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Solutions Architect – Associate course

Click to view course details at acloud.guru

Right after passing the Developer Associate exam, I dove into the Solutions Architect Associate course at acloud.guru. Click on the image above to view the course there. Due to the overlap in material I was able to go through this course more quickly – even though it has 22 hours of video which equates to roughly 22 days of work to get through. I also wanted to take the exam while the Developer content was still fresh on my mind.

The course outline can be seen here.

Here is my AWS Solutions Architect-Associate Certification.

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SysOps Administrator – Associate course

 

Click to view course details at acloud.guru

Two down, one to go. This is reportedly the big one – significantly harder than the Developer and Solutions Architect exams. So I took my time with this one. I also took the AWS practice exam as well as practice tests from Whizlabs.com. For more hands-on experience to reinforce what was covered in the course, I subscribed to a month of Qwiklabs.com where I earned over a dozen badges (a badge for each of a series of completed labs).

Ok, now I should be ready!

Off to take the AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate exam.

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QwikLabs

 

Click to view my progress at qwicklabs.com

Qwiklabs provides an environment to obtain hands-on cloud experience using  native console access. There are many dozens of labs that walk one through various common AWS and Google Cloud tasks. A “quest” is a series of labs that comprise a unit of study, such as deploying a Docker or Big Data application.

I subscribed for one month of unlimited access to supplement my courses taken at acloud.guru and build a little muscle-memory for common tasks, as well as gain exposure to AWS services only briefly discussed in a course. I also had time to take an intro to Google Cloud, which they happened to just add while I was there.