How I Passed 2 AWS Exams in a Month 2020

[Music] hi guys welcome to my channel my name is maya alexis and i am a senior computer science major i have two aws certifications i have the cloud practitioner and the aws solutions architect associate so today i'm going to talk to you about how i obtain both of those as a college student before i get into the details of how to study for your aws certifications i'm going to tell you a story about why i'm making this video in the first place so when i first started to get familiar with aws i met this guy who was very knowledgeable about aws products and he assured me that i would be able to pass the cloud practitioner he kept saying that the cloud practitioner was just like a vocabulary test and it was extremely easy so i said oh okay well i'm gonna use my college experience and just like do a quick little breeze through study and then i'll just pass the test so i studied for about two days and then i decided to take the test when i took the test i failed after i failed i realized something that may be easy for someone who's been like a software engineer for years who's had years of aws experience may think it's easy but to me as a college student who had never experienced anything with aws that test was actually hard for me so that's why i'm making this video to try to give a perspective of a college student you may be wondering where do i even start first you need to decide do you want to take the cloud practitioner or go straight into the solutions architect associate or take both the aws cloud practitioner is foundational it's 100 90 minutes and 65 questions the solutions architect associate is the more intermediate level it's 150 130 minutes and 65 questions when it comes to taking either test make sure that you aren't studying the material to just memorize it you have to actually know the material to pass the test successfully one of the benefits of taking both tests is once you pass the cloud practitioner aws gives you discounts towards your next exam so you wouldn't pay the full 150 you would pay 75 for the solution architect or you could use it for another test and if you receive a passing grade for the solutions architect exam you get a 50 off discount towards another aws certification of your choice as a full disclosure when getting these certifications they are not a guarantee that you'll get a job these certifications require you to actually have personal project experience for example i made a simple static website using a couple of aws services after i got my certifications they're not a golden ticket you have to do more than just have the papers when i was studying for the aws cloud practitioner here are some of the topics i wish someone had warned me to pay attention to the details of the shared responsibility model aws support plans and the various services that each support plan provides ec2 services s3 im users roles and groups when i study for the aws cloud practitioner i only use two resources a udemy 6 practice test and aws white pages i will make sure to leave the link in the description so you know the exact test that i use in the aws white pages recommended for the cloud practitioner i only studied for the aws cloud practitioner for about a week and three days the udemy tests were the absolute best when it came to studying for the test i practiced two tests a day and would go deeply into the descriptions and explanations of all the answers even if they were right or wrong i initially scored low on all six tests but as i began to study the right and wrong answers and practicing the tests i didn't feel comfortable taking a test until i scored over 80s on all of the six practice tests after taking the solution architect associate i realized the test actually wasn't hard but the whole test is application based it's centered around availability cost efficiency fault tolerance and scalability if you don't know what those are and what services you have to use for each you won't do well on the test when studying for this test i had trouble telling the difference between some of the services because of their names so make sure you break down each service and really understand what the services do not just their names pay close attention to the storage options and prices auto scaling groups elastic load balancer knuckles and security groups and different types of encryption like server side and client-side encryption to study for this test i used udemy 6 practice test again but for solution architect associate it was 29.99 but it was worth it trust me they go into very very detailed explanations and they provide a link to their website called tutorial dojos where there's a lot of cheat sheets comparison sheets and just a lot of information for the aws services and breakdown of how they work and what they are i'm a very visual learner so this time i used some videos to kind of get a grasp of how to learn the different services and how to apply them i used the website called a cloud guru and they gave great explanations and visuals for the different services i studied for the aws solution architect associate for about less than three weeks i watched most of the videos in a cloud guru course board i practiced two tests a day reading all the explanations and answers right or wrong and i read through multiple cheat sheets and comparison sheets to kind of get a grasp of how the different services were similar and different from each other thank you for watching my video and i wish you the best on your test if you have any questions at all feel free to dm me or email me

Channel: Maya Alexus

Views: 38,086

Keywords: Cloud, AWS, College, Solutions Architect, Cloud Practitioner, BlackGirlsCode, Amazon

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Length: 7min 18sec (438 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 01 2020