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I have an exam scheduled for 2:45pm. I tried to check in at 2:15pm as recommended, but I got the 'The check-in window for this exam is now closed.'. I tried many times but I am still getting seeing the same error on the page until now (3pm). I have already submitted an email through https://www.pearsonvue.com/us/en/test-takers/customer-service/email/asia-pacific.html as I cannot find a contact number or live chat for test takers.

Anyone else encountered this today or have encountered this before?

I scheduled this exam using a voucher that is only valid till 6 November, so i'm wondering if i'll be able to get a chance to reschedule this exam.

I am so disappointed in the pearson vue system. I did not have any issue with the system test that I took a few days ago, and I totally did not expect that I would not be able to check in to the exam, and then be able unable to contact any kind of hotline/live chat to resolve the issue :(

Yay Guys.

I posted for Aws Solution architect professional 2 days back and scheduled for DevOps professional yesterday and guess what. I passed it…. Way happier i am. I planned to pass both professionals at once. And DIDDDDDD

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My SysOps Associate is going to expire in March and I saw that to recertify it, I could pass the DevOps Pro instead of just retaking SysOps. I understand that this is a hard exam. I have a degree in cloud computing and use AWS daily for my web app but I don’t use it at an enterprise level. Is it feasible to pass that exam with just 3 months of studying? Say, 40 hours a week of studying?

#5/12 #7 needed for #Golden Jacket

AWS services on focus : Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis (Data streams, Firehose), AWS Lake Formation, AWS Lambda. AWS StepFunctions, Amazon DynamoDB.

Scored 830

For those interested in pursuing this certification, you can find the detailed exam guide here:

https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-data-engineer-associate/

Hi All, I am new to reddit and this community. I have joined this community as I got to know there are really brilliant people who did the above certifications or more than that. I'm a Software Developer with experience of 2 years. I want to learn AWS Security Specialist and earn that badge. I would request you all to help me with all your guidance and experience.

Hello, glad to share I just passed the Solutions Architect Associate exams with a score of 823.

This is my first time posting here but I've always been lurking in the background 😂 taking all the advice and information I can get. Thanks, everyone!

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I just bought the cloud practioner course on udemy and i was wondering if i can prepare for the exams using just the pdfs and disregard the videos as i completed AWS academy for cloud practitioner and cloud architecting

Missed the Cutoff to take the associate before beta ended - anyone know when it’ll be available to take again?

Guess Guys I finally did it. I got my fir ever professional badge

Lots of hurdles and tries. Finally a professional onee🥺🥺🥺

Woot!

Took the Cantrill course, took about a month and a half. Then I spent some time transcribing my notes to some index cards to make them more portable. Studied those when I had some spare time at work (which wasn't much).

Then I did the Tutorial Dojo tests. I did all of them except the last timed one and the Final one. I was doing one a day until last night so I just ran out of time for these last 2. My test was this afternoon.

Like others have said I got the Credly notice before the official email. Heck, I still haven't gotten it. I did login to the AWS cert console and saw I passed with an 812.

The TD practice tests were pretty spot on, I was getting mid 70's on them so I thought I was ready and apparently I was.

Anyways, huge weight off my back now that I passed.

For the curious I've got 24 years in IT as basically a generalist. I have AZ-104 (which I have to renew next) but actually don't use Azure nor AWS at work. Had no experience with AWS before Cantrill's course.

If you're studying for it now, keep it up!

I have been doing phone repair for a little over 7 years now and I have been trying to move more into the IT side of things but I haven't had an success with that so I am now looking to try and move more into cloud/AI side of things. I have a basic understanding of some backend stuff but not much, and what I do know is very rusty, so I have been working on a class for the Cloud Practitioner certification just to get me up to speed a starting point. So really I am just looking to see what people here recommend for a direction to get a good job using the AWS certifications based on their experiences. As of now I don't have a set end goal in mind but I have looked at Amazons recommended path for both Solutions Architect and DevOps Test Engineer, but again I'm not set on those they just happen to be the first places I have really looked. Either way it will be a little bit before I get to finishing my Cloud Practitioner then a little more time to take the next step from there.

No matter which way I go I need a career path change and the AWS route seems like a solid way to go for good pay and job stability, because I don't think cloud services or AI are going anywhere anytime soon.

