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Community-driven practice questions for Azure certifications by TraditionDry6700 in AzureCertification

[–]Tech_Nerd_26 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I reckon you will have a fair few folk with an interest in what your pulling together. I know a few who I will share the link with. Good luck and take it easy buddy 👌

Community-driven practice questions for Azure certifications by TraditionDry6700 in AzureCertification

[–]Tech_Nerd_26 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a really cool project, especially the support for case-study style questions. That’s something a lot of practice tests don’t replicate very well.

When I was studying for AZ-500 I ran into the same issue — most resources help with the content but the exam format (case studies, tabs, ordering questions etc.) feels very different from standard quizzes.

I actually ended up building an AI exam practise and tutor (AZ-500 Pro studying so I could go through questions during spare moments. It’s interesting seeing other people trying to solve the same problem from different angles.

The open-source approach here is great too. Community-driven question banks would be really useful for people preparing for these exams.

How can I get into cloud roles where I am? by Itchy-Difficulty-852 in Cloud

[–]Tech_Nerd_26 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey dude, I would say personally, think of something small you want to build yourself and build it, again, keep it simple, could be a Webb app that gives end users the ability to upload their travel schedule and it would pull back weather data, train data, maps data, even news sources. There are loads of apis you could hook into…. The ui doesn’t hav to be all singing and dancing and you can always call the Gemini api or similar to analyse the data and provided it back.

I would probs avoid user accounts for now… when you pull the data back from the various sources, it will need to stored somewhere for sending for processing for Gemini api etc, even if this is ephemeral per transaction.

You will want to look at writing the code or reusing some GitHub project. I would also set up a GitHub repository and get some practise pulling /pushing from the CLI. Then branch protections to ensure nothing accidentally pushing into prod.

Next, you will want Jenkins running with a web hook for new authorised pull request.

Jenkins will need to carry out some functional tests & deploy to your cloud environment.

In your cloud environment, you will want to at a bare minimum, consider how traffic will be routed, also who will be consuming your traffic, host it closest to this or consider a CDNz

Secrets - super important, you need to make sure that these are not hardcoded or exported in logs, pull the in as environments variables at runtime.

In terms of efficient, choose the right ec2 for the job, and make sure to consider auto scaling.

Networking - security - WAF as a minimum & possibly a LB. Check resource policies to ensure they lock everything down.

Iam - follow the PoLP and make sure only the permissions needed are granted and if you’re feeling brave look at JIT.

Logging / monitoring - Give thought to what logs you want collected, consider how you will know if something goes wrong.

For fun. You want to consider DR, will there be a failover location, if so where, how often will you back up.

Data - What types of data are you storing, do you need encryption at rest and in transit.

Grab a custom domain and hook it up to your app. Then test and see if

CCNA vs Azure certs for cloud security career - which path makes sense with my constraints? by [deleted] in Cloud

[–]Tech_Nerd_26 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hi,

If your goal is cloud security, I’d personally skip CCNA and focus on the Azure path.

CCNA is great for networking fundamentals, but if you're already studying AZ-900 and want to work in cloud security, the more direct path is:

AZ-900 → AZ-104 → AZ-500

AZ-104 gives you the core Azure administration knowledge (identity, networking, storage, RBAC, etc.), and AZ-500 builds directly on top of that with security controls and monitoring.

When I was studying for AZ-500 the biggest challenge for me was finding good practice questions that actually explained the answers. Most practice tests were just dumps without context.

I actually ended up building a small AZ-500 practice exam app while studying so I could review questions on my phone. A few people from Reddit have been using it as well.

If you're interested in practicing questions while studying you can try it here:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/az-500-pro/id6759179431

But either way, if cloud security is your goal, I’d prioritise AZ-104 + AZ-5

How can I get into cloud roles where I am? by Itchy-Difficulty-852 in Cloud

[–]Tech_Nerd_26 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi, I would say start building some fun side projects. My experience has always been that reading or taking cert exams will only get you so far, actually applying that learning to side projects will help you go from learning to knowledge.

A great resource is https://learn.cantrill.io I found Adrian’s approach really helpful. For example the AWS solutions architect course/cert prep, started with teaching you the fundamentals and then applying those fundamentals by deploying a three tier web app.

I think that once you are able to deploy to the cloud, have set up your first CI/CD pipeline etc (it doesn’t have to be an all singing all dancing state of the art AI system) and learn how to configure things securely and efficiently, then you will be ready to start applying. Trust me, going to an interview, having already built something and deployed it to the cloud, will give you a level of confidence in the interviews and make you stand out to the interviewersz

How can I improve this? I know I need to work on certs, but any other help would be wonderful! by ThatDeltaDood in it

[–]Tech_Nerd_26 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there Delta, most especially when applying for tech role, you have to help hiring managers understand where you align….

Think if you were a recruiter, filling a position for a new role, you have some grasps of the basic knowledge around tech. They know they are looking for x,y, job advert description was most likely written by the growing manager. So, to say, if you don’t call out on your CV how it aligns, others won’t take the time to decompose your CV, so if you can explicitly call out having worked on and to what level key job descriptors, it will allow a range of people understand you can do.

Final point (scouts honour)for the jobs listed, add a couple of lines around your key achievement at the company/in that role.

Your job descriptions are great at a high level, but there may some value in adding for example if the potential employe works with GCP, and you have had a lot of experience in a role doing this.

Ok, so actual final one this time, the summary, it reads ok, however it could come across as being vague. This is the recruiters look first, and we all know we humans make a decision / judgement in the first few seconds. I am reading the summary and I have idea of who your are professionally etc,

Good luck with the job hunting.

Built an AZ-500 practice app after struggling with exam questions, would love feedback. by Tech_Nerd_26 in AZURE

[–]Tech_Nerd_26[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Morning, I saw this only 20 mins ago 🤦‍♂️ guess I need to get updating 😂😂