AWS Certification Subject Matter Expert (SME) Item Writing

This course teaches you the standards and guidelines for developing items for AWS Certification exams. It outlines the overall exam development process; defines your role in the process; identifies valid item types and their components; identifies and defines item-writing standards, guidelines, and best practices; and provides guidance for validating and defending exam items. This course also provides an overview of using AWS Certification’s item authoring and banking tool.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• AWS Technical Subject Matter Experts
• AWS Certification Exam Development Facilitators

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Author psychometrically sound, legally defensible exam items
• Identify cognitive levels and understand their relevance to exam objectives
• Author items that align to the appropriate exam level and cognitive level
• Author items that align to the appropriate job role
• Validate the technical accuracy of exam items

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• A current, valid AWS certification
• A minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience designing solutions, developing and deploying applications, and running or managing workloads on the AWS Cloud

Delivery Method

This course is delivered through:

• Digital training

Duration

2.5 hours

Course Outline

This course covers the following concepts:

• Certification Fundamentals
• Standard Certification Considerations
• Job Roles, Exam-Level Complexity, and Cognition
• Item Writing Standards and Guidelines
• Exam Studio Overview