I don't do IT at all. I had little python/data science class about 4 years ago, but aside from a few kindergarten level web scrapers (Shout out to Selenium), I'm not that tech savvy.
But I got my CCP about 2 weeks ago. That's the basic one to get for folks thinking about getting into cloud/IT.
It took me 2 months to study for it and basically learn a new language.
Amazon has horrible naming conventions.
- S3 - is Simple Storage Service (get it, S3).
- Kubernetes (which is not an Amazon thing, but something they handle) is K8 - because ubernetes is 8 letters? (it's 9!).
- Managed Kafka Service is MSK, not MKS.
- ELB is NEVER Elastic Beanstalk, but instead Elastic Load Balancer.
Get a course
AND I will blow 100 bucks on a dinner, but I wouldn't spend 100 bucks on a training course that could make me 100k in a year, 1M in 5......So I wasted my time watching free courses on Youtube, doing free questions on Youtube, instead of spending a few bucks to cut down the learning time.
I made 3 outlines, watched 24 hours of courses, googled every white paper it seems, updated outlines, about 5,000 practice questions - a good # of which were either wrong or outdated, and 95% by Indians from the subcontinent speaking "English".
If you're an IT person, it should be relatively easy. It's a 100 dollar exam? So I'd find a practice test and take that before taking it raw.
But if your'e coming in green like myself, Things like I really didn't know there was a web server and an application server. It was such "duh" moment that I sorta questioned if this was right for me.
Lot of them emails that get sent by the IT department about "patches" - start making a lot of sense.
I'm aiming to get the SAA (Solutions Architect Associate) sometime this year, but I'm sort of waffling between that and building on my python skills.
Being the helpdesk person for the cloud - means on the 1) phone with external customers and 2) meetings. I'd rather just have meetings tbh.
