The pre-test of the software is identical to the steps you must undertake in the 15 minutes before your allocated start time for the exam. Aside for some technical specifications of running the software, here’s what you’ll need: Before booking the exam they encourage you to download and pre-test the software to ensure it will work on your system, and that you’re able to comply with the various requirements of sitting the exam remotely. Now the fun begins! Pearson Vue deliver the exam through a piece of software called OnVUE. In my case, I logged on at 10am in the morning and the first spot available to me was 8.45pm that same evening – so I booked it! Set-up Whilst the exam purports to be available 24×7, this is still constrained by the availability of online proctors, who invigilate (monitor you) during the exam.
On the Select Exam Delivery Option page, choose the option “At my home or office.” Online proctoring is not available in China, Japan, and South Korea. To register, select the “Schedule New Exam” button, and select “Schedule with Pearson VUE” next to the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. After some poking around you discover that is is only the Pearson Vue provider who offer this remote exam and NOT PSI.
The first thing to note is that the announcement doesn’t immediately make it clear how to begin the process, and on logging into my Certification Account wasn’t much help. For this reason I hadn’t bothered to trek to an exam centre to sit it, but this new release gave me the chance to lazily knock it off the list in the ongoing quest to “catch ’em all”. This certification is comparatively recent, having been released in December 2017, and would be redundant to anyone who had already sat an Associate-level certification or above. AWS announced on the 28th August 2019 that the entry-level certification – AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner – was now available to be taken remotely from the comfort of your home or office.