Certification cheat sheets
Every key fact for your exam on one page, grouped by the official domains — free, no account needed. Pick a certification to open its sheet.
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
The cloud fundamentals every role needs — your first AWS certification.
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
Understand AI, GenAI, and foundation models on AWS — and pass AIF-C01.
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Write, deploy, and debug cloud-native apps the way AWS expects — and pass DVA-C02.
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Detect, respond, and lock down AWS workloads at scale — and pass SCS-C03.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Design resilient, secure, and cost-effective AWS architectures — the industry’s most sought-after cloud certification.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Administer identity, storage, compute, and networking on Azure — and pass AZ-104.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Learn cloud concepts and core Azure services from zero — and pass AZ-900.
AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate
Monitor, operate, and automate production AWS environments — the operations certification (formerly SysOps Administrator).
AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate
Build, operate, and secure data pipelines on AWS — and pass DEA-C01.
Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
Deploy, operate, and secure workloads on Google Cloud — and pass Associate Cloud Engineer.
Google Cloud Generative AI Leader
Lead generative AI adoption on Google Cloud — and pass the Generative AI Leader exam.
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (004)
Master Terraform's workflow, configuration, modules, and state — and pass Terraform Associate 004.
ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
Start your cybersecurity career — and pass the ISC2 CC exam (2026 outline).
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)
Learn Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem — and pass the KCNA exam.
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate
Build, secure, and optimize analytics solutions in Microsoft Fabric — and pass DP-700.
What a cheat sheet is for
A cheat sheet is for the last day, not the first. Once you have read the material and drilled the questions, what you need is not more explanation but a single page that lets you sweep the whole syllabus in twenty minutes and find the two or three things that have not stuck. Each sheet here is built from the key fact of every lesson for that certification, grouped by the official exam domain and in the guide’s own order — so a gap on the sheet is a gap in the exam guide, and you can see exactly which domain it sits in. Nothing here is written separately from the lessons: the sheets are composed from them, so they update whenever the lessons do and can never quietly drift out of step.
| Certification | Vendor | Domains | Lessons distilled |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) | AWS | 4 | 19 |
| AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) | AWS | 5 | 14 |
| AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C02) | AWS | 4 | 13 |
| AWS Certified Security – Specialty (SCS-C03) | AWS | 6 | 16 |
| AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) | AWS | 4 | 14 |
| Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) | Microsoft Azure | 5 | 15 |
| Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) | Microsoft Azure | 3 | 11 |
| AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate (SOA-C03) | AWS | 5 | 13 |
| AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (DEA-C01) | AWS | 4 | 17 |
| Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) | Google Cloud | 4 | 12 |
| Google Cloud Generative AI Leader (GenAI Leader) | Google Cloud | 4 | 15 |
| HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (004) | HashiCorp | 8 | 10 |
| ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) | ISC2 | 5 | 19 |
| Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) | CNCF | 4 | 13 |
| Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700) | Microsoft Azure | 3 | 10 |
How to actually use a cheat sheet
Used well, it is the highest-value hour of revision you will do. Used as a shortcut, it is close to worthless.
Do not start here
A cheat sheet compresses material you have already met. If a line on it is the first time you have encountered a service, the sheet cannot teach you what it means — the revision notes can. Read the lessons first, then come back and use the sheet to check what stuck.
Sweep it domain by domain, and mark the gaps
Work through one domain at a time and mark every line you could not have produced from memory. The marks cluster, and the clusters are your revision plan for the remaining days. A domain with a heavy exam weighting and heavy marking is where all your remaining time should go.
Turn each gap back into practice, not re-reading
Re-reading a fact you just failed to recall feels productive and mostly is not. Take the gap back to the practice questions for that domain instead: answering under pressure is what moves a fact from recognised to retrievable, which is the difference the exam actually tests.
Use it the morning of, then stop
A final sweep on exam day is worth doing — it warms up recall and settles nerves. Learning new material in the last hours is not: it displaces what you already know and raises anxiety. Read the sheet, close it, and go and sit the exam.