How I Passed the AWS Solutions Architect Professional Exam
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2024
- Lucy here! 👋 I finally passed my AWS Solutions Architect Professional Exam (1st Jan 2022) after months of preparation. 😄
In this video, I talk about:
• What resources I used / recommend
• My advice for studying the content / topics covered
• Exam strategy on the day
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:02 Resources I used for SA Professional Exam
4:05 Advice for Exam Preparation
5:53 On-the-day Exam Strategy
▬▬▬▬ Links to Useful Resources ▬▬▬▬
// Video Courses:
• Adrian Cantril's Course: learn.cantrill.io/p/aws-certi...
// Practice Exams:
• Jon Bonso Tutorials Dojo Questions: geni.us/udemy-jon-bonso-sa-pro
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Best SA Professional Exam Video on TH-cam!!!
Aw thank you!! ☺️
Glad to see you posting again Lucy! Excited for the content you release this year 🎉
You are the best. This exam is in my 2022 goals. Your advices are really good.
Thank you Lucy for this video. Congratulations on your achievement.
Congratulations! Adrian Cantrill's course is great. Time is very important, 180 minutes can go by very quickly when you are deep in thought. I ran out of time with 7 questions left and had to guess at those answers, luckily I built up enough correct answers to get a passing score. Reverse flagging is a good idea. Also at some point you have to trust you are ready, cramming and driving yourself crazy up to the last minute can work against you.
Thanks!! Yep time goes by soo fast haha.. congrats on passing too! 💪
Another great video. Thank you so much!
Congratulations!! Thank you for sharing as well!
Thanks! 😊
Your back!!!! lol So proud of you!! Let’s Goooo!!! Thank you for sharing your insight/resources! Now you get to celebrate and relax! Congratz Lucy!
Thanks for the support! 😄 yess hopefully more regular video uploads this year 🤞
@@TechwithLucy Take ur time 🙂. What you do and share with the world really educates, supports, and guides people. Your so awesome and I know people appreciate, are inspired by, and are motivated by your videos. Thank you again!
Congratulations Lucy❤️
Nice tips ! can't wait to take it
Thanks Lucy!, I used cloud guru for pass 3 aws certifications in six months. The platform include: courses, exams, and labs, it is amazing, anyway I will try also your curse recomendations to pass SA professional
Congrats Lucy, and thanks for the clear tips and explanations. Can you please advise on prep materials for the SAA? I see you mentioned that the SSA exam is easier and I wonder if you could please share your recommended materials for the exam prep.
Thanks again!
Thank you for sharing your insights.
Solid advice here, thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the great video~!
You inspired me to take the cloud practitioner and the SAA. I have both now and was wondering if I should go for the SAP. You inspired me ima go for it. Love ur videos
Congrats!! I settle this certification as a goal to get in 2022 until June. I hope it's enough time! Also checked the digital cloud platform courses to study, heard very good feedback about it! Guess I will take some of your tips as well (:
Best of luck for your SA Pro Journey! Yep the courses are great :)
Great video Lucy !! Thanks !!
Thanks for watching 😄
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I'll give your reverse flagging a go in practice exams to see how it feels!
No worries! Yes give it a go 😄
Thanks Lucy. Your content is very helpful🙏
Thanks, appreciate it :)
appreciate the info!
Your advice on taking a quick break helped me pass SAP CO2!
This was super helpful. I’ve done the AWS developer associate and want to do the architect professional at some stage but I hear it’s tough (both in broadness and depth of knowledge). I totally agree on the Tutorial Dojo point. I used them on my developer associate and in that case, if you can pass the Tutorial Dojo practice exams you can pass the real McCoy, I will definitely refer back to this video when I start studying for my architect professional. I will also share it with colleagues who are on that journey.
did you pass solely on the tutorialsdojo course? im taking that now and wondering if itll be enough
@mahirahmed6282 I used both Udemy (Stephane Maarek's course) and tutorial dojo for developer associate. I was, and I still am working with AWS in a large enterprise daily, and I think that also helps
Hey Lucy! Great video! Do you think ASA is good enough to start studying for the SAP? Or would you get all of the associates before studying for the SAP?
Congrats!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge
😄🙌
Reverse flagging sounds good. I like it.
