My AWS Cloud Journey Guide
2 min readAug 28, 2021
Below are the articles that made me plan first and a good head start that makes the way clear.
- On becoming an 11x AWS certified — Part 1 — FAQs
- On becoming an 11x AWS certified — Part 2 — Time Management
Completed my certifications in following dates:
- CLF — May 15 (Course from Stephane)
- SAA — Jun 13 (Course from ACG, Practice test from Edutech)
- SOA — July 24 (Course from ACG, Practice test from Tutorial Dojo)
- DVA — Oct 13 (Course from Stephane, Practice test from Stephane)
Start with:
- fundamental— Cloud Practitioner(CLF)
- associate — Solutions Architect(SAA), SysOps Administrator(SOA), Developers(DVA)
- professional — DevOps(DOP), Solution Architect(SAP)
- speciality — Security, …
Download Certification Exam Guide/Sample Questions
- https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-cloud-practitioner/
- https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-solutions-architect-associate/ (50% discount till Dec 31)
Good guides provided by AWS by role and solution (have good set of resources in it for each certification):
- https://aws.amazon.com/training/ramp-up-guides/
- Cloud Practitioner for CLF (Ramp-Up_Guide_CloudPractitioner.pdf)
- Architect for SAA
- Operations for SOA
E-learning provided by AWS (Any service you want to learn more search in aws training).
- https://www.aws.training
- https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=60697
- At the end of your learning search for exam readiness content (like https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=34737)
Lab Practices
- https://www.qwiklabs.com/quests/10 — SAA
- https://www.qwiklabs.com/quests/16 — SOA
- https://www.qwiklabs.com/quests/11 — SAP
Docs (can go through each service if want to a deep dive)
Courses
- https://www.udemy.com/user/stephane-maarek/ (paid courses, course cost drops to Rs. 455, Rs. 385 some times in a month)
- https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-new/
- https://acloudguru.com/aws-cloud-training
- https://acloudguru.com/course/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-2020
Practice tests
Lets Connect via LinkedIn — http://linkedin.com/in/hari-kiran-vusirikala/
