AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional - Passed (12/15)!

averageguy72averageguy72 Member Posts: 323 ■■■■□□□□□□
Took and passed it on Saturday (12/15).  Goal was to get it done sometime this year but I switched roles mid year from de-facto security/architecture guy to official security person, so this one went on the back burner.

I've worked with the core services in limited capacity, mostly on my own, since tackling the associate certification a while back.  My company may be looking to transition some of our services to AWS, so I decided it would be good to go ahead and get it done.

I used acloud.guru for review (if you're gonna start from scratch, probably good to run through the three associate level ones first (developer/architect/sysops associate) and then read over some of the white papers/faqs as a refresher.  The best learning/reinforcement tool was providing an overview and how the company that I work for could leverage the services for our environment and doing a Q&A with the our technical teams.

I've been in IT for over 20 years - developer, architect, deployment, management, senior leadership.
CISSP / CCSP / CCSK / CRISC / CISM / CISA / CASP / Security+ / Network+ / A+ / CEH / eNDP / AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty / AWS Certified Security - Specialty / AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional / AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional / AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate / AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate / AWS Certified Developer - Associate / AWS Cloud Practitioner

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  • cochi78cochi78 Member Posts: 72 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Congratulations, that is a hard one :smile: Any plans to further go the AWS route or was this more of a one-off?
  • averageguy72averageguy72 Member Posts: 323 ■■■■□□□□□□
    @cochi78 - Yes, I still want to do SysOp.  But I'll probably go for Security/Advanced Networking/Big Data before SysOp/DevOps.
    CISSP / CCSP / CCSK / CRISC / CISM / CISA / CASP / Security+ / Network+ / A+ / CEH / eNDP / AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty / AWS Certified Security - Specialty / AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional / AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional / AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate / AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate / AWS Certified Developer - Associate / AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • ecuisonecuison Member Posts: 131 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Congrats on the pass!  I'm definitely eyeing this one in 2019!
    Accomplishments: B.S. - Business (Information Management) | CISSP | CCSP | TOGAF v9.2 Certified | Security + | Network +
  • ClmClm Member Posts: 444 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Congrats.

     me and a couple buddies are doing Dev Ops in January and i figure ill do Arch Pro in Feb
    I find your lack of Cloud Security Disturbing!!!!!!!!!
    Connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/myerscraig

  • JoJoCal19JoJoCal19 Mod Posts: 2,835 Mod
    Congrats on the pass!!! I still have this one my radar for the future.
    Have: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, eJPT, GCIA, GSEC, CCSP, CCSK, AWS CSAA, AWS CCP, OCI Foundations Associate, ITIL-F, MS Cyber Security - USF, BSBA - UF, MSISA - WGU
    Currently Working On: Python, OSCP Prep
    Next Up:​ OSCP
    Studying:​ Code Academy (Python), Bash Scripting, Virtual Hacking Lab Coursework
  • COBOL_DOS_ERACOBOL_DOS_ERA Member Posts: 205 ■■■■■□□□□□
    Congrats on the Pass!! planning to take AWS Certified Solutions Architect mid next year, along with some SANS certs.
    CISM, CRISC, CGEIT, PMP, PMI-ACP, SEC+, ITIL V3, A-CSM. And Many More.
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