Sources and method

Only the vendor's own pages

Every price, length, question count, validity period, renewal rule and prerequisite is read from the vendor's official certification pages, exam guides and FAQs, and every exam links to the page it came from, with short quotes kept as evidence. No prep sites, course sellers, forums or salary surveys. Where a vendor does not publish a value (many do not publish question counts or passing scores), the field is left out rather than guessed.

Checked every Thursday

Every Thursday at 12:15 UTC, the site reads each current exam's official page again (one request per exam) and compares the price, length and question count on the page with the week before. The first reading of a page is only a baseline, so a page has to change before a value can. When the page now shows a different value, the change is recorded with the old value, the new one, the date and the page, the exam shows the new value with an Unverified badge, and a person checks it. Microsoft's pages draw their price with a script, so its prices are read from the same data file those pages use.

When the plain patterns cannot tell which value a changed page now shows, a language model (Gemini, no web access, at most two calls a week) reads the changed text; it can only confirm a value that is written on the page.

History

Nothing is overwritten silently. Every change to a tracked field is appended to the change log first, and retired exams stay listed with their retirement date. Dated changes the vendors announce themselves (new exam versions, scheduled updates, retirements) are recorded from their pages too, including future dates.

Levels and tracks

• Foundational: Entry level: concepts and services, no hands-on experience required.
• Associate: Practitioner level: about a year of hands-on work with the platform.
• Professional: Advanced: design and run production systems, usually two years or more.
• Specialty: One domain in depth (security, machine learning, networking).
• Expert: The top of a vendor path, often requiring an associate credential first.

Vendors name their levels differently (AWS "Practitioner", Snowflake "Advanced", NVIDIA "Professional"); each exam page shows the vendor's own word next to this common scale.

Not company compliance

This site tracks the exams people take. Compliance (compliance.fru.dev) tracks the certifications companies hold, such as SOC 2, ISO 27001 and FedRAMP.

Across fru.dev

Vendor names and slugs follow the shared registry at companies.fru.dev; vendor pages link to the same company on sibling fru.dev sites.

Disclaimer

Exam facts from each vendor's own certification pages, with the date they were last checked. Prices exclude tax and vary by country; the vendor's page is the final word. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners. Use Suggest a correction on any page.