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As someone who doesnt have any real experience with AWS, how hard is the pic related certification exam if you just memorize what service does what?
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>>108619725
There are many "gotcha" questions that require really complex knowledge of every service. For example, what is an S3 ACL? What is an IAM policy? How does one work differently from the other? And it really fucks you up because you're supposed to use IAM only nowadays.
I wouldn't do it until I get like 3 to 5 years experience with it or by paying a jeet for the transcript.
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>>108619725
>who doesnt have any real experience with AWS
it you have experience with any other cloud like Azure or GCP, it's just a week to get use to. Not a big deal. All CSP almost the same. Some abstractions or services can have diff but in the end there are the same.
Even if you don't know any cloud at all but know networking\virtualization\security basics you will be OK.
This is entry level certifications just to know high-level how things works. Nothing special and deep.
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>>108619757
>complex knowledge
>what is an S3 ACL? What is an IAM policy?
is that joke?
Cloud specific certifications is a meme. Any skilled engineer can pass it easily.
There is more marketing than real technologies behind.
And dat shit mostly ClickOps (tell me where you need to set a fucken checkbox to enable specific feature or how to specify public\private subnets for VPC, click next-next-finish). Lame, gay shit.
For now I don't care about any cloud in case if you're using terraform with specific provider for specific CSP.
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>>108619900
I took the exam. They grill you on a lot of subjects in which you may think general expertise is sufficient enough, but believe me, they want you to pass the Shibboleth. You basically have to memorize AWS service trivia.
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>>108619725
While I can't see your image, memorizing services will only get you so far - the exam is all about real-world usage. The fastest way to actually get it is to build something on AWS. Spin up a project, try the services yourself, and you will pick it up way quicker. Plus, you will have something real to show for it.
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>>108619725
I work on a service desk for software hosted on aws. I don't really go near it, and have almost zero experience in it..the company I work for wanted the whole desk to be "aws certified" so we did this qualification.
Everyone passed, was pretty straight forward.