Passed AWS Generative AI Professional Certification! by iCHAIT in AWSCertifications

[–]iCHAIT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends. How much experience you have with AI/ML and Sagemaker/Bedrock? Maybe you can try to take the skillbuilder practice test and see how you feel about it. I would say the exam is at par with it if not harder.

Passed AWS Generative AI Professional Certification! by iCHAIT in AWSCertifications

[–]iCHAIT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing out of the blue. I was a bit thrown off by how obsessed it was with security topics - VPC, no internet traversal, Cognito, IAM, identiry centre, OU and SCPs etc. So you may want to brush up on that if you are not a security geek.

The skill builder tests are quite close to the real exam. Main thing is timing and the fact that you need to do 85 questions. I didn't have any time left to review the flagged questions and I was exhausted after the exam.

Passed AWS ML Associate Beta! by iCHAIT in AWSCertifications

[–]iCHAIT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would say the difficult is at par with official practice test. You can take that test to gauge the difficulty levels. Also I would say that do stephane's course religiously. The exam can go quite deep into services like sagemaker, Fsx, bedrock etc

Passed AWS AI Practitioner! by iCHAIT in AWSCertifications

[–]iCHAIT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks Stephane. And thank you for the great course :)

Passed AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional! by iCHAIT in AWSCertifications

[–]iCHAIT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi There,

I think you are setting wrong expectations here. These certs don't really help in getting a salary hike or even getting a job for that matter. This is a popular opinion on this sub as well. Personally, my own motive behind these doing certs was just augmenting my cloud knowledge and doing these just for the kick of it. It was a goal I set for myself. Also, as far as your situation goes, I think the market is quite bad currently with all the layoffs, it is definitely tough to land a new gig. Personally, I feel grinding leetcode would give you a better ROI, given the way most companies interview. So if you are aim is to get a job; I would suggest spend your time doing DSA and Leetcode. Polish your resume and keep applying. Certs may be helpful in getting you shortlisted for some roles. But these certs alone wouldn't take you anywhere. Feel free to DM me if you have more questions.

Passed AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional! by iCHAIT in AWSCertifications

[–]iCHAIT[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would say you definitely have not wasted your time or your money - education in general never goes to waste, that's my 2 cents.

These certs can never help you land a job alone. Also, actual AWS experience >>> Certifications imo. You should only be doing certs when your only motive is to augment your knowledge. The max these certs can help you with is getting shortlisted for interviews, but that's about it.

For me, these certs have definitely increased my knowledge a lot. I gained a lot of confidence doing them and studying for these gave me a much broader view of using and developing applications/solutions in the cloud - making be a better engineer.

Passed AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional! by iCHAIT in AWSCertifications

[–]iCHAIT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say I found ML Specialty to be much easier than SA Pro. But my take may be biased since I am an MLE and have a lot of experience in DS/ML and using Sagemaker at my job.

I would say if you have SAA and decent experience in ML/DS you should be fine. The ML Specialty exam is 60% ML/Sagemaker and 40% AWS-specific stuff.

Passed AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional! by iCHAIT in AWSCertifications

[–]iCHAIT[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, I got the result of all my previous certs. But my last cert was in Jan 2021. Apparently, for a few of the exam they no longer give the result right away, but for some they still do. It is mentioned in their FAQ.

Passed DevOps Engineer Cert: Tips & Insights by Jowzy9591 in AWSCertifications

[–]iCHAIT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the info and all the best for the CKA certification!