After close to 2 months of effort, following my AWS Certified Developer Associate certification, I managed to secure AWS Certified Solution Architect associate on March 31st. I scored 85% , with the following distribution among the topics:
The journey to CSAA hasn't been a easy one with requiring close to 120 hours of reading and practice. Along the path, I used my resources which provided very useful for my Developer exam, namely 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"
Compared to the developer - associate exam, solution architect covers a wider variety of techniques and tools, although not by a drastic amount. Following are the topics that are new for CSAA exam, in comparison with the CDA exam:
- Auto scaling
- MySQL
- Aurora
- Redshift
- Kinesis
- API Gateway
- Consolidated Billing & AWS Organizations
Once again I utilized my 1-2-4-7 tool, which proved to be a very powerful tool in this preparation. I am amazed by how well ingrained the AWS concepts are in my mind, as I am only days away from the exam, without requiring to revisit them. My last days before exam are just spent doing practice exams, making a very efficient use of my time.
In my view, the future of IT industry is going to be heavily oriented towards cloud and having a preliminary knowledge of different cloud services & offerings is a must-have for most IT professionals. To assist the community, I will be publishing periodic articles on several AWS Cloud services & offerings. My goal is to be brief and succinct so that the reader can have a preliminary and basic understanding of the topic for any future discussions or exploration.
Finally, I present my certificate the result of my hours of effort here: AWS CSAA Certificate
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