Download free ExamTopics practice questions and exam dumps from the terminal. Type an
exam code like SAA-C03, AZ-104 or SY0-701 and get a plain text file with every public
question, all answer choices, the suggested answer, and the community vote split.
Covers 2,289 exams across 187 providers — AWS, Microsoft Azure, Cisco, CompTIA, Google Cloud, Fortinet, Salesforce, VMware, Oracle, ServiceNow, Palo Alto and the rest. Nothing is hardcoded, so exams added to the site show up on their own.
Plain HTTP only. No browser, no headless runtime, no captcha solver, two dependencies.
It does not bypass the paywall. It reads discussion pages that are already public to anyone with a browser. See What this cannot do before you rely on it.
- What you get
- Supported exams
- Before you start
- Getting started on Windows
- Getting started on macOS or Linux
- Finding your exam
- How long it takes
- What it keeps on disk
- FAQ
- Troubleshooting
- What this cannot do
- Running the tests
- How it works, and why
- Project layout
A <exam> dumps.txt file full of entries like this:
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Topic 1 | Question 3
https://www.examtopics.com/discussions/github/view/321807-exam-github-actions-topic-1-question-3-discussion/
As a developer, which workflow steps should you perform to publish an image
to the GitHub Container Registry? (Choose three.)
A. Use the actions/setup-docker action
B. Authenticate to the GitHub Container Registry.
C. Build the container image.
D. Push the image to the GitHub Container Registry
E. Pull the image from the GitHub Container Registry.
Suggested answer: ABD
Community answer: BCD [BCD 3 (100%)]
Suggested answer is ExamTopics' own answer. Community answer is what commenters voted
for, with the vote split. They disagree often, which is useful to see.
Every exam listed on ExamTopics, found by exam code or by name. A sample of what people usually come here for — all verified present in the index:
| Exam code | Certification | Provider |
|---|---|---|
SAA-C03 |
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate | amazon |
DVA-C02 |
AWS Certified Developer – Associate | amazon |
CLF-C02 |
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner | amazon |
SOA-C02 |
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate | amazon |
AZ-900 |
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals | microsoft |
AZ-104 |
Microsoft Azure Administrator | microsoft |
AZ-204 |
Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure | microsoft |
AZ-305 |
Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions | microsoft |
AI-900 |
Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals | microsoft |
DP-203 |
Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure | microsoft |
PL-300 |
Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst | microsoft |
SC-200 |
Microsoft Security Operations Analyst | microsoft |
MS-900 |
Microsoft 365 Fundamentals | microsoft |
MD-102 |
Endpoint Administrator | microsoft |
GH-300 |
GitHub Copilot | microsoft |
SY0-701 |
CompTIA Security+ 2023 | comptia |
200-301 |
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) | cisco |
CISSP |
Certified Information Systems Security Professional | isc |
PCNSE |
Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer | palo-alto-networks |
associate-cloud-engineer |
Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer | |
professional-cloud-architect |
Google Professional Cloud Architect |
Largest providers by exam count: microsoft (231), cisco (207), ibm (112), fortinet (102), vmware (92), dell (86), hp (80), salesforce (71), juniper (70), sap (62), huawei (58).
That table is a sample, not the list. If ExamTopics has it, this finds it — type the code
and see. (ExamTopics publishes 189 provider pages; elastic and fsmtb list no exams at
all, which is why the provider count is 187.)
You need Python 3.8 or newer. That is all. (Developed and tested on Python 3.13.)
To check whether you already have it, open a terminal and run:
python --version
If you see something like Python 3.13.1, you are ready — skip to Step 2.
If you see an error, or a version below 3.8, install Python first:
- Go to https://www.python.org/downloads/
- Download the latest version for your operating system.
- On Windows, tick "Add python.exe to PATH" on the first screen of the installer. This is easy to miss and everything else depends on it.
- Finish the installer, then close and reopen your terminal.
Either clone it with git:
git clone https://github.com/swarnava-dutta/Free-Exam-Dumps.git
cd Free-Exam-Dumps
Or, if you do not have git: click the green Code button on the GitHub page, choose Download ZIP, then right-click the downloaded file and Extract All. Open the extracted folder.
Double-click:
install_dependencies.bat
A black window opens and does three things: creates a private Python environment in a
.venv folder, installs requests and tqdm into it, and stops. It leaves the rest of
your computer's Python untouched.
