Thank you for the informative post Matt. I am going through the Cloud Architect nanodegree from Udacity. Do you recommend taking the AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional exam directly (skipping the associate level exam) for the very first AWS Certificate exam just by going through online courses from AIcloudGuru, resources listed in your post and taking 3 practice tests?
Or alternatively, take the SA Associate course and have a strong foundation before attempting to take SA Pro.
I am currently preparing for my AWS Pro, and despite having a year of AWS experience for my day-to-day job, i still think i am pretty green when trying some AWS pro practice paper. Ultimately, i decide to go through a full SA course and some practice papers first :).
I do have a colleague that go AWS pro directly with 4-5 days of preparation (and he did passed the exams), so just have your own learning path that you think suits you best.
I personally took the Solutions Architect Associate exam first. It used to be a requirement though you can now go straight to Professional. Without knowing personal circumstances, I would recommend taking the associate first, as it gets you used to AWS exam conditions and you should be ready to take that earlier. It acts as a good spring board. I have friends who then went to broaden knowledge and took Developer or SysOps Associate. I took the Security Speciality next as it was an area I wanted to go deeper in. Good luck whatever you choose to do.
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Thank you for the informative post Matt. I am going through the Cloud Architect nanodegree from Udacity. Do you recommend taking the AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional exam directly (skipping the associate level exam) for the very first AWS Certificate exam just by going through online courses from AIcloudGuru, resources listed in your post and taking 3 practice tests?
Or alternatively, take the SA Associate course and have a strong foundation before attempting to take SA Pro.
I am currently preparing for my AWS Pro, and despite having a year of AWS experience for my day-to-day job, i still think i am pretty green when trying some AWS pro practice paper. Ultimately, i decide to go through a full SA course and some practice papers first :).
I do have a colleague that go AWS pro directly with 4-5 days of preparation (and he did passed the exams), so just have your own learning path that you think suits you best.
I personally took the Solutions Architect Associate exam first. It used to be a requirement though you can now go straight to Professional. Without knowing personal circumstances, I would recommend taking the associate first, as it gets you used to AWS exam conditions and you should be ready to take that earlier. It acts as a good spring board. I have friends who then went to broaden knowledge and took Developer or SysOps Associate. I took the Security Speciality next as it was an area I wanted to go deeper in. Good luck whatever you choose to do.