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See that video I posted earlier. It's not mandatory but it's always better to get the SAA first. Nothing is set in stone.
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See that video I posted earlier. It's not mandatory but it's always better to get the SAA first. Nothing is set in stone.
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I’m 8 AWS certs in right now, and this is the best path in my experience.….
Starting from scratch with minimum IT experience, then cloud practitioner is probably the first step.
If you have decent experience in IT, even if it’s all on prem skip that one. It holds almost no weight on the job market.
1. Solutions Architect Associate - it’s all concept based and use cases. You literally could have no clue how to configure a single service and still get this one. It’s a lot of memory but it’s a resume builder.
2. I would skip Sysop admin and developer unless you are just collecting certs. Focus on SA Pro next. It builds off associate and it’s the same use case based concept. The only difference is the questions are much longer, harder to read, and there may be multiple “correct” answers.
3. DevOps Engineer is next IMO. It’s almost the same study path as developer, except the questions have the same structure as SA Pro. If you are going to study CICD, containers, and serverless just go straight for this one and don’t bother with developer.
4. Specialty Certs. These aren’t very necessary imo but by now you have studied almost 75% of the material on most of these so it doesn’t hurt to get them while it’s still somewhat fresh in your mind. Security is the easiest one, followed by DB. It’s a little more on the configuration side than the SA certs but it’s not that bad.
As for prep I would use Adrian Cantrills video series and tutorial dojo practice tests. That’s literally all you need. You can probably get them all without ever actually logging into an AWS account
Starting from scratch with minimum IT experience, then cloud practitioner is probably the first step.
If you have decent experience in IT, even if it’s all on prem skip that one. It holds almost no weight on the job market.
1. Solutions Architect Associate - it’s all concept based and use cases. You literally could have no clue how to configure a single service and still get this one. It’s a lot of memory but it’s a resume builder.
2. I would skip Sysop admin and developer unless you are just collecting certs. Focus on SA Pro next. It builds off associate and it’s the same use case based concept. The only difference is the questions are much longer, harder to read, and there may be multiple “correct” answers.
3. DevOps Engineer is next IMO. It’s almost the same study path as developer, except the questions have the same structure as SA Pro. If you are going to study CICD, containers, and serverless just go straight for this one and don’t bother with developer.
4. Specialty Certs. These aren’t very necessary imo but by now you have studied almost 75% of the material on most of these so it doesn’t hurt to get them while it’s still somewhat fresh in your mind. Security is the easiest one, followed by DB. It’s a little more on the configuration side than the SA certs but it’s not that bad.
As for prep I would use Adrian Cantrills video series and tutorial dojo practice tests. That’s literally all you need. You can probably get them all without ever actually logging into an AWS account
Breh thanks so much for this advice, I’m starting from scratch and got the practitioner cert. Working on solutions architect right now I’m wondering if I should get developer as well since the materials will be mostly similar and it will be fresh in my mind or do I go pro?
Is it smart job wise to just stack these certs to make me stand out? Appreciate the advice breh
I would go straight to pro and then focus on dev ops pro. The 2 pro certs carry more weight than all the other certs combined.
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DaRealness
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After much thought, the SAA-SAP-DOP is the best course to take, similar to what @klientel said and this video (8:37 onwards is the best part of the video). I spoke to a few folks who are Cloud/Platform Engineers so that's the route I'm gonna take now for sure. I'll be focusing more on linux and kubernetes too rather than using that time for the Associates despite what I said earlier, but more importantly focusing on the job skills before taking the exams.
I work in a soc, about half of these motherfukkers have an aws cert but none of these fools could investigate an aws detection without me or one of the other engineers walking them through it.
These certs are a waster unless y have lab 3xperience
These certs are a waster unless y have lab 3xperience
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Whats the best way to get lab experience?
Build your own home lab hands down
DaRealness
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AWS doing a free exam retake offer:
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I hope they’re there to get the experience then
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Bruh… so things have changed drastically since i made this thread.AWS doing a free exam retake offer:
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AWS Certification helps learners build credibility and confidence by validating their cloud expertise with an industry-recognized credential and organizations identify skilled professionals to lead cloud initiatives using AWS.
I still want my AWS and still plan on getting it, but I think I might have to attempt to cram for the ccna first. Things are changing in my current position and I think I’m gonna be looking for a new job soon (I kinda want to take like a month to regroup though before trying to go hunting).
Basically I’m moving back to the states sooner than I anticipated in my original plan.
In that time I want to focus on ccna and get that out the way if possible.
But, I think thats still useful for AWS. I honestly just want to get into cloud but networking as well. I might be moving from overseas too so I really need to focus on one thing and from discussing it with my mom (who has CCNA) this route opens every door that I have been currently trying to sneak in the window for
I have been studying aws though. If it’s like what ive been studying then I like it
But free retakes are hard to pass up
