Understand the Exam Goals

  1. Is AWS Certification Worth is? -> Yes
    • AWS currently dominates the market, there aren’t enough AWS professionals for open jobs
  2. Hads-on experience
    • get the competency around the service and products
    • prioritize
  3. Who should not take this exam?
    • zero hands-on experience with AWS
    • No time to study/prepare
      • maybe 3 hous, anight for a couple weeks, maybe a month

Study and Pass the Exam

  1. Using the exam blueprint
    • exam guid PDF from AWS website
  2. Topic1: Design
    • 60%
    • eg: EC2 …
  3. Topic2: Implementation/Deployment
    • 10%
  4. Topic3: Data Security
    • 20%
  5. Topic4: Troubleshooting
    • 10%
  6. Steps to prepare for exam success
    • Part 1
      • take an AWS training class
      • review the exam guid and sample questions
      • practice with self-paced labs
      • practice with an exam prep
    • Part 2
      • study AWS whitepapers
      • review AWS FAQs
      • take an exam prep wokshop
      • take a practice exam
      • schedule the exam
    • Part 3
      • create a skills list
        • use Excel to track skill, area, hands-on activity and questions
      • actually use the skill
        • at work, with a stud group for a non-profit
      • teach someone else
        • screencast, blog or speak

Learn Other ways to study

  1. AWS architecture Center
    • architecture from AWS website
  2. AWS Whitepapers
    • very important resource
  3. AWS community