Congratulations Lucy, I also passed right after Christmas. It is pretty intensive exam. Adrian & Jon practice exams are very helpful. I went through Neal Davis , Adrian courses multiple time since 1 year once I failed on first attempt. This is my 5th certification.
Thank you! Congrats on passing too! 💪 Agreed, their courses are so helpful :)
How many attempts we have .?
@@purushottamarasankula5059 I don’t think there’s a limit, except it’ll be pretty expensive to take it many times 😂
@@TechwithLucy how much overlap with associate exam?
Are you referring to 'digital cloud platform courses' courses? Pls share link...
Lucy's back!!!! ❤️
Yess, after too much procrastinating 😂 Let’s both make more videos this year!🙌
@@TechwithLucy let's goooo! 😁
Tutorials Dojo is amazing. They're so granular and particular about the details of each service. It forces you to know the services and configurations inside and out.
Agreed! I used their resources for all my aws certs 😄
@@TechwithLucy then you must edit your video and inform that too. The course which you prescribed it is very lengthy actually and costly too
Thanks @christine
@Bug Tracer, I HAVE mentioned Tutorials Dojo in this video 😊
Just their practice exams or also their courses?
Can you complete the SAA and then the SAP right after without the 2 years suggested experience? Or do you have to complete SAA, DA, SOAA before going for Solutions Architect Professional?
Great video!!! I'm enrolled in Adrian's course and its great. Could someone without a AWS-SAA just take Neals Davis course and Pass the AWS SA professional ? I know the test is changing soon.
Thank you very much, great advice. I only have 1 month to prepare, but I'm relying on a few years of experience with AWS, let's see if it will make any difference =)
how was, passed?
great and thank you. the only bad habit that i used to do is : exercice before the exam appointment, i'm x4 aws certified however, next time, i will try to relax and not act like a robot.
Also reverse flagging is genius!
Hey Lucy….. how are you and thanks for your vedios i have a question. Can i instead start with solutions architect rather than doing practitioner and then later solutions architect?!!!!!
Hello @Tech With Lucy, please for the SAA 03 exam once you have paid for the composition. How many chances do you have to pass, that is if you did not pass the first attempt. Are you given other chances to take the same exam without paying or is it a chance alone. Thank you in advance.
very impressed!
Thanks!
Many of the content creators on AWS Certifications didn't mention about hands-on experience while preparing for the Architect level certification. Is that ok? 🙂 Just curious. I'm preparing for my Cloud Practitioner cert now.
After passed asso level, still need couple of months to get professional ?
I am wondering if working on more lab exercise on real scenario is the difference ?
Thanks for the tips. I plan to write the exam before it is retired, which is a month from now. Over the next few weeks I'll be cramming as much into my head as possible. Really, though, I want to ace the exam (average of 82% on both CCP and SAA). I really like the idea of reverse flagging, since I found, as you stated, that flagging questions I was unsure of decreased my confidence and likely led to a lower mark than I'd have gotten if I trusted myself.
my aws queen 👸
Thanks for the video , I've a questin do you recommand passing all the associate level before doing the CSA pro or just after the CSAA we can start the CSA pro .
I personally did the 3 associates before doing the SA Pro, but I have friends who did the SA Pro right after their SA Associate! I’d recommend getting the Dev Associate one at least, before tackling the SA Pro 😊
Way to go Lucy!!! Please do a video on programming skills needed to be a solutions architect and resources you suggest. You are and inspiration and the reason I passed to AWS associate exams. Thank you!
Congrats on passing the associate exams!! Thanks for the video suggestion ☺️
Congratulations! You are the best!
Let me ask some questions.
How about the exam difficulty compared to SAA exam? What makes you motivate to learn for the exam and what is your next plan?
Thank you! 🙌I found the exam a lot harder than SAA and needed to do more to prepare for it. The SAA only took a month of prep but the SA Pro required a much deeper understanding. I was motivated to learn for it because the knowledge is something I can directly apply to my day-to-day job when talking to customers! Next plan is to take a break haha, and maybe sit the Security Speciality next 😄
7:12
Guess I'm different. So far, I study on the day of and just before other types of exams and ended up passing twice - 2 out of 2. I wonder how long that streak will last though. I'm not a very good test taker anyway. Then again my preparation techniques are a little different from most people. But if I can pass through all of that, then I was already prepared to begin with (last minute studying or not).
