The breakdown is:
Through the journey, I utilized resources from acloud.guru , Udemy, Whiz labs and finally the really comprehensive guide on AWS services published by Sybex called "AWS Certified Solution Architect Official Study Guide"
Of course nothing, can beat hands-on practice, and thankfully some of my side-projects provided me the opportunity to do just that by hosting a LAMP server on a EC2 machine, a domain on Route53 and finally a database hosted by RDS service, and triggering some Lambda based micro-services written in Python.
Also worth mentioning, is a study-aid that I created for myself, based on some research into memory-retention that I like to call the "1-2-4-7" system. The goal is to revise everything the 2nd day, the 4th day and the 7th day (at least), and optionally the 30th, 60th and 90th days.
For this purpose I created in Google Apps Script, a program called which allows me to specify a topic and subtopic/page number, and the first study date. On submission, this program will save that information into a Google spreadsheet, Set up Google calendar events to revise that topic on the 2nd , 4th, 7th, 30th, 60th and 90th days, and sends me a summary email and remainder emails on those days.
Here is what it looks like:
The main page for setting up a topic:
Spreadsheet entries:
The summary email:
The calendar events:
The internals & program of the 1-2-4-7 System will be blog posts for an other day, but laid out here to assist and encourage others to utilize a similar system in their educational efforts, and to demonstrate my approach to organize my own learning.
In some of my future posts, I intend to demonstrate how I created and utilized a "Password management program" that utilizes S3 (and AWS-S3 encryption), AWS SDK and Python, for those who are curious to get started on unleashing the power of AWS. And then maybe more, in future !
Without any further due, I present my new achievements below:
and for those curious, about what the certification looks like, here is the link to it: AWS CDA - Certification
