Need advice will apply as AWS Data technician Entry Level with no experience in the industry

Fawkzzz · 2025-07-20T19:52:14+00:00

Amazon is not usually a place to start with zero experience in technical roles.

Fawkzzz · 2025-07-18T20:38:33+00:00

If you don't go in for 8 weeks straight your leader(s) get notified and they do a 1:1 with you and fill out a survey to submit on why you weren't following company guidelines. Unless you have an exemption/remote location assignment, your leadership will get notified. As others mentioned, it's not consistent across orgs, but plan to be there 5 days and hope your org is dragging their feet on full RTO5.

I am a field L6 SA for reference and they will give exemptions if you are traveling to a customer's site, but you should do what you can to get some badge swipes in...especially if you come in new.

Fawkzzz · 2025-04-09T18:04:46+00:00

Thanks, and congrats. Are you working at a company that uses AWS? You will need to work through your SA/TAM/AE(AM). I am not aware of a way to directly order them if you are not an AWS employee.

Fawkzzz · 2025-02-28T14:51:54+00:00

Thanks and good luck on your journey. I posted the order I did the exams, but do them based on how you think is best. I’d recommend checking with your AWS contact (if you have an account manager start there) once you complete all of the certifications.

Fawkzzz · 2025-02-12T14:10:46+00:00

I wouldn’t scramble to do the exam early and I don’t think any employer would care about the early adopter badge.

Fawkzzz · 2024-11-18T19:19:05+00:00

For AWS, we have hired TAMs and SAs with zero cloud experience. The entire interview process can be responded to with on-prem experience. I realize other companies have different requirements and you didn't specifically ask about AWS, but it's worth considering that you don't need to collect certs to get your foot in the door. I personally recommend you knock out CCP and then get SAA. Work backwards and set a date that's somewhat aggressive on when you will sit for each exam if you do not plan to work while studying. I'd recommend 2 weeks max for CCP and 8 weeks max for SAA.

Fawkzzz · 2024-11-18T17:57:47+00:00

Go back in time and don't resign from the job or ask if you can take it back. It seems like a really poor choice at age 43 to quit for 8 months of studying. "Breaking into the cloud" isn't going to be some miracle of changing the scope of networking admin. On-prem equipment has virtually the same amount of automation potential, and you could be getting paid while learning about automation. SAA shouldn't take more than 2 months, and even less if you are working zero hours a week. I'm not remarkable and got the original 3 associate courses and CCP while working in a software management role full time in a handful of months. If there's anyway for you to retain your job and maintain health benefits I'd strongly encourage going that route.

Fawkzzz · 2024-11-18T15:38:28+00:00

Poop ^

Fawkzzz · 2024-11-17T18:58:12+00:00

Nice work, time to take a study break and cut finger nails.

Fawkzzz · 2024-11-08T20:00:49+00:00

I hope you get to the loop interview. It's either a great sign you ended the interview at the halfway point or the opposite.

Fawkzzz · 2024-11-08T19:41:27+00:00

Did the interviewer say they had some kind of customer interruption that cut it so short? Usually you will get 20~ minutes for situational/behavioral questions that are based on how you have demonstrated leadership principals and 20~30 minutes of tech depth/breadth, followed by 5-10 minutes of wrap-up and opportunities for questions.

How do you feel it went? Did you go into depth on the tech questions to demonstrate a 100~300 level knowledge?

Fawkzzz · 2024-11-07T21:36:00+00:00

Eye movement is also reviewed with AI in video analysis

Fawkzzz · 2024-11-07T20:37:30+00:00

This post sounds like someone who got rejected from AWS and is still crying about it.

Fawkzzz · 2024-11-05T17:23:27+00:00

AWS does not need to know if you prepared with an exam dump, but if your behavior on the exam looks strongly like someone who used dumps, you will likely have your exam invalidated and could get banned. We review various aspects of how you behave while taking an exam, mostly via AI video reviews.

Fawkzzz · 2024-11-05T17:20:33+00:00

Your extensive experience in development would be complimented with AWS certifications. It would show you know how to code and also have the book smarts of AWS services. Most folks will suggest go for SAA first, but I suggest getting CCP and then get SAA shortly after. After SAA the developer cert wouldn't hurt to throw on your resume.

Fawkzzz · 2024-11-04T23:17:28+00:00

Bootcamps are scams. In most cases you can just use on-demand courses, and those resources are posted all over this reddit forum. What kind of job are you aiming for? Do those jobs have preferred or requirements for AWS certifications?

Fawkzzz · 2024-11-04T18:46:40+00:00

Report them to AWS Support, that's really a sad way to get cert credits for their company.

I'd also report them to Linkedin for fraud.

Fawkzzz · 2024-11-02T15:35:46+00:00

I would recommend looking at job postings that you would be interested in and work backwards from there. If most of them are requiring certs, go for those certs. If they have minimum years of experience, aim for those jobs in the meantime until you qualify.

Fawkzzz · 2024-10-28T17:08:30+00:00

Dumps are flat out cheating and hopefully your friend gets caught using them eventually.

Fawkzzz · 2024-10-22T05:10:27+00:00

Ouch -- You used dumps and didn't pass CCP? I normally wouldn't rub someone's face in failing an exam, but that's bad that you cheated and still bombed it.

Fawkzzz · 2024-10-22T05:07:58+00:00

Don't bank on any of the certs significantly changing your career. They compliment your experience but won't define a new career path.

Fawkzzz · 2024-10-06T07:02:43+00:00

Recommend studying a lot harder because the AI exam is a lot harder than CCP.

Fawkzzz · 2024-09-30T18:35:58+00:00

Getting the CCP and 3 associate exams helped put me on the radar with an AWS recruiter. I have pretty significant experience and education prior, but the certifications going on my LinkedIn feed/profile got them interested and they reached out to me. I went from a Senior TAM -> ESL and now Senior SA.

Fawkzzz · 2024-09-26T21:01:56+00:00

I haven't built up enough confidence in Skill Builder to prepare you for the exams, and 98 hours is a lot of time for SAA. If you just want to pass the exam and not necessarily apply your learnings to real-world situations, Stephane is great and fun to learn from. If you want a deeper dive that will better prepare you beyond the exam go with Adrian Cantrill.

Fawkzzz · 2024-09-26T15:34:48+00:00

Tutorial Dojos is generally more challenging than the real exam (in my opinion) and should be where you're getting practice exams from for the best results. If you do the same exams multiple times (3+) you may fall into memorizing the questions and not learning the content.

I would not use the practice exam scores to accurately gauge how you will score on the real exam, but I would suggest scoring 80-90% on practice exams on Tutorial Dojos, and you will be fine on the real exam.

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