Today I have got my First AWS certification in Solution Architect Associate (SAA-C03). Thanks to Stéphane Maarek and tutorialdojo for the training questions!

Hey everyone! I wanted to share my AWS certification journey for anyone with a similar background who might be doubting if they can pass.

I’m a backend developer with about 4 years of experience, but with very limited AWS exposure—I’d only used S3 on a few projects and had a basic idea of SQS, RDS, Aurora and other basic stuff. I know a lot of people here recommend Stephan Maarek’s Udemy courses, but for me, they were overwhelming. The sheer volume of new information made it hard to retain much beyond what I already knew.

Instead, TDojo’s practice exams were game-changers. They helped me understand the exam format, the types of questions, and the areas to focus on. This practical approach really boosted my confidence. The whole process took around 3 months, with me dedicating about 1.5 hours each day, and I ended up scoring 800 on the final exam.

Just to clarify, my goal was mainly to earn the badge rather than deeply learning AWS for now.

Wishing everyone success on their journey—if you’re determined, you can make it!

Hi,

Im going to take AWS AI Practitioner exam this weekend but the thing is I searched for the length of the exam. Some says 85 for beta, some 65 for classic, im bit confused. So what is the actual length of the exam? Thanks all.

Is there a good certification to do specifically for GenAI on AWS? I'm more interested in leveraging GenAI tools and not on the usual route of ML sagemaker models etc.

If not, what other certifications do you recommend tailored for GenAI? I'm right now working with OpenAI and want to go deeper into aspects of finetuning, perhaps may langchain etc.

Sorry, just posting a long question, but my intent is to get a certification while also working on my startup idea. Right now, I'm mostly doing prompt engineering and some AWS plumbing and hence finding ways of expanding my horizons.

Hello I'm currently a swe with over 2yoe and recently got introduced to the cloud and now I hold AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS AI Practitioner, AZ-900, AI-900. I'm planning to deepen my cloud knowledge to transition to more of a devops role and am currently considering two paths: pursuing Azure's AZ-104 or AZ-204 certifications, or continuing within the AWS ecosystem with certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Developer, or SysOps.

I'm interested in Azure since my company uses it, however i've felt the exams were a bit more challenging than AWS ones. For those experienced in both platforms, would you recommend one provider over the other for developer-focused roles and if so which certs would you recommend? I realized I don't really like the network and configuration aspect of cloud so I'm starting to think the architect certs may not be for me.

Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone,

I’m excited to share that I have recently passed the AWS Certified Data Engineer exam! I want to take a moment to share my experience and the materials I used to prepare for it.

TL;DR: 1 year of data engineering. almost 0 experience with AWS. I spent approximately 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, for one month to pass the exam.

First things first, I found the exam to be quite challenging, both in terms of preparation and the test itself.

My background: I graduated from the Humanities faculty with a major in English. Currently, I have about a year of experience as a junior data engineer, mostly working with Microsoft Fabric. I also gained some experience with the Google Cloud Platform during my internship.

Any experience with AWS would be that I used to use MinIO as a Data Lake in my personal study project--but that's all I have.

Thought: I felt relatively confident with topics like AWS Glue, Athena, and S3. However, I struggled with real-time or near-real-time analysis topics like Amazon Kinesis. Although I passed the exam, I aim to improve my score (my goal is to achieve 900+).

Preparation & Materials: I spent a month in preparation. This included reading various materials, watching instructional videos, and practicing mock exams for about 4 hours each day, 5 days a week.

To lay down my AWS foundation, I took the Udemy course from Nikolai Schuler
https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-data-engineer-associate-dea-c01/?couponCode=ST6MT103124

Only this course cannot make you pass the exam, but it is good enough to lay down the foundation for those who have no experience with AWS like me.

