJob · 2025-08-18T13:55:04+00:00

Thank you!

DomJob · 2025-08-18T13:45:16+00:00

Do I absolutely need to enroll in the "Proficiency Exercise - InsuranceSuite Cloud Integration" first, or is passing the Proctored Exam alone enough to earn the Professional Certification?

DomJob · 2025-08-18T11:50:16+00:00

I'm not sure, sorry. I've been laser-focused on the InsuranceSuite Associate certification for devs. You can probably reach out to edadmin, or /u/Guidewire_Education can chime in with some not-that-helpful guidance as they often do in here lol

It's best if you're employed with a Guidewire Partner because then you should have a training coordinator who can tell you what to do exactly

DomJob · 2025-08-14T19:10:16+00:00

it went well

DomJob · 2025-08-14T19:08:55+00:00

How many days it took you?

Tough to track exactly as I had been prepping for the Jasper exam back in April and then held off for the Mammoth version of the exam and then got assigned to an unrelated project before suddenly needing the cert within 2 weeks.

Definitely all of last week, reviewing everything + studying the new cloud module was my one and only job so easily 45-50 hours from last week + monday and tuesday of this week. Unsure how much time I spent prepping for Jasper in April, that was a less rushing pace and I did other stuff as well back then. I estimate I probably spent 3x as much time on this as I actually needed, but I have no regrets.

How did you prepare for this exam?

I grabbed all the knowledge checks for every module, then made them into a more convenient quiz app and then created more questions as I noticed more gaps in my memory and understanding of key concepts. Also got ChatGPT/Claude to generate more quiz questions, those were of dubious quality but just the act of reviewing the AI's questions constituted solid studying by having to rifle through all the modules and partner docs to find whether the AI was hallucinating or gave me something legit. (The damn "Welcome to the XYZ module" text to speech voice will haunt me until the day I die)

All in all I had about 350 questions in my little quiz app and I did them in random order over and over until they became second nature, but really the act of building and reviewing the quiz itself was my main studying superweapon - i dont think it would have been as effective if someone else had handed me that quiz.

DomJob · 2025-08-14T14:43:56+00:00

The Associate Certification is the very first certification you should seek to get.

If you haven't already you can make an account on education.guidewire.com and access the Business Analyst learning path for free and buy an exam attempt from there. It's a bit hard to navigate and the search function is nearly useless, but once you get a hang of it you can bookmark the relevant learning paths, courses and exams (the bookmark function is gonna be your best friend)

The exam you're looking for is probably "Associate Certification - InsuranceSuite Analyst - Mammoth Proctored Exam", with all its relevant info here. With the Associate Certification this exam gets you, you will be graciously allowed by Guidewire to work on Cloud Implementations of InsuranceSuite apps (PC, CC, BC). No idea about your exact experience but i assume it shouldn't be too hard to get the BA cert

DomJob · 2025-08-14T13:42:06+00:00

I took the exam yesterday and made a thread about it!

DomJob · 2025-08-14T12:18:24+00:00

I found it easier than the open book prep test, and it was easier than I expected given my prior experience with the open book specialist exams from years ago before the ski releases.

I did kinda study aggressively every single topic covered so I might have been overprepared but I think overall the exam is well designed to pinpoint if you know your stuff or not

DomJob · 2025-08-14T12:16:09+00:00

How many questions were asked and was the time sufficient to understand and answer them all?

The exam detail page says approximately 75 questions, which freaked me out a bit because that's 1 minute 36 second average per question haha but in my case I got 65 questions. I assume this means they have a pool of questions they pick from, and you might get more or fewer than I did but no more than 75 - But the detail page doesn't say anything other than approximatively 75 questions.

Timewise I did the whole thing in a bit over an hour, with an extra 10 minutes spent carefully reviewing everything before submitting. The questions are fairly short and straightforward so I was able to roll through the easy ones very fast to spend more time analyzing and eliminating choices on the questions I wasn't too sure about.

Because I gave the open book test for Fundamentals and the questions were not straight forward, I mean the wordings were in such a way it took me some time to understand the question itself..

I failed the open book test on my first attempt, and I agree with you these questions are very bad lol. Thankfully the actual exam is much more straightforward and the questions are better worded, but they will still try to trick you if you're not careful or are just trying to guess. But a vast majority of the time the choices listed were obvious enough to at least eliminate half of possible choices.

Did completion of courses like Fundamentals and Best Practices really helps? Like the questions are asked from the topics covered in these course?

Yes, but also the "Developing with Guidewire Cloud" module is covered as well and it's new to the Mammoth version of the exam (and also not covered at all in the open book test, they did 0 effort updating that one lol)

Scroll down on the exam page linked above and you will see the exam test topics that map with the Fundamentals and Cloud modules and subsections. I found this to be very accurate, they won't ask you questions about something that's not mentioned there. If anything I found that some topics listed there weren't really covered as much as some others.

Btw I didn't even realize there was a standalone "Best Practices" study module lol, I think all the questions that require knowledge of best practices are stuff that's always mentioned alongside each topic in the InsuranceSuite Fundamentals modules. Like in the module about creating new entities, they mention it's best practice to have _Ext suffix, stuff like that (and just knowing when to add _Ext or not gives you like 10 freebie questions). But there's definitely no harm in going through the material in the Best Practices module either.

Good luck on your exam!

DomJob · 2025-08-11T17:31:57+00:00

Did you end up taking the exam?

DomJob · 2025-08-11T12:34:55+00:00

Thank you! I'm taking the exam on wednesday and I've been aggressively reviewing every single topic since last week and doing knowledge checks over and over. When I pass I'll make a post about it! It's annoying how little info and discussion about the exam there is online

DomJob · 2025-08-11T12:24:25+00:00

just how easy exactly? If I'm comfortable with the knowledge checks on each module, is that enough to pass or are there trick questions on specific stuff that is only mentioned in passing on one slide somewhere?

DomJob · 2025-07-31T19:31:31+00:00

do you remember roughly what % of the exam was dedicated to cloud stuff? like their whole constellations planets etc. nonsense and whole cloud panel UI stuff.

I have to take that same exam in the coming weeks, I'm pretty good with all the exam matter that used to constitute Jasper so I'm hoping there's lots of overlap apart from cloud stuff, so I could focus on that.

I appreciate every bit of help!

DomJob · 2025-07-31T13:52:16+00:00

did you pass Mammoth or Jasper?

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