{"id":2450,"date":"2017-07-17T16:56:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T22:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2017-07-18T14:48:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T20:48:35","slug":"aws-questions-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2450","title":{"rendered":"AWS Questions: Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of times folks in my class are interested in pursuing AWS certifications<\/a>.\u00a0 The classes I teach are good at preparing you to be certified, but are definitely not <\/strong>certification classes.\u00a0 Here’s the answers I give to students interested in being certified:<\/p>\n

To get certified, you should review the page for the cert you want.\u00a0 Here’s the page for the AWS Architect – Associate<\/a> certification.<\/p>\n

When I got certified, I re-read the student guide from the class and made sure I understood everything covered in it.\u00a0 I didn’t just look at what the student guide had–I went to the AWS documentation as well.\u00a0 I also read some whitepapers as outlined in the exam guide (found on the certificate page linked above).\u00a0 I then took the sample questions (answers not provided, but you can find them via googling, anda again, on the certificate page) and then the practice exam (which costs $20, I believe, and gives you familiarity with the test format, but can only be taken once.).\u00a0 Those gave me feedback that I was on track to pass the exam.<\/p>\n

Note that the course is more hands on than the exam and doesn’t map strictly to the exam.\u00a0 However, AWS does a good job of explaining what they are looking for in the exam guide (on, you guessed it, the certificate page).<\/p>\n

Some of my students and colleagues have also had good luck with acloudguru, but I have no personal experience with that service.\u00a0 The company for which I work (but for which I do not speak) also offers a course that is designed to help folks pass certain certs<\/a>, but I have no experience with the course.<\/p>\n

Finally, it’s worth noting that all the certs I have taken have been proctored.\u00a0 Depending on where you live, you may have a number of test centers available, or one (or none).\u00a0 Find that out before hand!\u00a0 I also found that the exams I wanted were never available next day–I had to schedule them out a few weeks in advance.\u00a0 YMMV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of times folks in my class are interested in pursuing AWS certifications.\u00a0 The classes I teach are good at preparing you to be certified, but are definitely not certification […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}