It takes about 25 seconds. When you see this, it worked:
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Done. Next: double-click run_scraper.bat
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Press any key to close the window. You never need to run this again unless you move the
folder or delete .venv.
Double-click:
run_scraper.bat
On the very first run you will see a progress bar labelled Loading exam index. The tool
is reading the exam list for all 189 provider pages so it can recognise any code you type.
This takes about 30 seconds, once. The finished list is saved to
.examtopics_index.json (about 165 KB) and reused, so every later run starts instantly.
Exam code or name (example: SAA-C03, AZ-104, SY0-701): saa-c03
Press Enter. The tool confirms what it found before doing any work:
Exam: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03
Provider: amazon
Published: 1019 questions
Scanning: 604 discussion pages
Then it runs two passes, each with a progress bar and a live count:
Scanning pages: 79%|#######9 | 480/604 [00:02<00:00, found=1019]
Wrote aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-saa-c03 links.txt (1019 links)
Fetching questions: 100%|##########| 1019/1019 [01:34<00:00, 10.77q/s]
Wrote aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-saa-c03 dumps.txt (1019 questions)
Coverage: 1019 of 1019 published (100%)
The scan bar stops short of 100% on purpose. Once every published question has been found there is nothing left to look for, so the remaining listing pages are skipped.
Run the same exam again and the completed files are reused immediately. To download a fresh copy instead, run:
.venv\Scripts\python.exe main.py --refresh
Both files land in the project folder, next to main.py:
| File | Contents |
|---|---|
<exam> links.txt |
every discussion URL, grouped by topic, in question order |
<exam> dumps.txt |
the questions, choices, suggested answer and vote split |
Open either one in Notepad, VS Code, or anything else. They are plain UTF-8 text.
The links file is written before the slower question pass starts, so if you get bored and close the window you still keep the links.
The .bat files are Windows-only, but the tool itself is not. Run three commands:
git clone https://github.com/swarnava-dutta/Free-Exam-Dumps.git
cd Free-Exam-Dumps
python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txtThen, to scrape:
.venv/bin/python main.pyEverything from Step 4 onward is identical.
You do not need to know which provider an exam belongs to. Type the code and the tool works it out.
An exact code goes straight through:
Exam code or name: az-104
Exam: Microsoft Azure Administrator
Provider: microsoft
A partial name gives you a numbered list:
Exam code or name: solutions architect
1. [microsoft] Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect
2. [microsoft] Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect
3. [ibm] IBM Cloud Solutions Architect v3
4. [huawei] HCIP-Cloud Service Solutions Architect V3.5
5. [amazon] AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
6. [amazon] AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C02
7. [amazon] AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03
8. [amazon] AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional SAP-C02
Pick a number, or press Enter to search again:
Type a number and press Enter. Press Enter on its own to search again instead.
A brand-new exam is fetched from the site automatically. The saved exam list never expires, so an exam added since you built it is not on it. Rather than telling you it does not exist, the tool rechecks examtopics.com and searches again:
Exam code or name: hpe7-a07
'hpe7-a07' is not on the saved list. Checking examtopics.com...
2289 exams indexed.
Exam: HPE Campus Access Mobility Expert
Provider: hp
That recheck happens at most once per run (~25s), so if you simply mistyped, the next attempt is instant:
Exam code or name: saa-c99
'saa-c99' is not on the saved list. Checking examtopics.com...
2289 exams indexed.
No exam matches 'saa-c99'. Try an exam code such as SAA-C03.
Exam code or name: zzznotreal
No exam matches 'zzznotreal'. Try an exam code such as SAA-C03.
Dashes, spaces and capitals do not matter. SAA-C03, saa c03 and saac03 all work.
Measured on a normal home connection:
| Building the exam list, first run only | ~30s, then reused |
| Already downloaded exam | instant |
Small exam, e.g. github-actions (14 questions) |
~9s |
Medium exam, e.g. hpe7-a07 (18 questions, 96 pages) |
~17s |
Large exam, SAA-C03 (1019 questions, 604 pages) |
169s |
Speed is limited by ExamTopics, not by the tool. Scanning runs at about 8 pages/second and question fetching at about 11 questions/second. Using more parallel workers was measured and does not help — see the notes at the bottom.
One hidden file, .examtopics_index.json, about 165 KB. That is the list of 2,289 exams
and which provider each belongs to, saved so the ~190 requests behind it are not repeated
on every run. It has no expiry, and it is refreshed automatically when a search misses.
