Exam

Exam Technique

• shared exam room, kiosk, or at home
• 130 minutes
• 65 questions (2mins/question)
• 720/1000 pass mark
• domain weights
• design resilient architecture : 30%
• design high-performing architecture : 28%
• design secure applications and architectures : 24%
• design cost optimized architecture : 18%
• question type
• multi choice : pick 1 / many
• multi-select : pick correct
• difficulty technique
• phase 1 : do all the easy ones first
• phase 2 :
  • mark hard questions for review
  • focus on medium questions
• phase 3 : do hard questions, guess if running out of time

Question Technique

• question structure
• 1-2 lines of preamble (scenario)
• question itself
• 4-5 answers to pick from
• generally 1 or 2 answers which can be excluded
• locate these first
• most questions have a criteria or restriction
• cost effective
• best practice
• highest performance
• timeframe