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

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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