Study guides tell you what's on the exam. They don't tell you whether you'd actually pass it on Saturday.
That's the gap we closed. gitGood has certification practice exams for 13 certs - original, scenario-style questions with per-domain scoring, a timed exam simulator, and a full explanation for every single answer choice, right or wrong.
- AWS - Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02, free for registered users), Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03), Developer Associate (DVA-C02)
- Azure - AZ-900 (free), AZ-104, AZ-305, AI-900
- Google Cloud - Cloud Digital Leader (free), Associate Cloud Engineer
- Kubernetes - CKA, CKAD
- Security and IaC - CompTIA Security+, HashiCorp Terraform Associate
CLF-C02 and SAA-C03 now run at the real exam's full length - 65 questions on a 90- and 130-minute clock respectively, scored against the real cut score. The rest run shorter banks at the same per-question pace, and we're growing them.
Before you go do that, though, I want to talk about the thing we deliberately did not build, because it's the thing most of the practice-exam industry is quietly built on.
The dump trap
If you've googled "SAA-C03 practice questions," you've seen them: sites selling "real exam questions, updated weekly." Those are dumps - leaked copies of actual exam content - and they're a trap in two distinct ways.
The first trap is contractual. When you sit an AWS or Microsoft exam, you agree to an NDA. Sharing exam content violates it, and so does knowingly consuming it. Vendors run statistical forensics on answer patterns, and they do revoke certifications - sometimes ban candidates from the program entirely. You can spend months earning a cert and lose it over the study material you used. That's a terrible trade for a shortcut.
The second trap is worse, because it gets you even if you never get caught: dumps teach recall, not judgment.
Modern cert exams - especially the associate level and up - are scenario exams. A question gives you a company, a constraint, and four options that all technically work. Your job is to pick the one that's most cost-effective, most operationally simple, or most secure for that scenario. The skill being tested is decision-making under constraints.
Memorizing a dump trains exactly one thing: matching a question's wording to a stored answer. The moment the exam paraphrases the scenario, swaps the constraint from "minimize cost" to "minimize operational overhead," or rotates in a new question from the pool - and the pools rotate constantly - the memorized answer is worthless or, worse, actively wrong. This is why dump users fail retakes with strong "practice" scores, and why the ones who pass hit a wall in actual interviews. We've written before about how certified-but-not-hands-on candidates get filtered - dumps are how you end up on the wrong side of that filter with a cert you can't back up.
What we built instead
Every question in our practice exams is original and scenario-style, written against the public exam guide - same domains, same domain weights, same "here's a situation, pick the best option" shape as the real thing. No leaked content, nothing that violates anyone's NDA, nothing that can be revoked out from under you.
Three design decisions matter here:
1. Every choice gets an explanation - not just the correct one. Most practice tools tell you the right answer and move on. Ours explain why B is correct and why A, C, and D are wrong - because the distractors on real exams are engineered to be plausible, and learning to articulate why a plausible option is still wrong is precisely the judgment the exam tests. Reviewing the explanation for a question you got right is often where the real learning happens: you find out whether you reasoned your way there or guessed well.
2. Per-domain scoring. A raw "72%" hides everything useful. Our results break your score down by exam-guide domain, so you can see that your networking answers are solid but you're bleeding points in security. That turns "study more" into "spend this week on IAM and encryption scenarios" - which is the difference between an efficient final two weeks and a vague one.
3. Scenarios that make you choose, not recite. A recall question asks "What does S3 stand for?" A judgment question says: a startup needs to serve user uploads globally, cheaply, with the least operational overhead - which combination of services fits? The second kind is what you'll face on exam day, so it's the only kind we write.
Free where it counts
The three foundational exams - CLF-C02, AZ-900, and Google Cloud Digital Leader - are completely free for registered users. If you're at the start of your cloud journey (and if you are, read why Cloud Practitioner is the fastest worthwhile cert and what AZ-900 actually covers), you can take a full 65-question practice exam today without paying anything.
The associate-level and expert exams are Premium ($5/mo or $40/yr), and each includes a free 5-question sampler so you can judge the question quality yourself before spending a dollar. Same math as the study guides: a single exam attempt costs more than a year of Premium, so if the practice exam saves you one failed attempt, it's already paid for itself several times over.
How to slot this into your prep
Practice exams work best as a diagnostic loop, not a last-minute cram:
- Study a domain using the matching guide - we have a full SAA-C03 study plan and a DVA-C02 study plan if you want the week-by-week version.
- Take a practice exam and look at the per-domain breakdown, not the overall score.
- Review every explanation - especially for the ones you got right on a coin flip.
- Re-study your weakest domain, then re-test. Repeat until your weakest domain would pass on its own.
If a domain keeps slipping between sessions, that's a retention problem, not an understanding problem - spaced repetition fixes it.
What's next
Thirteen banks is a checkpoint, not the roadmap. Two things are in flight: growing every remaining bank to its real exam length the way CLF-C02 and SAA-C03 now are, and adding the certs people actually ask for. We're watching which certs get studied most in the certification hub and building for those next. Tell us what you want first.
Go find out if you'd pass on Saturday. It's a much better feeling to find out here.
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