Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Happy Thursday!
Welcome back to HOW TO // AI. Last week I said something new was landing today, and that it lives on your phone. Here it is: for months, the most-clicked thing I've ever made has been AI certification practice questions. Then readers started asking to practice on their phones, in line for coffee, on the train, between meetings. So I built it.
Here's what's in today's issue:
📱 I Built an App. It's Live Today.
🎯 Which Cert Should You Start With?
🎁 Share This Newsletter, Earn Every Kit I've Made
🎯 Today's download lives somewhere new: HOW TO AI — CERT on the App Store. Free to download, free sample questions for every exam.
Let's get into it!
📱 I built an app. It's live today.
It's called HOW TO AI — CERT, and it does one thing: gets you ready to pass an AI certification, in the gaps of your day.
What's inside:
3,301 original practice questions across 11 AI and cloud certifications: AWS AI Practitioner and ML Engineer Associate, Microsoft Azure AI-901 and AI-103, both NVIDIA certs, CompTIA AI Fundamentals, Google Cloud Generative AI Leader, Oracle OCI AI Foundations, CertNexus Certified AI Practitioner (AIP-210), and VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator. Every question is weighted to the official exam blueprint, so you practice what the exam actually tests.
Plain-English explanations on every answer, right or wrong. The goal is that you understand the concept, not memorize the letter.
Quick 10s, full timed mock exams, and weak-area drills that use spaced repetition to resurface what you miss until it sticks.
A readiness score that tells you when you're actually prepared, so you book the exam with confidence instead of hope.
An AI tutor, powered by Claude, when an explanation isn't enough and you want to ask follow-up questions.
Question of the Day and streaks, because five focused minutes daily beats a panicked Saturday every time.
Flashcards, cheat sheets, and a glossary for every exam. Works offline. iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 and up.
What it costs: downloading is free, and every exam has a free sample question set, no account hoops. If it clicks for you, Pro unlocks everything (all 3,301 questions, all mocks, the tutor, every future cert I add) for $11.99 a month or $39.99 a year. The honest note: all questions are original, written from the public exam objectives. No brain dumps, nothing copied from real exams, and no certification body endorses this app. It's independent, like everything else I make.
If you're on Android: the full practice dashboard at howtoai.com/ai-exam-prep works in any browser today. And reply with the word "Android" so I can count the votes.
🎯 Which cert should you start with?
If you missed the deep dive, I ranked all 11 AI certifications a few weeks back: which ones hiring managers recognize, which fit your stack, and the 3 traps that make any cert worthless. Read it before you pick your exam in the app, then let the free practice questions be your tiebreaker.
🎁 Share this newsletter, earn every kit I've made
One favor before you go. If the app is useful to you, it is probably useful to someone you work with, or that friend who keeps saying they should finally get certified. Send them this issue using your link below and you get paid for it:
🎁 3 referrals → the Complete Kit Vault: every kit I've ever made, one organized hub, every future kit added automatically
📕 10 referrals → my book, Amplified, in PDF and EPUB. Free.
Tap the button, pick one person, and you are a third of the way to the Vault. Your link and progress tracker:
🎯 Try this today: download the app, pick your cert, and run the free Quick 10. Then reply with your score, first try, no warmups. I'll share the class average next week.
📬 In case you missed our last few issues
Get AI certified (or don't)
All 11 AI certifications ranked, the 3 traps that waste money, and free practice questions to find yours.
I stopped typing
Why talking to your AI gets you 3x the context and better answers. Free Talk-to-AI Kit included.
Write better emails with AI in 5 minutes
The Context → Task → Tone formula that stops AI sounding like a robot. Free 5-Minute Email Toolkit included.
🤔 Got questions?
Have a question you want answered? Which cert are you going after, and what's standing between you and booking the exam? Email [email protected] and you just might be featured in an upcoming issue!
This newsletter is your starter kit for mastering AI with confidence. We keep things simple, show real examples, and focus on quick wins you can repeat.
Stay curious, stick with it, and watch your skills grow week by week!
Until next time :)
— David
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