Recently, I appeared for the "AWS Solution Architect Associate Certification" exam and am pleased to share that I passed with a score of 80.4%. For more details about this examination, you can visit https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-solutions-architect-associate/
My pleasure to share my personal experience while preparing this examination as follows:
- Choose right certificate as per your skill set and interest.
Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/certification/?nav=tc&loc=3 - Here we are talking about AWS solution architect associate certification only, so please go through all details of the exam.
- Exam time: 130 minutes, Cost: 150 USD (Practice exam: 20 USD)
- Courses and material followed by me:
a) Udemy online course : https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate/
Very helpful but it's not only sufficient.
b) Whizlabs test papaers: https://www.whizlabs.com/aws-solutions-architect-associate/
It helped so much to understand actual examination. Standard of questions is very similar to the actual exam. Please analyse your answers, read description and justification properly after the practice test.
c) Simplilearn online training: https://www.simplilearn.com/cloud-computing/aws-solution-architect-associate-training
It helped to me make hand dirty with AWS resources and services by using in some dummy project/requirements.
d) AWS Best Practices whitepaper, AWS Well-Architected webpage (various whitepapers linked)
e) AWS FAQ, specially associated to EC2, Load balancer, Route53, S3, RDS etc.
f) Self notes for revision perspective.
e) Playing with AWS services in AWS free account - Expected preparation time: If you have almost one year hands on experience using different services then 60-80 hours may require to be get ready for exam or ** condition applied, it matters person to person 😏.
- Unluckily if you didn't get chance to have your hands dirty with AWS services then you need to put more effort 😓 for AWS practice from your own on AWS free account . It's very hard nut to crack with study only😆.
- Before taking the actual exam, please complete a practice exam to assess your knowledge.
- You can flag any questions for review. Plan your time by allocating a specific duration per question and reserving 10-20 minutes to review skipped or doubtful answers.
- Arrive at the exam center at least 30 minutes early. If everything is in order, you may be allowed to start the exam early.
If I am able to remind some more information, will append here in future. Best of luck and Thanks to read 👍.
