Learning DevOps - day 4 to 7 - How I passed 3 AWS exams in 5 days

Hi all. The good news is that I passed the SysOps Exam, and two days later I passed the developer exam and one day later the Solution Architect. Three exams in 5 days! I am happy and tired.

You have two ways of approaching the exam:

1. You want to learn the technology and pass the exam
2. You want to pass the exam

To learn the technology, use:

• acloudguru training videos
• Read the AWS documentation with particular attention to the FAQ
• AWS official videos
• Try, try and try AWS

To pass the exams

The questions asked during the exam are mostly "factual", this means that it's stuff you need to learn by heart, like "How many table are you allowed to have in a single DynamoDB instance". So my advice is simple: DO AS MANY MOCK TEST AS YOU CAN FIND ONLINE.

Good places are:

• Flash cards at Cram.com
• Exams emulation at Whizlabs

Go for it!!!

Learning DevOps - day 2 - Amazon certification

This is day 2 of me trying to get back in technical shape after some years focusing more on sales, people and money. The first article is available here.

If I'm to learn something, better get a piece of paper in the process. So I decided to get the Amazon certifiations.

Current certifications (as of 2nd of September 2017)

I plan to have as many as possible and this is my choosen order of obtention

1. Certified SysOps Admin Associate - Useful links
2. Certified Solution architect Associate - Useful links
3. Certified Developer Associate - Useful links
4. Certified DevOps Eng Pro - Useful links
5. Certified Solution architect Pro - Useful links

In particular I find that the Self Preparation Labs are cool (at least the one I did) 

In the lab I'm following the SysOps Administrator - Associate - Full time estimate of 6 hours

The lab costs lots of money so I moved to Udemy which was a $15 for the full 9.5h lessons.

I've schedule my exam for the 12th of September 2017. Wish me luck.