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Passing AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam

Tomasz Łakomy on September 18, 2019

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

I create AWS education content and the reason I created my platform was just as Tomasz is saying something. Linux Academy and ACloudGuru combine can't help you pass the exam for someone who is green to AWS.

So this is what I have been working to solve by having more practical follow-alongs which use multiple services interconnected so the information sticks better.

Also just have more cheatsheets, quiz questions and flashcards on every part of the journey, and practice exam questions which are delivered in an exam simulator that helps you master before you move on.

I'm currently have been busy this month refreshing all my exam content. You won't find my core content on Udemy since I deplore Udemy's relationship with content creators.

Jon Bonso and Stephane Maarek are the new up and coming content creators for AWS Certification on Udemy, they're both really nice guys and really care about raising the bar so I would certainly recommend them.

I do still hear people failing with these fellows contents well and so I think it really comes down to packaging the content in a smart LMS that can give you the end-to-end coaching for the least inexperienced.

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Damian

As old school as it sounds, AWS Documentation is a great source of knowledge when learning for this certificate. Cloud Guru course is great as a scope overview, but then you should dive in to the documentation (start with services FAQ and then just follow the links or interesting topics).

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Lou (🚀 Open Up The Cloud ☁️)

100% underrated tip. The docs can be dense, but just sitting down with them is, taking notes etc is a great tip.

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Andres Leon

i seriously cracked up with "I personally had little to no questions about connecting on-premise datacenter to AWS - probably another marketing strategy. Why would you keep your data on your filthy on-premise when you could move everything to the cloud"
thanks for this. My advise to all is to take lots of practice exams and watch videos about meta-learning and hacking exams. We Humans are awful at creating randomness...

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Steven Torrence • Edited

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing. Also, I noticed that including this type of exam, AWS also has a bunch of other exams. I was reading up on them but is this particular exam a good starting point or should I look at something like the Cloud Practitioner exam?

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

I strongly recommend taking the CCP first so you have a soft introduction to Solution Architect Associate (SSA). CCP is the direct path to SSA.

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Steven Torrence

Awesome! Thanks for the direction.

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Joseph Whyle

Great post. Unfortunately failed my first exam, but your way of explaining it is really good. Coming into this as a person who is Green to AWS this is really helpful. About to resit the exam at the end of next week!!

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Thanks for sharing! This is something I've wanted to do for a long time, but never found the time to do. Maybe I will be able to follow your advice and take the exam soon :)

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Ola Popoola

This is absolutely helpful. Thank you Tom.

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Michael P.

Be sure to sign up for an AWS free tier account. That way you can get some hands on experience, especially if you're new to AWS.

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Theo Weller

The Half Life 3 Glacier comment got me. x_x