DEV Community: Shivam Dubey

Exam tips to Pass the AWS Solutions Architect Professional Exam in 2022

Shivam Dubey — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:11:37 +0000

Hey everyone! 👋 In this article, I have written about Exam tips to Pass the AWS Solutions Architect Professional Exam in 2022. I also shared Resources and Exam Strategies 👇

In this article, I had written about:
• What resources I used/recommend
• My advice for studying the content/topics covered
• Exam strategy on the day

Please remember to like & share! 🙌 If you have any questions or suggestions, let me know in the comments below.

before we get started as an introduction about lucy she is currently a university student in Sydney Australia and recently she passed the AWS certified solutions after the professional exam in 2022.

she said " so I passed this exam a couple of days ago and I was pretty happy about it because this has been on my to-do list for the longest time now and it's more of a long-term sort of goal because you need a couple of months to prepare for it so I wanted to share how I was able to pass this exam by sharing my resources advice and also my exam strategies and experience as well let's just jump right into it so this exam is three hours long with 75 multiple choice multi-select questions.

and it was a pretty intense exam really glad I was able to dedicate a couple of months leading up to the exam to spend some time doing some direct preparation so speaking of direct preparation I used was two main resources first of all I used video courses then I used practice exams and I went through this whole cycle of doing video courses than doing some practices.

exams to check up on my knowledge and what gaps I need to feel when going back to those video courses re-watching some of the videos and kind of continuing on the cycle so for the video courses there are two that I would like to recommend.

so the first resource is the Adrian cantor's solutions architect professional certification video course this video the course has a bunch of theory videos and also, hands-on labs and goes above and beyond in terms of the level of detail that it provides, it teaches you not only to pass the exam but also teaches you the skills and the knowledge to become a good essay so this course was pretty interesting.

I didn't end up doing the whole course because it was very very long um and I wanted to focus more time on practice questions instead but I managed to get through a good a chunk of this course did a lot of hands-on lab exercises and found it helpful in making me feel confident in learning some of the architectural patterns that might come up for the exam I switched over to another video course is Neil Davis's digital cloud training course.

for the solutions architect professional exam so this course was a lot more concise and taught me exactly what was needed for the exam I also had a really good amount of hands-on exercises as well so that I could follow along and gain a deeper knowledge about each of the services and each of the different sort of patterns that I'll see whether that be traditional three-tier architectures or serverless web applications so in terms of practice exams.

there's a whole bunch available for free that you can find but what I liked about using paid resources is that they have more detailed explanations so when you get a question wrong it just tells you why you got it wrong and why the correct answer is the correct one so that's something I appreciated the practice question set that I liked and I used was tutorial dojos practice exams

because they had in-depth explanations when it came to those questions and by doing a bunch of those I was able to get more familiar with the format of the questions and after doing that I was getting some friends who recommended me another set of practice exams.

so I bought those as well and did those were Neil Davis's digital cloud training practice exams and what I found good about these was that they reflected some of the real exam questions so when it came to me doing the real exam a lot of the questions seemed kind of you know I kind of feel like I've done it before because they were I think quite similar to some of the questions that Neil has put in his practice exams so doing both of those sets of exams from both tutorials dojo and digital cloud training really
set me up well when it came to setting my real exam.

now let's talk about my advice for actually preparing for the exam the resources are really good but when it comes down to dedicating time to the most thing important is building consistency and momentum when it comes to your study it's really hard when we're working full-time or we have other commitments to dedicate time consistently to our AWS journey and it can be quite tempting to just say okay on the weekends.

I'm just going to block out 10 hours and just going to study non-stop but what works best for me and what I recommend doing is to dedicate one to two hours on a weekday preparing for it and if you have time on the weekend you can do a couple of hours of study then and if not you can just take the weekend off because you've done some work already on the weekdays.

so that's something I'll recommend trying to build up consistency my second piece of advice is that practical experience is always more important than theoretical knowledge so make sure that you do all the hands-on exercises provided by the video courses rather than writing notes all the time trying to memorize every single line and every single feature of AWS services.

it's so much more important for you to recognize patterns in architecture and that way it's better for long-term retention as well and it's better for you when you want to become a
solutions architect in the future and honestly, I think my day-to-day work helped me with the solutions arctic professional exam because I was

for example, building a demo of a 3d web application and through that, I gained so much knowledge about how 3d web apps work, and when it came to preparing for the exam I found it so much easier to just understand the question of what it was asking as opposed to trying to remember what I had memorized from months ago okay finally let's talk about exam strategy on the day what can you do during those three hours to maximize your chances of passing the
exam.

