Be Noticed as a Certified Person | Part 2
As we mentioned in the previous article “Be Noticed as a Certified Person | Part 1”, Becoming certified is the credibility you need to grow with your career and keep going with the tech trends.
In this Part, we will walk through my journey of getting 3 of the top 2020 Cloud Certifications with less than 1 year, How to prepare your self to pass the exams with some tips and tricks!
General Certification Prerequisites
Before starting your Certifications path, There are some skills you need to consider:
- At least one year of hands-on experience working in one of the cloud providers to solve problems and implement solutions.
- Able to demonstrate your ability to design, manage, and implement applications using tools and services on the Cloud platform.
- Understanding and analyzing scenario-based questions which are the theme of the exams.
AWS Certifications | The Beginning
After 1 year of starting my career as a Cloud Solution Architect and DevOps Engineer, I took the decision to start seeking AWS certifications to evaluate my knowledge and experience, since the company I worked for was using AWS as a Cloud provider, and my whole experience was with AWS.
2 months later, I successfully finished all AWS Associate level certificates.
Do not distract yourself!
Always have one source of truth while you are preparing.
I recommend you to get your preparation from A cloud guru, Their instructors are AWS community champions, and their courses will provide you a full theoretical knowledge for the certificates needs with practice exams.
You can check A Cloud Guru Discussion Forums; which provides a hive of activity, full of engineers helping each other learn Cloud and prepare for exams.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role and have one or more years of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS.
- Solutions Architect Associate Course.
- Review the exam guide.
- Answer the sample questions.
- A Cloud Guru — Discussion Forums.
AWS Certified Developer
Intended for individuals who perform a development role and have one or more years of hands-on experience developing and maintaining an AWS-based application.
- Developer Associate Course.
- Review the exam guide.
- Answer the sample questions.
- A Cloud Guru — Discussion Forums.
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Intended for systems administrators in a systems operations role with at least one year of experience in deployment, management, and operations on AWS.
- SysOps Administrator Course.
- Review the exam guide.
- Answer the sample questions.
- A Cloud Guru — Discussion Forums.
Need to check before AWS exams
- Finish the final practice exam with A cloud guru course.
- Review the whitepaper & AWS Well-Architected.
- Read the AWS certification FAQs.
AWS, What’s Next?
After you finish the Associate level certifications, you can start preparing for the professional level or even get deeper with one of the specialty paths based on your experience and need. If you still have no experience, remember that you can start with the Foundational-level Certification.
To be continued….
In the last part, We will continue talking about the remaining 3 certifications of the top 2020 Cloud Certifications with less than 1 year, How to prepare yourself to pass the exams with some tips and tricks!
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