Certifications

I have passed the AWS Architect Professional exam with a score of 791/1000! Preparing for the AWS exam I have recently completed the AWS Architect Associate Exam, and I thought the Professional would be a nice next step considering all the prep work I had done. I took about three months between passing the Associate and taking the Professional exam. For the Associate exam I spent a lot of hours each day going through the course content, writing notes and doing the practice exams multiple times, this time I didn’t have the luxury of time. I had to do all of the studying during work hours, where I could only spend about an hour a day (sometimes more, sometimes less), 4 days a week. ...

I recently passed the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam with a score of 848. This certification covers a wide range of AWS services which has taken a good amount of work and effort to prepare. In this blog post I wanted to share my experience preparing for the exam, sharing some info about the exam, and what has worked for me. Preparation I have about five years of on-and-off AWS experience, mostly with RDS, CloudFormation, Lambda, EC2 and a few other services. ...

Learning To prepare for the exam I took the Udemy Kubernetes Certified Application Developer (CKAD) with Tests which I could access for free through my company. The course covers all the topics required for the exam with labs to practice each section which I found super helpful. The labs are hosted on KodeKloud and they are free to access as part of the course. I had some previous experience interacting with kubernetes as part of my job, but I lacked a good understanding of the basic concepts. ...