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Pass-IT blog: study for IT certifications
Find study guides, exam explanations, worked exercises and updates on retiring IT certifications.
Databricks ML: Associate or Professional?
Choose your ML study scope using a worked release decision: better validation results, a broken response contract and operational checks.
SnowPro Core COF-C03: a practical study plan
Build your COF-C03 study plan around small lab tasks, query evidence, and explanations of the decisions you make.
AZ-800 and AZ-801 retirement: planning for AZ-802
Understand the Windows Server exam transition, decide what to do with an existing pass, and map your study material to AZ-802.
PL-900 July 2026 update: what to study now
Review the current PL-900 objectives and connect apps, flows, Dataverse and agents in a worked leave-request example.
CompTIA certification path 2026: choose your next skill
Compare A+, Network+, Security+, CySA+, SecurityX and SecAI+ by the work you want to do, then choose a practical learning project.
CompTIA CySA+ vs Security+: foundations or investigation?
Choose between Security+ foundations and CySA+ investigation with a login-triage exercise, current exam codes, and precise language transition dates.
CompTIA Network+ vs Security+: choose by your skill gaps
Compare Network+ connectivity skills with Security+ controls and risk through a DNS troubleshooting exercise and practical guidance for choosing.
CompTIA Data+ DA0-002: Define Revenue Before SQL
Work through duplicate orders, cancelled sales and a changed data grain to learn how to define and validate a revenue metric.
SC-200: understanding security operations through practice
Explore SC-200 with a runnable KQL exercise, an incident assessment and a three-session plan that produces work you can inspect.
AZ-204 has retired: what to do with your credential and study work
Understand the AZ-204 retirement, check your existing credential, and use your study work to choose a current Azure learning path.
Databricks Data Engineer: Associate or Professional?
Compare foundational data engineering with production operations, then use a worked merge exercise to choose your study scope.
Snowflake ARA-C01 exam format and architecture
Understand the ARA-C01 format, required certification and architectural reasoning through an original data-sharing exercise.
Databricks Spark: reason through DataFrame tasks
Practice Spark DataFrame reasoning with a worked example: define event identity, remove replays, check counts, and handle conflicting records.
PL-200, PL-500 and PL-600 have retired: choosing a path
Review the retired Power Platform exams, compare current paths by work, and use a small approval-app exercise to identify what you need to learn.
Google Cloud security: PSOE vs PCSE
Compare PCSE and PSOE through their responsibilities and an original logging exercise to choose the skills you want to develop.
AI-200 study guide: build and test an AI backend
Use a small Python backend project to connect AI-200 topics: containers, vector data, integration, security, monitoring and troubleshooting.
CompTIA Linux+ XK0-006: Diagnose a Failed Service
Use service status and logs to investigate a configuration failure, choose a minimal fix and verify that the application actually works.
CompTIA SecAI+ CY0-001: what it tests and how to practice
Understand SecAI+ coverage, exam format and recommended experience, then work through an AI security exercise using an internal HR assistant.
Is Google’s Generative AI Leader right for your work?
Decide whether the credential fits your work, understand the exam, and prepare with a concrete AI pilot evaluation exercise.
AZ-500 has retired: assessing SC-500 for your next step
Compare SC-500’s scope with your security work, then trace an assistant’s identities, storage access and expected logs in a diagram exercise.
HashiCorp Consul: retired exam, practical study
The Consul Associate exam has retired. Explore registration, health checks and access through an isolated lab with explicit expected results.
How to prepare for AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01)
Prepare for AIF-C01 with a document-based exercise, an evidence-led review plan, exam facts and the latest German-language booking notice.
Spaced repetition: build a review schedule you can adjust
Build a flexible review schedule with a worked permissions example. Use recall, explanations, and a study log to decide what to revisit.
AZ-104 exam format: what to expect and how to rehearse
Understand Microsoft’s timing guidance, breaks and Learn access, then rehearse the interface and a practical pacing exercise for AZ-104.
AI-900 has retired: what to study for AI-901
Review AI-901’s objective weights and technical expectations, then test a fictional library assistant for accurate and unsupported answers.
Is there an AI-104? Compare AZ-104, AI-103 and AI-200
Clarify the AI-104 search and choose between Azure administration, AI apps and agents, and AI backend development using official paths.
AI-102 has retired: preparing for AI-103
Understand AI-102’s retirement, review AI-103’s scope, and test a fictional policy assistant for grounded answers and access boundaries.
Consul Associate has retired: skills to keep learning
Understand the Consul Associate retirement and existing badge validity, then test the difference between service registration and health.
GCP-ACE study guide: reason through a deployment
Study GCP-ACE with a worked container deployment, persistence checks, access tests, and a repeatable method for reviewing your decisions.
How to prepare for AZ-104 with practical exercises
Structure your AZ-104 preparation around Azure tasks, clear self-checks and a mistake log, using Microsoft’s objectives effective April 17, 2026.
CompTIA SecurityX vs Security+: which fits your work?
Compare Security+ foundations with SecurityX architecture and engineering through a contractor-access exercise, exam facts, and practical next steps.
CLF-C02: take Cloud Practitioner or start with SAA-C03?
Decide whether AWS Cloud Practitioner fits your goal or whether to study the foundations and start with Solutions Architect Associate.
What to do after failing a certification exam
Check retake rules, turn your result into a focused study plan, and decide when another attempt makes sense.
How to study for AWS SAA-C03
Build a repeatable SAA-C03 study method: turn requirements into design choices, test your reasoning, and learn from a shared-storage exercise.
How to study for Azure Fundamentals AZ-900
Study AZ-900 through a worked Azure Policy scenario. Explain concepts, separate permissions from governance, and test changed requirements.
Choosing AI practice, question banks and dumps
Learn how to assess exam preparation material by its source, explanations and fit to current objectives, with a practical backup exercise.
How to use your readiness score and understand the pass guarantee
Turn practice feedback into useful review decisions, understand the scoring thresholds, and check which refund conditions apply.
What adaptive exam preparation means
Understand how practice results can guide your next session, what small samples cannot tell you and how to check understanding beyond repeat answers.
Your first cloud certification: AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
Choose your first cloud certification by platform, target task, exam language and budget, with a worked example comparing foundational options.
Cloud certification roadmap 2026: build around a task
Map AWS, Azure and Google Cloud certifications to cloud literacy, architecture and operations, then turn one practical task into a learning sequence.
Five AWS certification mistakes to fix for SAA-C03
Prepare for AWS Solutions Architect Associate by checking constraints, reasoning through alternatives, covering objectives, and practising exam navigation.
What practice exam scores can and cannot tell you
Learn how to interpret repeated-question scores, check your reasoning, and use a permissions exercise and error log to choose what to review.
Azure vs AWS certifications: which to choose in 2026?
Compare AWS and Azure certifications by platform, work tasks, practice access, and renewal terms, with a practical example to guide your choice.
How to decide whether to book your certification exam
Use objectives, changed scenarios and timed practice to decide what to review next and whether you have enough evidence to book your exam.
Why I built Pass-IT around questions and explanations
How my AZ-900 preparation shaped Pass-IT: short practice sessions, explanations, AI follow-up questions, and scores that help you decide what to review.