Here are 5 steps for AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification you can follow to make sure your journey also results in success:
Let me know in the comment section below if this study guide was helpful to you.AWS has launched new version of AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate SAA-C02) in March 2020 and based on my journey of getting certified, would like to share my experience to make you successful.
Note: I did not make use of the AWS Free Tier and hands-on labs from Stephane Maarek. If you can focus for at least 4 to 6 weeks, depending also on the video content you want to consume, that is enough time to pass the exam. I even had a break of three weeks where I could not study. It was planned that I take the exam after 6 weeks of preparation, but with three kids at home and very busy work schedule, I had to postpone the exam two times. I started in March 2022 and took the exam at the beginning of June 2022. I did that for some of the products that were a little bit more difficult to understand for me.Įxample: Let’s say I had a hard time to understand VMware Cloud on AWS (not part of the exam blueprint), then the FAQs helped me to better understand the service availability, service definition, configuration options, integrations and use cases. I did not do it, but if you have time, then browse through the AWS product-related FAQs. I recommend going through the slide deck at least two or three times before you start with the practice exams. You need to know the different core service and understand the details like high availability options, encryption or the characteristics and differences of all the database offerings like Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, RDS or Redshift. Note: If you think you can just memorize all the answers from the practice exams available on the internet (and Udemy), you are most probably going to fail. While I recognized a few of the use cases during exam, I felt the opposite: the questions during the exam were more difficult In the Udemy comment section people said that the practice exam questions were more difficult than the ones on the exam. As a beginner like me, you get a better idea of the exam and how you can architect solutions and combine different AWS services. The practice exams from Jon Bonso were very helpful. This allowed me to learn faster and be more efficient! I did not have the time to watch the complete 27 hours of on-demand video content, but Stephane Maarek gives you also his slide deck with over 800 pages that cover everything you need to know for the exam.
Wait for these kinds of special offers and do not pay the full price. Jon’s practice exams were around the same (instead of $30 I believe). Note: I paid around $15 (instead $100) for Stephane’s training.
I had no professional experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) products, currently work for VMware, and passedthe AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam (AWS SAA-C02) with my first attempt.