Almost 3 years ago, I earned my AWS Solutions Architect As sociate certification. This past week, I took the exam again and passed in order to renew that certification for another 3 years. I drive about 90 minutes to my preferred Pearson VUE exam location, but this time I had to make the 90 minute drive back without knowing my exam outcome. Amazon now reviews things afterwords. I received no email yet, but within 24 hours my Exam History section on their certification portal was updated with my outcome. AWS
I did not study as much as I wanted or should have this year. I hadn’t intended to take the exam in October, but at the start of the month when I looked for times to book, my preferred venue had all sorts of times in October, and none at all in November or December. So, I snap booked as far out as I could, and got to work studying. Unfortunately as timing would go, Wild West Hackin’ Fest occurred which I not only attended virtually, but took some intense training in the first few days as well. I’ll come bac
Last go around, I used A Cloud Guru courses, Linux Academy courses (namely Adrian Cantrill’s excellent course), and practice exams from Jon Bonso (Tutorials Dojo). Since then, the landscape has changed as both Linux Academy and A Cloud Guru have been swallowed up by other players, and more honesty has been openly shared about the latter’s quality of offerings. (I really wasn’t terribly impressed 3 years ago, but ACG seemed to be everyone’s darling at the time.) This year I also have access to many Udemy off