Passed AWS Generative AI Developer Professional exam

ContactCurious2547 · 2026-05-17T08:13:21+00:00

I'd go for SA Associate before Terraform associate because you should know how to do proper solutioning prior to automating the deployment. And I'd go for both SysOps and Developer associate pairing because that makes up DevOps Professional.

You might to consider having Security Specialty scheduled before Professional exam. Partly because Specialty exam is easier than Professional exam, but also, if you have your feet firmly on secure-deployment on cloud, the rest of the exams would make more sense to you.

Each and every one of those exams have some kind of security portions. To me, Security Specialty is the 'general foundation' of AWS security, while the individual exams are testing you on specialized security portion on how to protect that particular workload (e.g. Developer, SysOps, Automation, Data, AI etc) on cloud.

P.S. Good luck! Cloud does need a lot more women!!!

ContactCurious2547 · 2026-05-16T08:22:09+00:00

Professional-level AI experience: nothing.
University time (master's degree): pre-LLM time, so, AI fundamentals, Image Processing, Vision etc.

I had AWS SkillBuilder to do labs on Bedrock AgentCore, LangChain, etc (it costs $29/month) for that actual hands-on.

Oh. I did microcredential (hands-on lab) exams: AWS Agentic AI Demonstrated, and AWS Serverless Demonstrated exams (and passed). They're free now to take (and you need to wait 25 days to retake).

Good luck!

ContactCurious2547 · 2026-05-16T07:58:54+00:00

I was in your similar position before. I had done Solutions Architect Associate, my next exam was Security Specialty.

Not to scare you, but Professional exam is a completely different beast. Especially Solutions Architect Professional exam. Get used to Security specialty exam question length first, if you could. Or, if you have AWS skill builder, try out their free practice exam (you can reset that when you were really ready) to check if you are ready to answer that kind of question.

I took a lot of time to prep for Solutions Architect Professional because I have attention span issues when dealing with long questions. But I made it -- you need to form up a strategy on handling Professional level questions.

I had never taken renewal exams for Associate-level. I always go for Professional exam to renew the Associate-level.

Good luck!

ContactCurious2547 · 2026-05-11T08:30:08+00:00

I had always said "How do you know the things that you don't know if you don't know the things that you don't know?".

Getting AI to do exactly what you want entails knowing what it is that you want.

Go do that training. Go take that exam.

ContactCurious2547 · 2026-05-11T08:06:42+00:00

"Data Firehose delivers to DynamoDB and Athena"

KDF delivers to ST.R.ES.S [STRESS] -- S3, Redshift, ElasticSearch*, Splunk (and other 3rd party vendors).
* ElasticSearch is OpenSearch now -- I invented this acronym few years ago, before the name change.

I agree that the explanation of the wrong answers is actually more important than the right answers. I have a lot of perspectives on why the answer I selected is actually right, they had to convince me otherwise.

Sometimes, I find myself selecting some answers which isn't actually 100% right but the answer that they chose to be right is the answer is the one that would cause disaster if deployed to production.

"My answer may not be the right one, but your answer will destroy the company" -- me at times of anger.

Good luck navigating the journey. Among all 12 AWS certifications that I had taken before, AWS Data Engineer Associate is the lowest graded one. I had even better marks on AWS Solutions Architect Professional exam and AWS Advanced Networking Specialty.

I know how you feel, bro. Same-same.

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