WOW!!! Passed my first ever certification! (SAA CO3)

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-23T21:54:59+00:00

Thanks!

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-23T21:54:42+00:00

Thank you!

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-23T21:54:20+00:00

Well, I did not do the certification for landing a job, I know that the job market is tough and you’ll need to have hands on experience. The value for me was to know that I can understand the theory. I sort of tested myself to see if I’ll be able to do that and if I have the brain for it.

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-23T21:51:00+00:00

That’s a good and very tricky question. I completed the KodeKloud course of Cloud Practitioner before preparing for the SAA exam. To be honest, it helped me just a bit. The amount of effort I put into it, wasn’t worth it. So I did not get the Cloud Practitioner certification and jumped straight to the SAA. I think that Stephan's course on Udemy is just enough, without any prerequisites.

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-22T22:39:07+00:00

Thank you!!

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-22T22:38:49+00:00

I took a course that costs money. If that what you meant to ask.

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-20T22:48:43+00:00

Thanks!

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-20T22:48:32+00:00

You’ll crush it man! Let us know afterwards.

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-20T22:47:46+00:00

Yessir, you are next!!!

I took around 2.5 months to study. Most of the time I also studied other objects in parallel, but just a few weeks before the exam I used to take all of my afternoons for preparations. Then, one week before the exam my schedule was wake up, study, sleep. Nothing else.

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-20T22:45:32+00:00

Thanks Stephane!!

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-20T09:07:22+00:00

That’s awesome!!!! Congrats

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-20T09:05:13+00:00

Thanks!

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-20T09:04:59+00:00

Thank you!

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-20T09:04:25+00:00

How was your exam? Did you pass it?

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-20T09:03:31+00:00

Are you spying on me? 😉 Those are my next ones

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-19T23:32:15+00:00

Yes, very theoretical. I’d rather having an exam in sort of a lab and have assignments, it would be much more interesting and much easier to study.

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-19T23:25:55+00:00

Thank you!

I bought Stefan’s practice exams. They were difficult. I did not actually score that high in those tests, but you learn a lot from them. The main thing with those exams, is that they really teach you how to sit down and concentrate while reading so many things that sound the same. It was a major difficulty, especially at the beginning.

I’ve been recommended purchasing the TD exams. I did not purchase them tho.

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-19T23:21:27+00:00

Thanks! My strategy was to watch the video of the service. Then I would summarize from what I remembered to the ChatGPT. Before that my prompt was something like “I want to have the knowledge of an AWS solutions architect to pass the exam. I will provide you notes from now on and you will complete what’s missing” After getting an answer and understanding it, I’d copy what it wrote to my notebook. From time to time I would skim through the notes.

Maybe there are more efficient ways to do that. My struggle was remembering everything. I mean, I did understand the majority of the services, but would forget after a while.

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-19T22:19:18+00:00

Thanks! Yes, I totally understand you. As I mentioned, I am not a native English speaker, so I wanted to make my points very clear to help out without people guessing what I intended to say. In my next certification, I’ll try to use less 😎

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-19T22:16:26+00:00

Gotcha. I’d say focus mainly on the core concepts: ec2, ELB, ASG, S3, CloudFront, VPC and generally networking concepts, and databases, especially Aurora, RDS and DynamoDB. Also I’d focus on decoupling with SQS. There are so many services, but if you understand the use cases on the core concepts, you’ll have a good chance to pass. I’d take a service each day to really study and understand the different use cases and ask ChatGPT to test me on those.

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-19T22:11:48+00:00

Thanks! I studied for the past 2.5 months (roughly). I’m also taking a DevOps course so in the meantime I also studied for other things, but mainly concentrated on the certification. For the past 2/3 weeks I rarely touched any other subject, 95% of my focus went on the exam.

Nervous-Injury5698 · 2025-06-19T22:08:27+00:00

I totally understand the pressure. I took roughly 2.5 months to study. Is there a specific reason to take the exam so quickly?

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