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What's new on CloudNinja: new practice exams, fixed questions and improvements, newest first.

CloudNinja Projects: your first real AWS project, the white belt

A new hands-on ladder. The white belt takes you from no AWS account to a live portfolio site: a safe account with MFA and a budget alarm, a page generated with Amazon Bedrock, hosted on S3 behind CloudFront. With a belt exam, interview questions and a badge.

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Free Tier and Support plan details brought up to date

AWS changed the Free Tier for new accounts to sign-up credits and a six-month Free plan, and renamed its Support plans. The Cloud Practitioner study material on the site now describes both correctly.

Cloud Practitioner guide →

Streaks, sharing and recent questions

The Question of the Day now counts your streak, lets you share the question with friends, and has a page with recent questions and their explanations. You can also report a question that looks wrong.

Recent questions →

A new Question of the Day every day of the year

The Question of the Day now has 365 questions, so you get a different one every day for a full year. They stay at Cloud Practitioner level and rotate through compute, storage, databases, networking, security, billing, cloud concepts, AI and analytics, and management tools. Each one comes with an explanation.

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Report a problem from any page

Spotted a broken link, a typo or something out of date? Use "Report a problem" at the bottom of any page, or in the More menu. No email needed.

Up-to-date answer counts when you come back

If you already answered the Question of the Day and come back later, the number of people who answered is now fetched fresh instead of showing the count from when you answered.

Explanations on the Question of the Day

After you answer the Question of the Day you now see why the right answer is right, a link to the AWS documentation, and a quick way into the full Cloud Practitioner practice exam.

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Honest numbers on the Question of the Day

The Question of the Day now shows only real answers from visitors. Earlier vote counts included made-up starting numbers; those are gone, and the answer split appears once a question has 20 answers.

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Review dates on every certification guide

Each certification guide now shows when it was last checked against the official AWS exam guide, so you know the domains and weights are current.

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Sample questions on every practice exam page

Each of the 13 practice exam pages now shows 3 sample questions in the style of AWS's official samples, with answers and explanations, plus FAQs about how the practice exam works.

See the SAA-C03 samples →

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ANS-C01 retirement guide

AWS is retiring Advanced Networking – Specialty on December 31, 2026. What that means for your certification and whether to sit the exam now.

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Fairer practice exams on all 13 certifications

The correct answer was too often in the same position and too often the longest option. Every question bank was rebalanced so neither shortcut works any more. Thanks to two reader reports.

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22 questions corrected

Reader reports and our own review found outdated or ambiguous questions in seven exams. Each was checked against current AWS documentation, including the 2026 support plans and services AWS has retired.

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Multi-answer questions: tapping the checkbox works again

Tapping the checkbox itself used to undo the selection; only tapping the answer text worked. Thanks to three reader reports.

Report a question in one click

The Report Issue button on every question now opens a short form right on the page, and every report goes straight to our fix list.

Privacy policy rewritten

A plain-language privacy policy that matches exactly what the site does. Addresses used for results emails are no longer kept.

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Faster pages on mobile

Pages now load and become usable noticeably faster on phones.

DVA-C02 vs DVA-C03 guide

What changes in the AWS Developer Associate exam on December 1, 2026, and whether to sit DVA-C02 first.

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SAP-C02 vs SAP-C03 guide

What changes in the Solutions Architect Professional exam and how to decide which version to take.

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Easier-to-read cheat sheets

Each cheat sheet now opens with the key exam facts, domain weights and service groups at a glance.

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New: AI Business Strategist (AIB-C01) practice exam

A free practice exam, certification guide and cheat sheet for the new AWS AI Business Strategist beta.

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