The two output files double as the cache. If their link and question counts match, the next
run returns them immediately. If only the links file exists after an interrupted run, the
slow provider scan is skipped. Use --refresh whenever you want current site data.
Earlier versions cached the pages too. It was removed: within a single run every page is fetched exactly once, so the cache never sped up the run you were waiting on — it only helped a later run, in exchange for 437 MB of disk and three bugs (a stale question count that cut scans short, unbounded growth, and a sweep that expired the wrong tier). Deleting it made a full SAA-C03 run faster, 192s to 169s, because it no longer writes 250 MB of HTML while you wait.
Raw pages are still never cached. This avoids the old 437 MB cache while making repeat runs instant and letting interrupted runs resume from the saved links.
Output files are overwritten by --refresh, so move or rename anything you want to keep.
Is this free? Yes. No account, no key, no paid tier, nothing to sign up for.
Does it bypass the ExamTopics paywall? No. Discussion pages are public; the tool reads those. It does not log in, solve captchas, or touch contributor-only or paid content.
Why do I get fewer questions than the Published: count? Because only questions someone
has discussed have a public page. Popular exams come out complete; niche ones come out
sparse. Every run prints the exact coverage. See
What this cannot do.
Which exams work? All 2,289 on the site, across 187 providers. There is no supported-exam list to maintain — the tool builds the index from ExamTopics itself, so new exams work the day they are added.
Can I get AZ-900, SAA-C03 or SY0-701 dumps with it? Yes — those are just exam codes you type at the prompt, same as any other. See Supported exams.
Do I need Chrome, Selenium or Playwright? No. It is plain HTTP with requests. Two
dependencies total.
Does it work on macOS and Linux? Yes. Only the two .bat helpers are Windows-specific;
run main.py directly instead.
Are the answers correct? Suggested answer is ExamTopics' answer and it is sometimes
wrong. That is exactly why the community vote is printed beside it. Use both, trust neither
blindly.
How do I re-download an exam? --refresh. Without it, finished output files are reused.
Will it get me rate-limited or banned? It makes ordinary GET requests at roughly the speed a fast browser would, and backs off to a slow retry pass when the site pushes back. Nothing here is stealthy, and nothing here hammers the site.
| What you see | What to do |
|---|---|
'python' is not recognized |
Python is not installed, or you missed Add python.exe to PATH. Re-run the Python installer and tick that box. |
[ERROR] Could not create the virtual environment. |
Same cause as above. Install Python 3 from python.org, then re-run install_dependencies.bat. |
[WARN] .venv not found. |
You skipped Step 2. Double-click install_dependencies.bat first. |
| The window flashes open and closes instantly | Do not run the .py file directly. Use run_scraper.bat, which keeps the window open. |
| The scan bar stops at 76% but the files are written | Normal, and the run succeeded. Every published question was already found, so the rest of the provider's listing pages were skipped. |
No exam matches '...' |
The tool has already rechecked the site, so the exam genuinely is not there under that name. Type part of the exam name instead and pick from the list. |
is not on the saved list. Checking examtopics.com... |
Normal. The exam was added after you built the list, so it is being rebuilt. ~25s, once per run. |
No discussion links found for this exam. |
Nobody has posted discussions for that exam yet. There is nothing to download. |
[WARN] N pages failed after retries. |
A few requests were refused. The output is still written, just short by those pages. Wait a minute and run it again. |
Fewer questions than the Published: count |
Normal. See "What this cannot do" below. |
It feels stuck on Loading exam index |
It is fetching 189 pages. Give it 30 seconds. It only happens on the first run, or after deleting .examtopics_index.json. |
Be clear-eyed about this before you rely on it.
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It does not bypass anything. No login, no contributor access, no captcha solving, no paid tier. It reads pages that are already public to anyone with a browser.
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You only get questions the community has discussed. This is the big one, and it varies enormously by exam. Every fresh scrape ends with the number stated plainly:
Wrote github-actions dumps.txt (14 questions) Coverage: 14 of 99 published (14%)Measured coverage:
Exam Got Published Coverage Question numbers saa-c031019 1019 100% 1–1019, no gaps dva-c02557 557 100% 1–557, no gaps ai-900246 246 100% 1–246, no gaps gh-300103 116 89% 7 topics, 6 gaps hpe7-a0718 62 29% 1–59, 41 gaps github-actions14 99 14% 1–52, 38 gaps Popular exams are complete. Niche ones are sparse, because a question nobody discussed has no public page to read. Nothing can fix that from outside the paywall.