I also watch a FREE course made by Johnny Chivers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G0bLDIcO7Y

VPC topics from YouTube Be A Better Dev:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApGz8tpNLgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo3X_aay4Vs

Meanwhile, I studied from those instructional videos, I also took

Practice Exams from Stephane Maarek and Abhishek Singh
https://www.udemy.com/course/practice-exams-aws-certified-data-engineer-associate-r/?couponCode=ST6MT103124

Practice Exams from Johnny Chivers
https://www.udemy.com/course/practice-exams-aws-certified-data-engineer-associate-johnny-chivers/?couponCode=ST6MT103124

For reading material, except from the AWS website:
I read the Medium published by Liu Zuo Lin
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/aws-data-engineer-associate-cheatsheet-consolidated-self-test-4af545a7878c

Noted that I didn't finish all the videos first then tried to take a mock exam, but doing them parallelly.

Final Thought: I think I could have done better. However, with my limited experience, brain power, and time; this is good enough for now. I don't know whether I will have the day when I have more than 900+ score, but I hope it will come (soon) :D

Good luck to all of you newbies who are preparing for the exam.

Just purchased TD CCP practice exams. Been scoring 55-65% on all practices neil davis, stephane, linked learning. Hoping to clear the 6 practice exams in review mode as noted while writing incorrect answers down. Looking to take next Friday.

Got Certified for AWS Developer Associate (DVA-CO2)

Thanks to Stéphane Maarek & TD for their courses and practice exams.

Special thanks to this wonderful community. ❤️

Hello everybody. I am finally AWS certified today. I cant thank this community enough.

For my prep I used tutorial dojo video lectures and their ebook along with AWS documentation and AWS white papers.

I then used tutorial dojo practice test with a mixture of review mode and time mode- pretty much scored an average of 70-72 in them. Then took a weeks gap brushed up a few things i was weak in and retook 3 tests. I scored in 80s felt confident and went for the test. I cleared with 764. I did have jitters in the exam hall as it has been a while since i took any time based test.

I am now looking to follow through with cloudresume challenge and any other advice this community offers so i can land a job in the cloud field 😊

Thank you 🙏

Hi, for those who have taken AWS SAA-C03 Solution Architect Associate exam on site, how long does it take for you to know if you have passed and score ? and did you get via email or phone text ? Thanks.

I am in my second year of university and am considering getting the Solutions Architect certification. I have knowledge of cloud fundamentals and have uploaded a side project on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Would it be worth getting the certification now, or would it be better to wait until after graduation?

I am trying to decide whether to take the AWS ML Engineer Associate or the ML Specialty certification first.

Does anyone know which is more difficult and which is regarded as more valuable?

Thanks!

You guys might get a lot of these and sorry in advanced if this sounds like every other person but does anyone have any good recommendations for YouTube videos to watch for the solutions architect associate cert ?

I've been working through Stéphane Maarek's Udemy course, dedicating 15-20 minutes daily. Although I've completed it once, I feel I've forgotten a significant portion of the material. I've been planning to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam for a year now, and I've finally scheduled it for November 12th. To maximize my preparation time, I've also started Neal Davis' course, which I plan to complete in the next few days by dedicating 2-3 hours per day. Could you please provide some tips on how to efficiently study and retain the information necessary for the exam, especially given my limited time frame? Additionally, could you recommend some reliable practice exam resources to help me assess my knowledge and identify areas for improvement?

I have been studying for the CSAP exam for about 4 months now, and I'm already on the verge of getting extremely sick of it. I don't know if it's worth it for me to continue studying for it or just book an exam and get it over with.

I did not have time to test before, but now I do. However, some concepts are still very muddy, like identity and networking, but there's no way I can get real hands-on experience with those because I will not be managing 5000 users in different OUs under AWS control tower nor will I be implementing SSO with the company LDAP.

I have two options (or three if I consider just completely abandoning this):

1. Bite the bullet and take the exam. I have very little confidence in passing but it has been so long already, and I've already memorized most of TD's questions and choices that at this point I don't even know if I actually know the answers or if it's because I memorized the answers.

2. Build some personal projects with AWS and then take the exam. I'm also applying to jobs now and it might help, but I'm afraid this would cause me to forget some concepts I memorized or if they release a new SAP-C03 version then I'm f#cked and have to restudy everything all over again.

The main thing is the discount voucher, I have the 50% off, but if I fail, I would have to pay full price to retake the certificate, and at $300 a try, I really am doubting rather this is worthwhile or not.

Thank you for reading all the way through and I value any insight or opinions.

Which one should I go for and who has the best study resources for the exams?