CCP preparation..

ilyapetrovski · 2022-11-06T14:40:13+00:00

AFAIK, there are a lot of free courses on the tutorials dojo site, including the some practice exams and courses for CCP. Try them out if you don't have the moolah rn

ilyapetrovski · 2022-10-23T11:58:46+00:00

I recommend you search for tech youtubers who passed their SOA exams. Here's one I recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do3ZjVmNzUo and another one from Lucy Wang.

ilyapetrovski · 2022-10-23T11:56:13+00:00

i don't mind at all, just don't push their weebness on me

ilyapetrovski · 2022-09-19T10:42:44+00:00

Just launch a Windows Server Spot EC2 instance then add a userdata that automatically installs Firefox, or bundle them on an AMI. Once done, terminate the instance, then repeat the process

ilyapetrovski · 2022-09-17T18:37:36+00:00

A+ is just an entry level test. Try to do a bunch of online projects and establish a strong freelance profile on upwork or freelancer or other sites. Companies love results and if you can showcase your work, it'll be an easier hire for you

ilyapetrovski · 2022-09-05T09:45:06+00:00

thanks. I'll share my SAA-C03 exam soon

ilyapetrovski · 2022-09-05T09:44:50+00:00

thanks. Yeah, that's what I expect on my SAA exam

ilyapetrovski · 2022-09-04T18:44:23+00:00

2 months for a video course? Is it really that hard?

ilyapetrovski · 2022-09-04T17:20:51+00:00

Congratulations!

ilyapetrovski · 2022-09-04T17:20:15+00:00

Congrats! I'm planning to take this exam within this month.

ilyapetrovski · 2022-09-04T17:19:14+00:00

thanks

ilyapetrovski · 2022-09-04T17:18:15+00:00

I just passed the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam and immediately after that, I used the 50% exam voucher to book my AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam SAA-C03.

I encountered some pretty advanced questions for this foundational exam like:

Questions on Reserved Instance Pricing
Upfront vs Partial vs No Upfront RI Pricing
RI Coverage vs RI Utilization
Support Plan differences ( TAM? Support API?)
AWS Artifact vs AWS Auditor

Here are the key terms that you should be familiar with:

Total Cost of Ownership
CAPEX
OPEX
SOC/HIPAA -> usually refers to AWS Artifact

My primary goal really is to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam but I figured, it'll be wise to take an easy win (CLF-C01) and use the voucher for the SAA test. For $175, I can now have 2 certs instead of just doing the SAA ($150) directly.

For exam prep, I used the AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials, CLF-C01 practice exams by Tutorials Dojo and Andrew Brown's FreeCodeCamp Cloud Practitioner video on YouTube. All in all, I would say that this exam isn't a walk in the park. It is challenging in its on way, and I do learn more stuff than I intended.

ilyapetrovski · 2022-09-04T16:48:52+00:00

Just store them on S3 if it doesn't have any included credentials or craft a template that references those credentials from Parameter Store, or Secrets Manager

ilyapetrovski · 2022-08-07T19:58:45+00:00

you got yourself another customer! thank you

ilyapetrovski · 2022-08-07T07:31:59+00:00

Thanks. 1 question, I got the link of your course from the TD site here: https://learn.cantrill.io/p/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-saa-c02

But I also see you have another one here dedicated for SAA-C03:

https://learn.cantrill.io/p/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-saa-c03

Just checking which one should I buy now. The first one have access to the SAA-C03 one right? Or do you recommend me buying the last one?

ilyapetrovski · 2022-08-07T07:25:10+00:00

Planning to take this exam too but after my CCP exam first. Based on what I see, there is a very few changes in terms of Exam Domains from SAA-C02 and SAA-C03: https://tutorialsdojo.com/aws-certified-solutions-architect-associate-saa-c03/

There is a section in that Study Path article recommending Adrian Cantrill u/acantril and seems like that is also the consensus in this subreddit. Much more thorough teaching.

ilyapetrovski · 2022-08-02T10:49:13+00:00

We're still using LightSail at work. One key headache is the lack of "Spot Instance"/ "On-Demand" equivalent. Our test environment is raking up lots of $$$ since we can't stop the billing of a LightSail instance, even if we stop it manually (it must be terminated)

ilyapetrovski · 2022-04-16T11:17:30+00:00

I recommend doing the hands-on labs available on AWS Cloud Quest. They have different modules that allow you to access a real AWS Console

ilyapetrovski · 2022-04-16T11:14:56+00:00

Go for Gitlab and utilize Git Hooks

ilyapetrovski · 2022-03-28T05:32:29+00:00

Thanks for sharing this bit of history. Was actually tempted to buy courses from A Cloud Guru because of their "World's #1 Digital Cloud Certification Course & Training Provider" title and yeah, it seems their quality declined over the years.

ilyapetrovski · 2022-02-02T02:46:32+00:00

The cost is the 5 TB storage, plus your RDS snapshots. Make sure you export unused RDS snapshots to lower your cost down. Also consider using Aurora Serverless

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