How does the Skills Assessment work?
The Skills Assessment is an evolving assessment that helps establish a baseline for your knowledge and any skill gaps. At the beginning of the Skills Assessment, you choose your skill level along with your specialities. The Skills Assessment then begins assessing your knowledge in comparison to the baseline skill level and speciality you chose. The questions become more or less difficult, depending on whether you answered them correctly or incorrectly. Your Skills Assessment will generate once we have sufficient data.
Can I pause the Skills Assessment?
- We want to simulate as much of an exam experience as possible.
- We want to gather the most accurate data.
Make sure to set aside enough time to take the Skills Assessment without interruption.
What if I don’t complete the assessment in the allotted time?
If you’ve reached the time limit, a screen will appear indicating that the assessment has run out of time. But not to worry. The questions you have answered will still help us in determining your skill set.
Why isn’t there feedback for my Skills Assessment progress?
The number of questions you get varies depending on your answers. The Skills Assessment is constantly changing as you take the assessment so we aren't able to determine ahead of time how many questions you’ll end up answering.
Can I see if my questions were right or wrong?
This Skills Assessment is used to identify the courses you should start with. What you missed will be covered in the courses recommended to you. Once in a course, you can also take practice exams to identify your knowledge gaps.
Can I retake the Skills Assessment?
While the Skills Assessment can only be taken once, our practice exams can be taken as many times as you want. (Though we don’t recommend taking a practice exam more than a couple hundred times).
Can I access my results later?
If you intend to share or keep the results, we recommend printing or taking a screenshot of them, since they can't be accessed later. We are working on adding this functionality.
Are the results tied to my A Cloud Guru account?
The Skills Assessment results do not currently tie to your A Cloud Guru account.
Is the Skills Assessment just for AWS skills?
No, the Skills Assessment supports both AWS and Azure.
What does each “Level” relate to?
The following table outlines the broad characteristics of each student level. These levels are used in the design and production of our course curriculums and learning paths to ensure content is taught at an appropriate level.
Level: | Students at this level: |
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Apprentice |
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Practitioner |
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Professional |
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Guru |
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I’ve got my results, now what?
The following table shows suggested starting points based on your assessed skill level:
Discipline | Learning path | Assessed Level | Starting point |
Architecture | AWS Architect | Novice | AWS Certification Preparation Guide |
AWS Architect | Apprentice | Rethinking Architecture in the Age of Truly Commoditized Compute | James Simmons | |
AWS Architect | Practitioner | #109 - Your Very Own API | |
AWS Architect | Professional | Kubernetes Deep Dive | |
AWS Architect | Guru | - | |
Data | AWS Data | Novice | AWS Certification Preparation Guide |
AWS Data | Apprentice | AWS Certified Developer - Associate | |
AWS Data | Practitioner | Building Resilient Serverless Systems with "Non-Serverless" Components | Jeremy Daly | |
AWS Data | Professional | AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional | |
AWS Data | Guru | - | |
Developer | AWS Developer | Novice | AWS Certification Preparation Guide |
AWS Developer | Apprentice | Introduction to Git | |
AWS Developer | Practitioner | AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate | |
AWS Developer | Professional | S3 Masterclass | |
AWS Developer | Guru | - | |
DevOps | AWS DevOps | Novice | AWS Certification Preparation Guide |
AWS DevOps | Apprentice | Mastering the AWS Well-Architected Framework | |
AWS DevOps | Practitioner | AWS Certified Security - Specialty | |
AWS DevOps | Professional | Kubernetes Deep Dive | |
AWS DevOps | Guru | - | |
Security | AWS Security | Novice | Introduction to CLI |
AWS Security | Apprentice | Introduction to AWS CloudFormation | |
AWS Security | Practitioner | #109 AWS Systems Manager Session Manager | |
AWS Security | Professional | AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional | |
AWS Security | Guru | - |
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