An independent, unofficial guide to three entry-level cloud certifications — not affiliated with or endorsed by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, or Google.
AWS — No prerequisitesAzure — No prerequisitesGoogle Cloud — No prerequisites
| Certification | Provider | Pass line | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) | Amazon Web Services | ~70% (700/1000 scaled) | Cloud value proposition, core AWS services, the Shared Responsibility Model, and billing/pricing fundamentals. |
| Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) | Microsoft | ~70% (700/1000 scaled) | Cloud concepts, core Azure services and architecture, and Azure management/governance tools. |
| Google Cloud Digital Leader | Google Cloud | ~70% (scaled score) | Digital transformation, Google Cloud's data/AI/infrastructure offerings, and cloud security and operations at a business level. |
Each mock exam draws the same number of questions as the real exam — 65 for AWS CLF-C02, 50 for Azure AZ-900, 50 for Google Cloud Digital Leader — in the same time window (60–90 minutes), pulled fresh and reshuffled from a bank of hundreds of original questions per certification. No two attempts are the same set or order.
All three providers use a scaled score (out of 1000, or an equivalent scale) rather than publishing an exact raw percent-correct cutoff — "~70%" is the commonly cited approximate pass line for each. This platform's mock exam scores are a straightforward percent-correct, useful as a study signal rather than an exact prediction of the scaled score.