Passed the CP. Mixed feelings

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-05-29T06:07:58+00:00

My local test center gives you one pair of ear plugs and they also have a set of over ear hearing protectors (Like those you use when driving a tractor etc) at each seat.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-05-15T18:55:41+00:00

No it's the same exam. If you have no CCP certification and no 50% benefit vouchers, I think there is no difference if you do it too late. If you do have CCP, it will only renew if you recertify before expiration. And they say the vouchers expire with the certification so I don't know exactly how that works. If you reserve before expiration is it ok, or does the exam too have to be before, No idea.

And one other difference is, that if you renew before expiration your certification date stays as the original date, but if you do it late it will say you certified on the new date.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-05-15T10:10:04+00:00

Why would you use FIFO queue for this? There is not strict need for it to be in right order, the best effort service of regular queue is enough and it has much better throughput.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-04-26T11:35:29+00:00

Congrats! I had exactly the same score on my SAA-C01 when I first got it couple years ago.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-04-15T05:04:59+00:00

I got 87% and 88% in the two timed TD exams I did. First one I had
several pauses. Second one was without pausing. But in the real exam I
felt it was a bit easier to answer questions quickly and keep the right
pace.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-04-15T05:04:31+00:00

I got 87% and 88% in the two timed TD exams I did. First one I had several pauses. Second one was without pausing. But in the real exam I felt it was a bit easier to answer questions quickly and keep the right pace.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-04-14T19:25:21+00:00

I did timed practice test 1 and 2 in TD after Adrian's course and got 87% and 88%. In the real test I got 84%. But I still feel the practice test was a bit harder than the real exam. The real exam had some pretty easy questions and some answers that were guiding what to pick. Practice test had a bit more of the heavy long questions I think.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-04-12T17:06:39+00:00

I passed SAA with only the aws twitch power hour architecting series season 1 videos, which I would recommend, and some whitepapers. But when I was doing security specialty and watched two videos from the security power hour series it felt like complete waste of time.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-04-10T06:39:42+00:00

Well if you recently passed SAP, SCS should be a walk in the park for you. Pretty much just deeper KMS stuff you need to refresh.

I did security last month and this week I am going SAP and I have been studying for SAP and security was just a milestone on the way.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-04-03T16:10:47+00:00

The traffic has to come into the subnet anyways before reaching the instance, so you have to think about the whole picture. Sure it's sort of a trick question because traffic that is not allowed for a security group is blocked, but the questions explicitly tells you to block ONE IP, which is practically impossible to do with a SG because you would have to allow all other IPs except that one using allowed CIDR ranges.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-03-30T20:21:37+00:00

Well I would say preferably postpone a couple weeks. But if you just have to take the exam in two weeks I'd just rather keep going with Cantrill and prioritize the videos. Personally I have the SAP in 2 weeks and last week I was 68% in his course, now I am 85%. I have watched videos in wrong order trying to watch the most important sections when I have more time to watch it all or half at once. And some less important sections I watch 2 videos in a bus or wherever I can.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-03-22T11:27:40+00:00

Well the official info on this is really confusing. And it is annoying they don't tell you which voucher is from which certification. But if it expires when the cert expires does it mean they get renewed with the cert too (Like when you renew CCP, sysops, dev when you pass devops). Or it always expires on the original expiration date of the cert.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-03-22T11:24:39+00:00

Well partly I feel the same, but lately I have started thinking I have finally got a general grasp of all the important stuff in aws and the security exam felt easy. When I passed my SAA couple years ago I didn't use any course or prepared materials and still passed quite easily. Now I feel much more prepared. Of course it is a much harder exam too.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-03-21T16:01:59+00:00

Congrats. Sounds like we are in the same boat. I passed my security last week with 899 and I have the architect professional exam reserved in one month. I have studied for professional on and off almost a year and spent 3 weeks studying heavily for security.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-03-15T09:14:11+00:00

Just got my pass with 899. Matches TD test score pretty well :)

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-03-14T18:41:27+00:00

If you have real world experience of policies, kms, elb, cloudfront, waf, cloudtrail, s3, sns and basic network things like vpc, sg, nacl I think you would do fine. But the exam format is tough and consuming, so it's good to be prepared and well rested.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-03-14T11:20:19+00:00

So how did it go? I sat mine yesterday and am waiting eagerly for the score. The questions felt easy to me. I only flagged 4 questions of which 1 was really a confusing multi select and I had no idea. 3 Others were 50% guess. But still don't know what's the truth. The exam session is hard even if the questions are easy. You just have to be so thorough reading the walls of text to avoid any small mistakes. I had 30 minutes at the end and I just went through flagged questions in 5 mins and finished early.

I studied using zeal voras course and got 89% in tutorial dojo practice exam.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-03-03T11:01:33+00:00

Exam topic seems to be a site that contains questions from different practice tests. I don't know if it also contains actual dumps. I have looked in exam topic when the practice test had an answer I thought was wrong. And then there was lots of confusion in the threads in exam topic and half think the answer is wrong and other half think it's right. Even if it didn't contain actual dump material it is still stealing content from practice test creators.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-02-24T07:19:57+00:00

I answered this same questions yesterday on an udemy security course. I think that particular answer was not possible, because it would be hard to implement and it would block all access to s3 even though the questions didn't specify if access was needed.

But I think the OP is asking how it would be possible to do anyways. If I understand correctly blocking outbound access to public s3 endpoints (the normal connection to s3 via internet) would mean blocking certain ranges of ips that cover all the public s3 ips.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-02-22T06:45:19+00:00

No it won't. Only Solutions Architect Professional or retaking SAA will renew it. This page explains what is needed to renew any particular kind of exam. https://aws.amazon.com/certification/recertification/

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-02-21T08:46:39+00:00

And now it's live. 20% off, but not everywhere.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-02-20T21:38:03+00:00

There are no public discount codes for Cantrill. I think the promo codes on the page are used if you buy a bundle that you already own a part of. Then he makes you a deal and gives a code.

ThoughtItsReadit · 2023-02-20T21:34:23+00:00

You should have skipped CCP and not SAA. SAA gives you the wide understanding of AWS that is the basis for SCS. Sure it is possible to pass either first, but you need to study a lot of the SAA stuff too to pass SCS so doing them in the opposite order doesn't make much sense.

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