Autism

Does anyone at work actually care if you pass or not? It sounds like taking the exam was more your idea than a job requirement. In that case, maybe the pressure you're feeling is mostly self-imposed... Like maybe it's fine if you demonstrate in some other way that you made good use of the funding and time for training, but just couldn't pass the poorly-written exam.

I think it's possible to set expectations like "wow I really benefitted from this course, and I'm looking forward to applying what I learned at work... But you wouldn't believe how clumsy the exam questions are. I'm going to give it a shot, but tbh if I don't pass the first time, I think I'd rather just forget about the cert instead of wasting energy chasing it. What do you think?"

Of course you still want to give it your best shot and learn how to solve this sort of thing, but hopefully you can do it from a place of confidence and desire for growth... not a place of terror, lol.

P.S. I dunno if this is helpful or not, but I think sometimes they make certification exams obtuse on purpose so that you're not likely to pass the first time... Especially when they're like $150 a pop. They want it to appear like a high standard, but it's hard to do that in a fair way, so they settle for badly articulated moon logic.