Introduction π
Amazon Web Services recently announced at Re:Invent an all-new way to demonstrate your AWS Serverless knowledge and skills with a verifiable, digital badge.
This Serverless Learning Plan has been designed to help you get started building with Serverless technology. AWS experts designed the content to provide a clear learning path to help you develop the skills you need quickly (and best of all, it's completely free!).
Over the holiday period I decided to take some time to sit down and complete the AWS provided learning path and I am happy to say that I received my AWS Serverless Skill Builder Badge from AWS, which you can view here.
The Course π
This learning plan consists of the following chapters:
- Getting into the Serverless Mindset
- AWS Lambda Foundations
- Designing Event-Driven Architectures
- Architecting Serverless Apps
- Scaling Serverless Apps
- Deploying Serverless Apps
- Amazon API Gateway for Serverless Apps
Most of the sections take around 1-2 hours of both written and video content so a good size to set yourself a goal of one per day or weekend etc.
The Exam π
To obtain your serverless badge from Credly, you will need to complete the assessment at the end of the learning path with a passing score of 80%. The exam consists of 50 multiple choice questions which you have unlimited time to answer (you may also save your progress and resume the exam at a later time).
One thing to keep in mind is that if you fail an attempt, you must wait 24 hours before you can reattempt the exam. Thankfully, you have unlimited attempts so use these 24 hours to your advantage and do some revision on the areas of the assessment that let you down (at the end of a failed exam, you are not shown which questions you failed on, but you are provided with some guidance on chapters you should focus on).
Conclusion π‘
Overall I think the Serverless Learning Plan is a fantastic way to dive right into the serverless mind sight. Whether you're already an AWS Solutions Architect or a Cloud Newbie, this course will walk through a lot of the architect and design best practices that most official documentation just doesn't cover.
Over the next few weeks I will be continuing to publish blog posts that delve into each chapter provided by this course, so please stay tuned π€ π
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