so, first of all, I recommend something called reverse flagging so you know when you have a question that you're not sure about you're flagging it that way I think it doesn't work for me what
I did was I flagged the ones I was sure I got the answer to so if I'm certain that the answer is correct well I'm 90 sure that as is correct I'll flag it and that way I feel like every time I flag a question it builds up my confidence rather than every time I flag it I'm unsure and it just shows me that oh I need to check back on it later so by the end of the exam, I would have flags let's say 80 of the questions and I will look back at the unflagged ones to go back and you know to review the answer and try and read over the question again.

something else that I found to be quite useful was to close my eyes for 10 to 20 seconds every 10 to 20 minutes it sounds like it's a waste of time because you only have three hours for 75 questions but it helps for you to sort of regain focus and just prevent eye strain during the exam as well because three hours looking at a screen it's pretty tough so that's something I would recommend and finally, make sure you don't study on the day of the exam there's already so much that you've gained in the months or weeks leading up to the exam. "

I think on the day if you try and grab more the information might just overwhelm you when it comes to the actual exam and you want to be as relaxed as possible before the exam starts alright so this brings us to the end of this article if you found it useful, please give this article a like leave your comments and questions down below and I'll see you next time best of luck for your exam and bye for now

How to passed the AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam in 3 Weeks

Shivam Dubey — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 21:53:08 +0000

Hey everyone! 👋 In this article, I have written about how she passed the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam in 3 weeks. I also shared how she prepared for her exam and what resources she used. 👇

Please remember to like & share! 🙌 If you have any questions or suggestions, let me know in the comments below.

before we get started as an introduction about lucy she is currently a university student in Sydney Australia and she interned at aws so the reason I decided to write this article is that she had shared her personal experience with us about how she prepared for the exam what resources she used?

and what I wish I did differently so that you don't have to jump from website to website trying to figure out how to start your card learning journey🙂

she said " overall the exam is 90 minutes long with 65 multiple-choice questions covering a few main domains and you can choose to take it either at home or at a local testing center a question I get asked a lot by people is how much previous experience or
knowledge do I need to have if I want to take this exam as you can see here aws recommends having at least six months of experience
with the AWS cloud in any role and a basic understanding of its services with that being said though you don't necessarily have to have an i.t background or any experience with us.

don't let that stop you from preparing for the exam the AWS cloud practitioner exam is foundational level and there are so many online courses out there that start from the very basics the only thing you need to keep in mind though is that it may take a few more hours to understand more complex concepts if you haven't come across something similar before it took me around 15 hours of study to gain the confidence to sit the exam.

and here's how my time was broken down first, I set up an AWS account and played around with the AWS console this is a very important first step because even though you can probably get
away with not having any hands-on experience with using AWS before sending the exam you must interact and apply the concepts you learn and see how they're used the good thing is that most of these services that I use were either free or had a free tier.

so I didn't have to pay any additional charges during my learning experience so go ahead and try launching and terminating easy2 instances uploading a photo of your pet onto s3 and creating your vpc the second thing that I did was go through lectures on a udemy course I recommend looking into this particular course taught by an instructor called Stefan there were around 11 hours of video
content and this was where I spent most of my time studying
what I recommend doing is speeding up the theory lectures to 1.25
1.5 speed but taking your time when it comes to doing the hands-on
exercises.

so that you can consolidate your knowledge so I prefer watching videos over reading notes and documentation mainly because I find it to be more engaging and easier to absorb but there are many ebooks and were white papers out there that are great resources and I've linked everything into the description below finally what I did was I searched online and found a bunch of practice questions and went through as many of them as I could before the exam.

this was an effective way to identify gaps in my knowledge and some of the practice exam websites provided really good explanations on why the answer was correct or incorrect before making this video I revisited these websites and found the ones that reflected the real exam so definitely check it out at the end of this article below.

even though I didn't buy any practice exams for the cloud practitioner certification if I was to go back in time I would have bought this course from the tutorials dojo I used their practice questions to prepare for my solutions architect associate and developer associate certifications and it was super helpful and had very high-quality explanations.

my final piece of advice is to book your exam ahead of time
sometimes when we have so many things going on in our lives can be hard to prioritize doing certifications by booking your exam for next month even if you haven't started preparing for it
forces you to feel a sense of urgency so that you can remember to block out time for your cloud learning journey. "

if you're reading this article and have your exam coming up best of luck and let me know how you go if you're considering whether or not to get Aws certified I highly recommend looking into the AWS certification website and browsing through the different certifications to see which one is best for you

thanks so much for watching please give this article a like if you found it helpful and share it with your batchmates for more articles like this and the next article tips on how to pass different AWS certification exams stay tuned for more🤘