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The catalog's foundational exams are AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and AWS Certified AI Practitioner. The associate exam that best covers the surrounding design is AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. Developer - Associate fits Lambda and Streams. CloudOps Engineer - Associate fits quotas and operations. Security - Specialty fits IAM and KMS.
AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty is the exam for complex networks, and its last day is 31 December 2026. Connect-specific recognition is a set of Skill Builder learning plans with Credly badges, passed at 80 percent: Communications Specialist, Fundamentals, AI Fundamentals, and Developer, plus an administrator track.
- Cloud Practitioner is the shared vocabulary of accounts, Regions, and billing.
- AI Practitioner is context for generative features. It does not configure a flow.
- The Communications Specialist badge covers telephony, IVR, flows, routing, and omnichannel.
- A badge is issued through Credly within about two weeks of the knowledge check. It is not a proctored certification.
Source: AWS Certification - Validate AWS Cloud Skills - Get AWS Certified AWS docs. last checked 2026-10
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- AWS Certification - Validate AWS Cloud Skills - Get AWS Certified AWS docs. last checked 2026-10
- AWS History and Timeline regarding Amazon Connect - Overview, Functions, Features, Summary of Updates, and Introduction to Amazon Connect Customer | hidekazu-ko community. last checked 2026-10
- Amazon Web Services - Wikipedia Wikipedia. last checked 2026-10