November 3, 2017

Tips for `AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate` Preparation

Self Evalution:

Take Diagnostic Test (60 questions 80 mins) in whizlabs practise-tests to guage your strength and weaknesses before you begin your preparation.
https://www.whizlabs.com/aws-solutions-architect-associate/practice-tests

If you have very limited knowledge wrt AWS, move on to #1 under Course Material.

Course Material

1. AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2017 from A Cloud Guru in www.udemy.com - Should be around $10.
Tips 1: This course starts from zero and covers upto 80% of the course, provided you read all the FAQs & white papers as advised by the instructor. Good to start with this and go for Linux Academy]
Tips 2: Complete all Labs & repeat VPC lab couple of times
Tips 3: Mobile app is also good, if you would want to listen on the move.
2. www.qwiklabs.com - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Badge (Optional)
3.AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate from Linux Academy 
Tips 1: Complete all labs from LA and read all the whitepapers referrred in downloads section. Subnetting & EC2 trouble shooting is well explained there.
Tips 2: Mobile app is also good if you would want to listen on the move, especially for the flash cards & final quiz.
4. Linux Academy - The Orion paper is a good reference material


Practise Tests

  1. Linux Academy Chapter Quiz - Final Quiz
  2. https://www.whizlabs.com/aws-solutions-architect-associate/practice-tests -> Costs around INR 899/- but around 20 questions will come from this whizlabs, so worth practising all 7 or 8 papers they have.

BLOGS


http://jayendrapatil.com/aws-solution-architect-associate-exam-learning-path/

FAQs

https://aws.amazon.com/faqs/
https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/faqs/
https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/faqs/
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/
https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/faqs/
http://aws.amazon.com/route53/faqs/
http://aws.amazon.com/lambda/faqs/
http://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/
http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/faqs/
https://aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/faqs/
https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/faqs/
http://docs.amazon.aws.com
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/faqs/
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-creating-snapshot.html



4 comments:

  1. Here's a couple of test banks from Simplilearn that would really help anyone who is taking their AWS exams. This simulates the actual certification exam.

    https://www.simplilearn.com/aws-solutions-architect-exam-free-practice-test

    https://www.simplilearn.com/aws-technical-essentials-free-practice-test

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  2. Nice post! very useful to the user. Keep update AWS Online Training

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  3. Excellent tips. It helped me while I'm preparing for AWS solution architect certification. Thanks a lot Bhuvana

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