AWS exam countdown & daily study target
Enter your exam date and see exactly how many days you have left — plus a suggested pace of lessons per week and practice questions per day to stay on track, with the final week kept for full-length mocks. Free, no account needed.
Pick your exam date above to start the countdown.
Turning a countdown into a plan
An exam countdown is only useful if it changes what you do today. Enter your exam date above and the planner turns the days remaining into a simple pace — how many lessons to cover each week and how many practice questions to do each day — with the final week reserved for full-length mocks. The maths is deliberately transparent: your certification’s published lessons spread evenly across the weeks you have. A pace keeps you on track; whether you are ready is decided by consistently passing timed mock exams, and nothing else.
| Certification | Exam questions | Time limit | Free lessons here |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) | 65 | 90 min | 19 |
| AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C02) | 65 | 130 min | 13 |
| AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) | 65 | 130 min | 14 |
| AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate (SOA-C03) | 65 | 130 min | 13 |
How to use the days you have left
The countdown itself is the easy part. What separates people who arrive ready from people who arrive hopeful is how the remaining days are spent — and the same four rules apply whether you have two weeks or twelve.
Count backwards from the exam, not forwards from today
Fix the exam date first and divide what is left: the early weeks for learning, the final week (or two, on longer run-ins) purely for mock exams and weak areas. Booking the exam is the single best motivator — a real date on the calendar turns "some day" studying into a schedule.
Turn weeks into a weekly lesson target
Divide the syllabus by the learning weeks you have and hold yourself to that number, covering the heaviest exam domain first — that is where the marks are. Falling one week behind on a six-week plan is recoverable; discovering it in the final week is not.
Practise a little every day
A modest daily batch of practice questions beats a weekend blitz, because questions expose the gap between "I read it" and "I can answer it under time pressure" while there is still time to fix it. Read the explanation for every option — right and wrong.
Reserve the final week for full-length mocks
Nothing predicts readiness like sitting a complete, timed paper. Use the last week for at least one full mock, review every miss, and re-drill the domains where you lost marks. Aim to clear the pass mark with room to spare before exam day — and if the mocks say you are not there, moving the exam is cheaper than retaking it.