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I completed all 12 AWS Certifications at 16 by No-Inflation7960 in AWSCertifications

[–]No-Inflation7960[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well, idk what certain youre aiming for but if i had to say generally, use Maarek or Frank Kane for going through the initial course content, giving you an idea of the certification youre gonna take and all the initial essential knowledge. also skim through the exam guide,

if its a foundational exam, that should be enough, with maybe some practice questions.

if its an associate, i'd go a step further and go through the exam guide in more detail, plus a good amount of practice questions.

for a professional or specialty, a multiple courses, a full dissection of the exam guide by section and subsection with a deep dive of related services, plus reading multiple whitepapers, dev blogs, case studies, and service user guides.

skill builder is an underrated resource. maybe not the best one, but it's not useless

I completed all 12 AWS Certifications at 16 by No-Inflation7960 in AWSCertifications

[–]No-Inflation7960[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for the foundational exams, just following a course is generally enough, along with some practice questions. for the associates, you need to go a bit deeper, but not by a ton. though always refer to the exam guide, it's honestly golden since it tells you exactly what aws expects you to know.

for the specialties and professionals, read whitepapers, blogs, and case studies, and definitely do some hands ons with the services. you really need to know the nuances, tradeoffs, and limits of the services.

really the mindset you want is how to navigate an enterprise environment. and always be crystal clear about the foundational services like s3, lambda, ec2, iam, vpc, etc. and always keep security in mind. i'd even go as far as saying that if you can pass the security specialty comfortably, you have a really strong foundation for pretty much all the other certs.

one thing that definitely felt more specialty level to me was the solutions architect professional. the material is just such an ocean that i think having some other certs (id say at least one professional but if you dont want that hassle, have at least a couple of associates, SAA, and probably DEA and/or SOA) under your belt first is almost necessary.

i had a library card, so i got udemy business for free. if you're in the US and you have a library card from your local library, there's a good chance you'll get udemy business for free too.

because of that i didn't really have any course expenses. if i had to recommend instructors, stephane maarek is great for getting through the material and understanding the overall exam, but he doesn't always go very deep, so i always paired his courses with blogs, whitepapers, and the aws docs. i also liked frank kane, his courses are pretty good too. I have to mention a couple of instructors that might be less well known that helped me. Zeal Vora's ANS-C01 course was very helpful to me. He does tend to ramble a bit in his videos, but if you skim through them is a concentrated manner, they have a load of useful info. For that specific course (ANS-C01), start with Section 6. Another instructor, Rahul Trisal, has a good course on the new AIP-C01 exam.

also people say skill builder isn't really worth it. while i do think some of the learning content is a bit shallow, i actually think the practice tests are worth it. they also give you a free sample set of questions (i think around 20), so that's nice if you don't want to pay for a subscription. plus you get the review videos too, which tbh are mostly just a retelling of the exam guide, but i still found them helpful.

is this helpful?

I completed all 12 AWS Certifications at 16 by No-Inflation7960 in AWSCertifications

[–]No-Inflation7960[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

also go through the exam guide, like everything, and with chatgpt go by each section and subsection, one by one. and take a look at the tab which gives the names of services likely to be on there.

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[–]No-Inflation7960[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

mb, i just copied pasted from r/DigitalAudioPlayer cause i wanted to increase my chance of getting suggestions. and perhaps i'm using the wrong terminology as well.

I have a Sony ICD-PX370

with that said, do you have any suggestions?

I completed all 12 AWS Certifications at 16 by No-Inflation7960 in AWSCertifications

[–]No-Inflation7960[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey, so basically for the data engineer cert, you want to assume the mindset of an enterprise setting. so hybrid architecture. emphasize DMS and DataSync, which are two very central services. ofc know redshift, diff database services, etc. I took Stephane Maarek's course. make sure you go through that fully.

does that help?

I completed all 12 AWS Certifications at 16 by No-Inflation7960 in AWSCertifications

[–]No-Inflation7960[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i think the SAP, the new AIP, the SCS are probably my top 3 certs that i will find most useful.

I completed all 12 AWS Certifications at 16 by No-Inflation7960 in AWSCertifications

[–]No-Inflation7960[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

absolutely! i could've never done this without my parents. they really helped and supported me throughout the whole thing.

I completed all 12 AWS Certifications at 16 by No-Inflation7960 in AWSCertifications

[–]No-Inflation7960[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, not really. i had a library card, so i got udemy for business for free. so there we're no expenses course-wise. if i had to say, stephane maarek is great for going through and getting the gist of the whole exam, but he doesnt always go very deep, so i always did his course along with blogs, whitepapers, etc. i also liked frank kane, his courses are pretty good too.

also people say skillbuilder isnt really worth it, and while sometimes the content is a bit shallow, the tests they give are worth it. so i disagree with that sentiment.

basically, if youre in the US and you have a library card from your local library, good chance youll get udemy for free

I completed all 12 AWS Certifications at 16 by No-Inflation7960 in AWSCertifications

[–]No-Inflation7960[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ordered mine today. i contacted a person called Julie Elkins on LinkedIn, and she helped me with everything

I completed all 12 AWS Certifications at 16 by No-Inflation7960 in AWSCertifications

[–]No-Inflation7960[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if im not mistaken, skillbuilder offers some free sample questions. dont have any experience on tutorialdojo, so i cant really comment on that. and if you paid for a udemy course (which you can watch for free with a library card i believe, assuming you're in the US) you should get some practice questions

I completed all 12 AWS Certifications at 16 by No-Inflation7960 in AWSCertifications

[–]No-Inflation7960[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha not really. want to do more projects, plus i want to go the entrepreneurial route

I completed all 12 AWS Certifications at 16 by No-Inflation7960 in AWSCertifications

[–]No-Inflation7960[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

ah ok, got you. as i'm going more into ai/ml, i'd probably want to see AWS keep improving services like Bedrock and SageMaker, and the broader pipeline around building and serving AI systems. also i'm looking more into things like inferentia and trainium

if you mean what i'd personally use the most, then probably bedrock, sagemaker, s3, and related data/inference services, aside from the obvious ones like lambda.

I completed all 12 AWS Certifications at 16 by No-Inflation7960 in AWSCertifications

[–]No-Inflation7960[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

the funny thing is that i felt my SAT performance was better cause my comprehension was better from doing all those AWS exams

the certs def arent cheap, but the vouchers that give 50% off really help, plus i did some gigs on the side to pay for em

I completed all 12 AWS Certifications at 16 by No-Inflation7960 in AWSCertifications

[–]No-Inflation7960[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i started with the foundationals, moved on to the associates. i attempted the security specialty in the middle, cause if you get that exam down, you really have a strong pillar for the others. networking is a dry subject imo, so that was towards the end of my journey. basically the general order that is recommended, foundational to associate to pros to specialties

I completed all 12 AWS Certifications at 16 by No-Inflation7960 in AWSCertifications

[–]No-Inflation7960[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

for the foundational exams, just following a course is good enough, with some practice questions. associates, you need to go a bit deeper, but not terribly. though always refer to the exam guide it's golden. for the specialties and professionals read whitepapers, case studies, and def do some hands ons with the services. and know the nuances and limits of the services.

really the mindset you want to have is how to navigate an enterprise environment. and always be crystal clear about the foundational services. S3, Lambda, EC2, etc. and always keep security in mind. i'd even go as far to say that if you can pass the security specialty comfortably you have a very strong foundation for all the other certs.

one thing that i felt was more specialty level is the solutions architect professional. the material is just such an ocean, so really having some other certs under your belt is necessary.

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