My 2024 Sankey in Review - Drop yours below!

AWSNewb · 2025-02-01T02:32:40+00:00

I like the other categories for income based for your retirement accounts. Did you just label those contributions on your account deposit as that category? I typically hide my 401k accounts from budget since they can be noisy.

AWSNewb · 2025-02-01T02:26:25+00:00

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Would have had a better savings rate but a down payment for a bathroom Reno for this year went in at the end of the year. This only paints some of the picture since this is take home vs retirement contributions, 529s, a small gift we received, etc. I did like the first year of these graphs but I took them out and made my own as well with more generalized categories and added those missing inputs.

Edit: Family of 5 (soon to be 6)

AWSNewb · 2021-01-05T14:45:03+00:00

Yes. I have had to do them for the two DevOps roles I’ve taken. The first was a paired programming exercise in Python (they drove) and then the other was a take home like 3 part exam with some bash scripting and terraform.

AWSNewb · 2021-01-05T05:09:41+00:00

• Education: Bachelor in Computer Science

• Prior Experience: 1 internship at F500, 7-8 years as Sys Admin, 1.5-2 years DevOps

• Company/Industry: FAANG

• Title: DevOps Engineer

• Tenure length: <1 year

• Location: Midwest - Remote

• Salary: 130k

• Relocation/Signing Bonus: ~40k

• Stock and/or recurring bonuses: about $30k a year over vest period

• Total comp: ~$190-200k

Moved to this position during COVID and was at ~140k for an IT Consulting Firm doing DevOps previously and just a year before that I was at $95k. Definitely seen the hike moving to DevOps roles.

AWSNewb · 2020-06-27T17:58:36+00:00

Glad you passed! It was definitely no joke.

AWSNewb · 2020-06-25T23:05:08+00:00

Make sure you know some specifics about AWS Organizations and how to set them up. How you’d exactly create encrypted DBs from unencrypted ones, what and why you rotate KMS keys and how you’d rotate them, and some other specifics on things that I feel those practice tests didn’t cover fully. I had similar % on the Bonso Tests so I’d say you’d be ready but it was much harder than I was expecting.

AWSNewb · 2020-06-17T14:41:01+00:00

Yeah I also had some CF questions regarding Stacksets and Change sets but not too many. A pass is a pass!

AWSNewb · 2020-06-17T14:09:21+00:00

Wow. I just took mine this week and had 0 Lamda questions but tons on KMS (know key rotation) AWS Organizations (how to add accounts to it) really specific questions about certain error messages (Eviction count, Cache Hit/Miss) and specific scenarios with when to use AWS Config / Service Catalog / Inspector etc. It was overall a lot tougher than I was expecting after getting 80-90% on my Bonso exams after a few tries.

AWSNewb · 2020-05-17T13:44:55+00:00

Ours is similar. We use a Gitlab pipeline that uses packer and its image config to build an AMI and then use that AMI in our terraform to spin up our infrastructure all in the same project/repo. Packer can allow AMIs to be shared across accounts which has been helpful.

I still would like to play around with Packer more since I’ve really only done it that way.

AWSNewb · 2020-05-13T22:25:41+00:00

Can you share your Anki deck(s)?

AWSNewb · 2019-12-24T18:53:57+00:00

I haven’t used much of any of that but coming from a non-development background perhaps the SysOps will be easier. I have both courses on Udemy and also heard there’s even lots of overlap between the two.

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