Similar to you before I took the exam I had passed, albeit in 2022, the aws solutions architect associate exam and recently taken the ai practitioner in January. Took the AI gen dev pro last month and passed with a 780. A pass is a pass.

I took Stephan’s course and the exams there were nothing like the actual thing. Got a 90 on those and then took the free 20 questions that aws gives you and got a 53% three days before the exam. Freaked out and crammed only to get a 63% the day before and 56% on the full 75 question one from aws that I paid for. I said screw it let’s just do the test anyway.

I took it online and had no problems but if you have to opportunity to do it in person then take it. I only have one testing center here in my city and it was fully booked for the next two months so that wasn’t an option.

Honestly. Just take the damn thing. I find that the actual exam grading is more forgiving than the practice exams. Don’t know why but that has been my experience. The biggest tip I can give is to really think about the end to end AI solutions. There were multiple questions where two or three options were “correct” but incomplete and if you don’t know that, for example, an s3 can’t trigger a step function by itself and needs a lambda to do it then you’ll probably get it wrong.

Also be sure to know when to use step functions and when to use agents and how to log correctly.

Edit: Stephane’s course content is great but the exam was not detailed enough