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It's been close to a decade since I last sat an exam; that is until two days ago, when I took the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification.
On a very personal level, it seem my test anxiety from university days has only been dormant due to the lacks of formal test situations in my life. Even though the stakes were orders of magnitude lower I found it made me remarkably nervous just to think of being in a test situation again. Probably deeply learned behavior...
The official exam guide lists 115 services as explicitly in scope, so for a knowledge based exam there is quite a bit of ground to cover (and trivia to memorize). The questions I got in the end did turned out easier than those in the material with sample tests that I used for preparation. Anyway, although I'm glad that I did it, I'm even more glad to re-enroll to the school of life now ;).