I Passed The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam

My thoughts on the Amazon Web Services Certified Cloud Practitioner
First off this is an introductory exam so you’re not going to be deep in the weeds spinning up instances from your Golden AMI. This Cert is broad and high level but it will give you the knowledge to go into a meeting and know what they are talking about This would be something great for entry level techs/engineers, sales teams, managers, and the people with C’s in their titles.
How long did it take me to study? Two days, I was already in the process of studying for the architect exam so I knew all the core services already. If you were to grind and study you could defiantly knock this exam out in two weeks.
Resources /Videos
https://acloud.guru/
There are two courses I would recommend if you are familiar with the AWS core services (S3, EC2, VPC, RDS, ELB) you will most likely just need to take the 5 hour class made specifically for this exam. If you don’t know the core services I would take the Architect class first.
Amazon AWS has some free training that I have never used https://aws.amazon.com/training/
Resources /Reading
Here are the required readings
https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-overview.pdf
https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/AWS_Cloud_Best_Practices.pdf
https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws_pricing_overview.pdf
https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-tco-web-applications.pdf
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/compare-plans/
TIPS
Tams only come with enterprise level support
Know the two calculators (TCO & Monthly)
Inspector covers security
Trusted Advisor covers Cost Optimization, Performance, Security, Fault Tolerance and service limits
Reading the white papers is extremely important
if you have any questions please reach out.
First off this is an introductory exam so you’re not going to be deep in the weeds spinning up instances from your Golden AMI. This Cert is broad and high level but it will give you the knowledge to go into a meeting and know what they are talking about This would be something great for entry level techs/engineers, sales teams, managers, and the people with C’s in their titles.
How long did it take me to study? Two days, I was already in the process of studying for the architect exam so I knew all the core services already. If you were to grind and study you could defiantly knock this exam out in two weeks.
Resources /Videos
https://acloud.guru/
There are two courses I would recommend if you are familiar with the AWS core services (S3, EC2, VPC, RDS, ELB) you will most likely just need to take the 5 hour class made specifically for this exam. If you don’t know the core services I would take the Architect class first.
Amazon AWS has some free training that I have never used https://aws.amazon.com/training/
Resources /Reading
Here are the required readings
https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-overview.pdf
https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/AWS_Cloud_Best_Practices.pdf
https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws_pricing_overview.pdf
https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-tco-web-applications.pdf
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/compare-plans/
TIPS
Tams only come with enterprise level support
Know the two calculators (TCO & Monthly)
Inspector covers security
Trusted Advisor covers Cost Optimization, Performance, Security, Fault Tolerance and service limits
Reading the white papers is extremely important
if you have any questions please reach out.
I find your lack of Cloud Security Disturbing!!!!!!!!!
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For security professionals i would say the architect , sysop or the security specialty when it comes out.
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thanks.
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