Passed AWS Developer - Associate today

I have been an infrastructure and security guy first and foremost throughout my career, but I have found myself leading devops teams more and more recently. I'm heavily involved with AWS design as well, so I thought studying for this would give me a better understanding of AWS from a dev's point of view.

Was a decent exam, definitely could have studied DynamoDB, SNS and SQS a bit more but managed to get by. It is not the same as the CSA and SysOps exams, less emphasis on infrastructure components and more on workflows and how DynamoDB design and throughput works.

I have heard the Dev exam called 'easier' than SysOps, but I think that depends on your background more than anything else. That said, I actually scored a little higher on this than the SysOps exam even though it 'felt' more difficult to me, so... what do I know.

Anyway, I am done with all 3 AWS Associate exams now... deciding on whether I should persue the CCSP or CSA Pro next. Decisions!

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EagerDinosaur

Congratulations. Would you say there's a lot of extra work required to pass the developer associate exam after passing the architect associate exam, for an experienced developer?

jayc71

Thanks! If you're coming from the dev side of the house and have already passed the architect exam, I'd say you're in good shape. Make sure you know the services in the blueprint fairly well.

Kinet1c

Congrats, this will be my next exam in the new year.

DAVIS NGUYEN

Congrats!

JoJoCal19

Congrats on the pass!

Sina80

great, congrats

nawanis

Jayc71,
Let me know if you are done with CCSP or planning to pursue. I cleared CCSP on 29-Nov-2017 & posted details about my strategy to pass on this site. Feel free to get in touch with me if I can help in anyway, anytime.
Thanks,
Ashok Nawani
nawanis@iname.com

averageguy72

Congrats!

pencilpot

congrats