This morning I sat for and passed AWS Cloud Practitioner test. It was on a whim that I booked it yesterday realizing this was (very) low hanging fruit I could easily pocket. From the AWS certification website:
What the exam is about
It is really a very basic exam that will test you on things like:
- What service will do something your business wants
- What are the benefits of running something in AWS v/s on-premises
- What type of service will do something better for your business
Mostly straightforward questions, I had 65 of them to do in 90 minutes. I got through them all in 40 minutes, didn’t review anything although I did flag 3 questions.
Some tips
Some questions were ambiguously worded – words like location instead of region, things like security-related requirements for your business but the choices weren’t obviously security related.
On a few questions, I was like – what the?! One went something like this:
What material will you use to make your house:
- Concrete
- Brick
- Mortar
- Tiles
- All of the above
Pay attention to requirements like:
- Reducing costs while maintaining availability
- Global availability versus regional
- Scaling versus availability and/or recoverability
- Application must live on-premises while DB backend must live in AWS
- Calculating savings with running your apps on AWS versus obtaining your monthly spend or historical data
With this test, I got myself this badge:
All in all, this was a minor warmup for the AWS SA Pro test I’ve got coming up. Till then..
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