IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[L&HH]

Anyone know of any good study material to use to pass these 2 AWS Certs
AWS Solutions Architect -Associate and AWS Solutions Architect-Professional?

There's 3 courses on udemy people recommend, in order of the most to least recommended:

1. Stephane Maarek: Stephane Maarek | AWS Certified Solutions Architect & Developer | Best Selling Instructor, Kafka Guru, AWS Certified Developer| Udemy
2. LinuxAcademy: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
3. Cloud Computing Certification Training Courses A Cloud Guru (They say this course doesn't cover all the topics they'll test you on. I'm only mentioning this one because this is the site my brother used to pass his Azure test)

You don't need to do all 3 of these courses most people use just one or they might skim through a second one just for extra practice.

Then after you finish one of these courses it's recommended to use the practice exams from Jon Bonso: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Practice Exams

Or some people start with the Whizlabs: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional tests which are a bit easier. Once they consistently pass those with 75%+ they move on to the Jon Bonso tests which are much harder but much more accurately reflect the real test and may even be more difficult than the real test.

Also if you have a degree or some other IT cert (A+, Sec+, Net+) Amazon has Technical Apprentice programs where they'll pay you to learn this.

 

[xXMASHERXx]

Most IT you learned at home or at school? I have the splunk image but it's a PITA to install....

If I could find a real tech school for some skills I'd do that... home-based learning is very tough especially without the fundamentals down.

I would say most was learned at home and on the job. I been out of school for over 10 years so things might be different now but most of what I was learning was theory. In the real world companies have constraints that force them to do things that may not be by the book. That said almost all of my learning today is done at home in a homelab. Anything that I am trying to learn is too critical to try to learn in a live environment and most companies don't have a proper test.

 

[Scott Larock]

I'm trying to do this and putty into the VM from the host

How to emulate a network using VirtualBox

having issues

I don't have a home lab but I was thinking about trying to get a cheap cisco router, switch and learn that or just use GNS3.

I just got one pc with 16 gigs of ram and virtualbox.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

I'm trying to do this and putty into the VM from the host

How to emulate a network using VirtualBox

having issues

I don't have a home lab but I was thinking about trying to get a cheap cisco router, switch and learn that or just use GNS3.

I just got one pc with 16 gigs of ram and virtualbox.

What issues are you running into?

 

[Scott Larock]

What issues are you running into?

can't ssh from putty to the Virtualbox machine... it's all set up like they have it so it's basically 5 clones 1 non clone.

 

[xXMASHERXx]

What message are you getting when you try to make the SSH connection?

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

can't ssh from putty to the Virtualbox machine... it's all set up like they have it so it's basically 5 clones 1 non clone.

Make sure openssh-server is installed in the VMs, make sure port 22 is forwarded in the networking settings. Beyond that it might be an SSH key issue.

 

[Scott Larock]

ssh (username)@destination IP destination port

I'm going vm to vm

 

[L&HH]

AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam this weekend. Wish me luck brehs

Did you get it? What were your job prospects life afterwards?

 

[KingTut]

Did you get it? What were your job prospects life afterwards?

Got it awhile ago. Have three of them now. With the first one I got a few job offers but once I got the developer cert I got a ton of interviews and a handful of good offers. Working as a Cloud Engineer right now.

 

[Trustus]

I would say most was learned at home and on the job. I been out of school for over 10 years so things might be different now but most of what I was learning was theory. In the real world companies have constraints that force them to do things that may not be by the book. That said almost all of my learning today is done at home in a homelab. Anything that I am trying to learn is too critical to try to learn in a live environment and most companies don't have a proper test.

What's your home lab looking like I need options.

 

[xXMASHERXx]

What's your home lab looking like I need options.

Nothing fancy just a few Dell Precision T5610 running Proxmox. Mix of Windows and Linux OSes. Mine is mostly used to mimic what I am dealing with at work or plan to implement. With all that said what are you trying to accomplish with your lab?

 

[Trustus]

Nothing fancy just a few Dell Precision T5610 running Proxmox. Mix of Windows and Linux OSes. Mine is mostly used to mimic what I am dealing with at work or plan to implement. With all that said what are you trying to accomplish with your lab?

Mostly setting up networking, security environments. The route I want to travel is Networking > Linux > Security > Cloud. I'll do Windows too.

 

[xXMASHERXx]

Mostly setting up networking, security environments. The route I want to travel is Networking > Linux > Security > Cloud. I'll do Windows too.

I don't know how far along you are but if you have a decent PC you can run VirtualBox, Hyper-V, or VMWare Workstation and start setting up a lab. @Scott Larock made a previous post about setting up a networking lab using VirtualBox you might want to check out.

 

[Scott Larock]

Maybe a little easier running unbuntu with the GUI rather than from the command line but make sure you got at least 10gigs memory free you can spare for the lab. Unbuntu server is a problem and Debian is a little harder to use than unbuntu. If your money straight you can probably pick up a few chesp laptops at Staples for under 200 and throw Linux on them and get a cheap switch from Amazon for under 25 shipped.

I'm still working on mine but unbuntu server, I can copy and paste to the command line from the host computer.

Also use Twitter and follow that Brian little dude and follow this other dude named David bothal. He has a gns3 course for sale forn40 bucks but it's not really newbie friendly.

If any other you nrehs wanna group chat so we can all learn send me a pm.