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It was mostly painful. Herein follows a compression algorithm for experience.
1. The AWS training ecosystem is a hot mess of different websites and flaky SSO protocols. Be prepared to login several times. Your amazon.com account is used, not your AWS account, for … reasons. Your entry point is https://aws.training/. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
2. You can schedule “At Home Alone” AWS certifications via PearsonVue. (Entry point listed above). This requires waving away any privacy you had left and installing their super-pervasive “Online Proctoring” software. Nothing to see here.
3. If you take the $90 cloud practitioner exam, and then pass said exam, you get a 50% voucher for the $300 exams. Bonus. Every time you pass an exam you get another 50% bonus. Just like Fortnite.
4. I failed an exam because I was in the remote boondoggles and tethered to LTE. My connection dropped. I couldn’t reconnect to the exam because I had neglected to make a note of the magic “Exam Access Code”. The exam timed out. I failed.
5. Once, the super-pervasive online Eye of Foucault proctoring system kicked in and a voice spoke at me, like the disembodied voice of the Almighty. “Thou shalt not vape!” came the commandment. Oh, ok then…