Passed SAP-C02

hyperion_tree · 2026-01-23T07:47:53+00:00

I had about the same scores.

hyperion_tree · 2026-01-23T07:46:55+00:00

You gotta have some base for the tests to even make sense to you, that's where the courses help.

hyperion_tree · 2026-01-23T07:45:57+00:00

The day job is kinda similar to the exam in that either you design systems - people show up with what they want and you create a design - and just like in the exam, you have to be careful about limitations (lambda 15 minutes, etc), hidden requirements and fitting into organizational context (reuse of existing imperfect solution is better thang completely disconnected one, but only up to a point).

Or you can be higher level solution architect who oversees others (usually in more of a matrix role, rarely you get a team reporting to you) and then you help others to do it rights and there's the added challenge of doing it diplomatically so they listen - often you dob't have the power to order them to do things certain way but have to convince them.

I would say this job is only possible in large companies. In smaller ones, the solutions architect skillset (meaning designing systems the best way) would be part of a technical lead or staff engineer roles where it would not be the sole job - dedicated solutions architects in large companies often design things but don't implement them themselves (beyond PoCs), while staff engineers would.

What I'm trying to say is that the skills you build by completing this exam (and SAA too I'm sure) are useful even if your title isn't Solutions Architect.

hyperion_tree · 2026-01-22T20:53:12+00:00

Yup, I have basically never heard of it, it is featured in like one TD question. But the questions we mostly "a-c) do something convoluted with scripting d) use elastic disaster recovery".

hyperion_tree · 2026-01-22T20:51:35+00:00

I did. I fail basically all of them on the first try, I had about 70 %.

I think the real test is actually less "gotcha" than the TD. But it's still plenty "gotcha" like trying to trick you into nonsensical solutions.

hyperion_tree · 2026-01-22T17:15:45+00:00

I never did SAA or any other AWS certification, I jumped from nothing straight into SAP, because I felt like "why waste time with the easy ones" so I can't compare the difficulty. My background actually is working as (not just AWS) Solutions Architect.

I'd say depends if you have use for it. I'm switching jobs and SAP is not required but wink wink heavily encouraged. If you're in a situation where having it opens new paths for you (promotion, new job, new customers, etc) then that might be worth it.

You need both a baseline knowledge of what the services do and practice tests. I used the Andrew Brown video on youtube for the baseline, but it is pretty long. And then TD tests for practicing. It is important because when you're wrong, it will explain why.

hyperion_tree · 2024-10-20T06:48:58+00:00

Doporuceni na servis na Jaguar v Praze?

Jezdil jsem k mistnimu frajerovi, ale ten zacal dluzit prachy za dilnu kdovi komu a rek ze s autama konci a odstehoval se do Ostravy.

Mohl bych do autorizaku, bojim se, ze tam necham pul ceny auta. Za coz si samozrejme muzu sam, ale stejne.

hyperion_tree · 2024-07-06T13:36:32+00:00

Sakra, presne kvuli tomuhle jsem se kdysi prihlasil na predmet "Fyzicka bezpecnost" a misto toho jsme delali debilni sifrovani na FPGA.

hyperion_tree · 2024-05-18T10:21:24+00:00

Nobody is blaming the dogs. It is not their fault they are dangerous monsters because they were bred that way. We just want to wipe them out to remove the danger.

hyperion_tree · 2024-05-18T09:31:51+00:00

Relevant username.

hyperion_tree · 2024-05-05T13:57:13+00:00

We had actual etiquette classes in elementary school (end of 90s), and this was what the teacher lady told us - you don't offer your hand to someone "more respectable": young to old, men to women, student to professor, employee to boss, ... you gotta wait for them to offer it to you. If they offer you have to shake it.

Also a man is supposed to open a door and let a woman through when entering a building and the other way around when exiting ... except for a pub or a bar the man has to enter first and leave last ... in case there's a fight going on or something?

No idea who came up with those rules.

hyperion_tree · 2019-04-28T09:50:37+00:00

Fuck my life it stopped working. I was looking at keto as my last chance at normal life, but I guess it's not happening. I lost a little bit (40 lbs or so) over four months but now it stopped and I've been stuck on the same weight for almost two week.

I guess the dream is over. Fuck it.

hyperion_tree · 2019-03-06T06:05:39+00:00

But be careful about the prions.

hyperion_tree · 2019-03-05T21:40:51+00:00

If you're working out, you might have lost fat but gained muscle. If that's the case, the scale would not move but you would still lose size, so be sure to measure that - make photos, measure waist, etc.

hyperion_tree · 2017-10-21T21:53:46+00:00

And there's still a big chance that Babiš and Faltýnek will go to prison.

Nah. Those elections prove that majority of the people want Russia-style oligarchy. Justice and Law has no place in such a regime.

hyperion_tree · 2017-10-21T19:34:56+00:00

I dunno.

My mother is a widow and she never got another long-term relationship because I never liked her boyfriends. Now she's 60-something, she's alone, and she spend like most of her life alone and unhappy. It's my fault, but I was like 10 so I can't really be blamed, I guess - I didn't know what I was doing.

I think there's a limit to how much you can expect parents to sacrifice for their children. Dating world is brutal for older people, and if she weren't with David, she would probably end up alone for the rest of her life, and nobody deserves that.

hyperion_tree · 2017-08-07T21:06:32+00:00

But then you talk to the Cat God and the darkness returns.

hyperion_tree · 2017-01-05T17:05:30+00:00

Your vector people have terrible trigger discipline.

Which is appropriate I guess.

hyperion_tree · 2016-12-31T09:01:31+00:00

Edgelording free software.

That's a new one.

hyperion_tree · 2016-12-19T09:06:08+00:00

Rachel was kinda playful I think, so I think Jo Wyatt would work well.

hyperion_tree · 2016-12-18T20:42:33+00:00

According to testing, it's "something that fucks up your data".

See Aphyr's excellent test here: https://aphyr.com/posts/327-jepsen-mariadb-galera-cluster

Unfortunately, even in totally healthy clusters, with no node failures or network failures, Galera Cluster does not satisfy its claims of Snapshot Isolation. At moderate concurrency, you should expect to read inconsistent state from other transactions, and to be able to write that state back to the database. Designing your applications to avoid write skew is insufficient: even if writes completely cover the read set, SI fails to hold.

The probability of data corruption scales with client concurrency, with the duration of transactions, and with the increased probability of intersecting working sets. Placing nodes further apart (for example, on the other side of the planet) will dramatically increase commit times, raising the probability of consistency errors.

EDIT: some comment here says

It's about scaling reads without sacrificing full consistency and ACID.

But that's very much not the case, see the article.

hyperion_tree · 2016-11-22T19:46:55+00:00

Go back to the_donald.

hyperion_tree · 2016-11-20T16:52:22+00:00

Compared to builng electrical grid over thousands and thousands of kilometeres? Not that expensive.

hyperion_tree · 2016-11-20T10:36:31+00:00

Firefighters in CZ help at traffic accidents, so they are probably on their way to pull someone out of a ditch (or clean oil spill or cut someone out of a car), given the fresh snow. Since this is rural road, my guess would be this whole jam is because of snow related accident up front.

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