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Congrats on passing! Thanks a lot for the feedback, yes the exams are definitely a moving target and it’s worth noting that they do include a few questions that you are not actually scored on, I think they do it to test questions out and see how they are received. I think this is sometimes the case when they throw in a curveball type question about something really new that seems out of whack with everything else….but that is just my theory!
I spotted this on the new Certification blog:
To keep our exams current, we continue the process of writing and reviewing items. To evaluate these newly created items, we place them on the live exam but don’t use them to judge candidate competency. If they statistically perform well, they may be used in the future to replace items in the same content area. On the AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam, for example, a subset of the 65 items on the exam are being tested and don’t count in the candidate’s score. However, the candidates are not told which items are unscored.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/training-and-certification/the-experts-behind-aws-certification-exams/