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[Continuously updated] How many hours after an AWS exam does the result notification arrive?

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After taking an AWS exam, isn’t the wait for the result the most nerve-racking part? It is for me. I took the result timings from my own exam experiences plus reports I found online, and summarized only “how many hours it took after the exam for the notification to arrive” in the tables below. Note: continuously updated.

Rough conclusion: if you finish the exam sometime from the morning through around 15:00, the result often arrives on the same day. Even when it is late, the notification usually arrives within 24 hours.

Rules for these tables

  • “Fastest notification” uses whichever of email, AWS Certification Account, or Credly the person noticed first
  • “Wait time” is basically calculated as exam finished → notification received
  • If the source article does not state the exam end time, I roughly supplement it from the exam start time plus the official estimated exam duration
    • Associate: exam end = exam start + 2 hours
    • Professional: exam end = exam start + 2 hours 30 minutes
    • Specialty: exam end = exam start + 2 hours 20 minutes

Associate

CertificationExam dateExam startExam endNotification timeWait timeFastest notification typeSource
SAA-C03Sep 29, 202215:0017:00same day 18:551:55EmailThis blog: SAA-C03 exam experience
DVA-C02Mar 29, 202316:0018:00next day 18:3624:36EmailThis blog: DVA-C02 exam experience
SOA-C02Oct 2, 202317:3019:30next day 18:1422:44EmailThis blog: SOA-C02 exam experience
SAA-C03Feb 18, 202409:0011:15around same day 20:008:45AWS Certification AccountZenn: c_hero scrap
SOA-C02Mar 20, 202409:1511:30around same day 19:157:45AWS Certification AccountZenn: c_hero scrap
DVA-C02Apr 7, 202409:1511:00around same day 19:158:15EmailZenn: c_hero scrap
SAA-C03Jul 202313:0015:00same day 18:173:17EmailQiita: uirole
SOA-C02Apr 202410:0012:00same day 19:187:18EmailQiita: uirole
DVA-C02Mar 202413:3015:00next day 03:0012:00EmailQiita: uirole
SAA-C03Dec 202312:0014:00around same day 21:007:00CredlyInfra-ya
DVA-C02Dec 202314:0016:00around next day 04:0012:00CredlyInfra-ya
SOA-C02Jan 202409:0011:00around same day 21:0010:00CredlyInfra-ya

Professional

CertificationExam dateExam startExam endNotification timeWait timeFastest notification typeSource
DOP-C02Mar 24, 202514:4517:15same day 20:153:00EmailThis blog: DOP-C02 exam experience
SAP-C02Sep 30, 202514:0016:30same day 20:203:50EmailThis blog: SAP-C02 exam experience
SAP-C02Mar 202413:3016:30same day 19:303:00EmailQiita: uirole
SAP-C02Feb 202409:0012:00around same day 21:009:00CredlyInfra-ya
DOP-C02Mar 202413:0016:30around next day 04:0011:30CredlyInfra-ya

Specialty

CertificationExam dateExam startExam endNotification timeWait timeFastest notification typeSource
DAS-C01Mar 31, 202415:3017:50next day 19:1525:25EmailThis blog: DAS-C01 exam experience
SCS-C02Sep 30, 202413:0015:20same day 19:163:56EmailThis blog: SCS-C02 exam experience
SCS-C02Oct 202410:0011:30same day 19:107:40EmailQiita: uirole
DAS-C01Feb 202409:0011:00around same day 21:0010:00CredlyInfra-ya
DBS-C01Mar 202409:3011:30around same day 21:009:30CredlyInfra-ya

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