Link to the raw note I took while preparing to the exam
Just to give some background I am a software engineer with experience since 2017, even I worked as a Software Engineer I worked half of my experience with handling EC2 servers, containers on ECS etc. Having already earned three AWS certifications (Developer Associate, Solutions Architect Associate, and Cloud Practitioner) and the Kubernetes CKAD certification, I decided to pursue the AWS DevOps Professional certification to further advance my career. And here I wanted to share my Devops Certification journey.
I enrolled in Stephane Maarek’s Udemy course. Completed it within 2 weeks with daily study. I previously took Stephane’s SAA course so it helped me to forward faster. I took detailed notes white taking the course.
For the practice purchased exams from Tutorials Dojo and Stephane’s question sets. While working with sets I saw some deprecated services such as OpsWorks, CodeCommit etc. still in the questions so I suggest you to check deprecated services from AWS documentation. Also I realized some EKS topics not covered with Stephane’s course especially Pod Identity and IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA). Basically below is the strategy I followed
- Tackled 25 questions per session
- Reviewed incorrect answers immediately
- Note unfamiliar service features from the options
- After finishing each set, review above noted features from AWS Documentation and do small experiments on AWS console
- After finishing 3 sets, I sit with 75 questions in one sit and check how I able to solve previous 3 sets
After tackling about total over 200 questions I scheduled my exam. My exam scheduled at 13:30 and I checked in from 13:00. Check in process took pretty quick. Proctor tried to connect with voice connection with my MacBook but I could not hear the proctor’s voice so we decided to communicate with chat instead. Finished exam around 16:40 total spending 3:40 minutes and it was longest exam I ever had.
Surprisingly I received my exam result around 21:00 after 4 hours. I first received Credly badge email then got email from AWS telling congrats! That was a belief I did not wanted to sit that long exam again! The previous 2 certifications AWS Developer - Associate and AWS Cloud practitioner are extended by 3 years automatically. And AWS Solution Architect did not extended.
This is the experience I had, as summary it was pretty hard exam to prepare I spend my weeks to read paragraphs of questions, options it required pretty consistency and energy, I am pretty happy to pass!
Hopefully it helps whoever preparing for the exam. And stay focused!
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