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Answers are not authoritative.
Suggested answeris ExamTopics' answer and it is sometimes wrong; that is exactly why the community vote is shown next to it. Use both. -
Questions can go stale. Exams get updated. Nothing here knows which questions are still current.
There is one test file with 11 checks. It needs no network and no test framework:
.venv\Scripts\python.exe test_examtopics.py
ok test_block_detection_does_not_eat_real_pages
ok test_exam_index_extraction_and_search
ok test_exam_list_is_saved_reused_and_rebuilt
ok test_exam_matching_is_anchored
ok test_finished_outputs_are_reused
ok test_multi_answer_question
ok test_page_and_question_counts
ok test_provider_normalization
ok test_question_parsing
ok test_question_parsing_tolerates_missing_parts
ok test_url_rebuild_and_ordering
11 checks passed.
Run this after changing anything. Each check guards a bug that actually happened.
Every decision below came from measuring the live site, not from guessing.
- Questions come from discussion pages, not exam pages.
/exams/<provider>/<exam>/view/is free for page 1 only; page 2 onward is a paywall. Discussion pages are free and carry the question, the choices, the suggested answer and the vote tally. - The suggested answer is the choice ExamTopics tags with
correct-hiddenin its HTML, which is what its paywalled "Show Suggested Answer" button reveals. "Choose three" questions tag several, so all of them are collected. - There is no per-exam discussion listing, so finding one exam's questions means scanning the provider's listing pages. The scan stops early once every published question has been found — SAA-C03 stops at page 480 of 604, AI-900 at page 1152 of 1519.
- Exam matching is anchored on
exam<slug>topic. Without the anchor,aws-certified-developer-associatealso matches every...-dva-c02question. - Link text is matched, not just the URL. ExamTopics truncates long URLs before the
-topicanchor, so SAA-C03 matches 0 of its entries by URL and all 1019 by link text. - 24 parallel workers. 16, 32, 64 and 96 were all measured: every one lands on ~6-8 requests/second, so the limit is server-side and extra workers only add sockets.
- Blocked-page detection requires the site nav to be missing. Searching whole pages for phrases like "access denied" silently discarded real AWS IAM questions — 2 of 1019 on SAA-C03.
- Raw pages are never cached. Completed text outputs are reused instead. This gives instant repeat runs without the old 437 MB HTML cache or its stale-count bug.
- Listing workers persist across chunks. Their HTTP connections stay warm, and the provider's first listing page is reused instead of downloaded twice.
- A fresh scrape fetches the published question count live, because it decides when the scan stops early. Reading a stale low count stops the scan short: feeding the scanner an understated 200 on SAA-C03 returned 556 links instead of 1019.
- Failures get a second slow pass. Anything still missing after that is reported as a
[WARN], never silently dropped.
Repeatability was checked rather than assumed. Across saa-c03, dva-c02, gh-300,
hpe7-a07 and github-actions:
- The early stop was compared against a full scan of every page on all five exams. Same links both ways, every time — it has never been observed to lose a question.
- Two independent scans of
saa-c03, both downloading all 604 listing pages fresh, returned identical 1019-link sets. - Two independent cold fetches of all 1154 questions across four exams produced identical results, with zero entries missing question text, choices, a suggested answer or a community answer, and no duplicate topic/question pairs.
One inherent caveat: the provider listing is ordered by last activity, so pages can shift while a scan is in flight. No drift was observed in testing, and duplicates are removed either way, but a very active provider could in principle move an entry across a page boundary mid-scan. The coverage line is your check on that.
main.py terminal app
install_dependencies.bat one-time setup (Windows)
run_scraper.bat launcher (Windows)
requirements.txt requests, tqdm
test_examtopics.py offline checks
examtopics/index.py provider and exam index, exam code lookup
examtopics/scanner.py listing scan and question fetch
examtopics/parsers.py HTML extraction
examtopics/matching.py slugs and exam matching
examtopics/http_client.py retrying GET, thread pool
examtopics/output.py the two output files
examtopics/settings.py tunables
Want it faster or slower? Everything adjustable lives in examtopics/settings.py:
WORKERS, TIMEOUT, RETRIES, CHUNK_PAGES and RETRY_WORKERS.
Issues and pull requests are welcome. Run test_examtopics.py before opening one — it needs
no network, and each check guards a bug that actually happened.
If a provider's pages change shape and parsing breaks, an issue with the exam code and the output you saw is enough to work from.
See LICENSE.
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