Btw, I gave your video a 👍🏽.
Hi,
I did AWS Associate certification already, Now i am preparing for professional level.
Is examtopics website good to pass the SAP C02 ?
Should I do all three certs before going for SAP ?
Hello there
Can anyone help me please
I was trying to learn cloud computing and i start taking a AWS course to get certified
But it's so difficult for me
There are a lot of terms I've never heard of before
And each term need a whole video or course to understand it
So my question is s
What is the prerequisites to learn cloud computing ?
I'm starting to give up and i feel like it's not for everyone 😥
Thanks for sharing Lucy, great video! I really like your strategy of "reverse-flagging"
Hey how important is real work experience as compared to lab exercises? I use AWS in my work, but only within limited scope (mostly serverless app deployment). I don't do e.g. AWS Organization or Sys Ops at all. Would the learning resources cover them enough for someone to pass the exam?
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This AWS practice quiz consists of 65 questions with a mix of questions on core AWS services, including all services which are at the AWS Architect (Associate) level. Please note that, unlike the real AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate), so you can take as much time as required to answer each question. At the end of the test, you get to review your answers and find detailed explanations of why each answer is wrong or right along with reference links for each question. This will help you identify your strength and weaknesses. With these popular Practice Tests, you’ll know when you are ready to pass your AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate)/ AWS Solution Architecture Certification.
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Oh my god you are so young and professional certified...keep it up
Haha will try to! 😄
Hey the exam will change soon, from august. Any tips for that ?
+1 for Dojo practice exams :)
How long do need fo aws to be ready for the Exam?
Hi Lucy please can you recommend some tips to have internships & volunteering opportunities in Cloud Computing, Thanks!
Thanks for your info, so you have any advice about getting jobs for freshers?
Congratulations on passing the exam. Just wondering, working as a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) doesn't provide internal resources (Training courses, material, ... etc) for passing the exam?
Thank you! AWS provide resources too :) There's internal workshops / material available
hi, Ive passed the associate exam, how long would you say it took you to study? like can you sum up the hours of watching the online courses, reading matirial and everything?
Hi Yoav, it’s hard to say how many hours I took, since it was a mix of direct and indirect preparation. If I had to do a rough estimate, maybe 100 hours spread across the months?
is it a prerequisite to take AWS Solutions Architect Associate before taking AWS Solutions Architect Professional ?
Hello @Lucy: How many hours does it take someone with a non-technical background to prepare and pass the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam?
Lucy, can you comment on the two courses? Is Neal Davis one better or the Tojo course better?. Both of them will take time.. how did you manage to do both
Both are great for practice exams - I found that Jon has really detailed explanations, while Neal’s questions were similar to the real exam. You can’t go wrong with either of them :)
Congrats Lucy, I also used Adrian Cantrill's course and Tutorial dojo practice exam and finally passed my Solutions Architect Associate in December. Some helpful tips and I may look into the Solutions Architect Professional Exam. What's your opinion of these "Professional" exam, as I recall in Adrian Cantrill's suggestion was to do all Associate exams and then go for the professional. Are they worth it? Is there a huge gap in terms of difficulty between the Associate level compared to the Professional? Welcome back and Great job!
I definitely suggest to take associate exam to fill the knowledge gaps ! I took all associate exams and attempt my Professional exam!
There’s definitely a big gap in difficulty 😬 the associate exams helped me build confidence before sitting the SA pro!
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Hi Lucy, I am currently working in a Nontechnical domain for the past 3 years and I am trying to move to Aws/cloud domain. I am watching a lot of videos and doing a lot of labs. But it is very difficult to manage since I have a Full-Time job and other commitments as well. Do you recommend anything on that? how to manage time. Thanks
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I would suggest actually building a project and deploying it on cloud with load balancers, adding lambda functions and dynamo db or other databases.
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how about exam topics
Thanks for the video. Did you use the AWS provided learning plan at all? Thanks.
Which aws learning plan are you referring to? I used some of the aws provided exam readiness course 😄
@@TechwithLucy AWS Skill Builder Solutions Architecth Learning Plan.
@@patrickoffenhauser7791 Nup, skillbuilder is quite new, I didn’t know much about it back then
@@TechwithLucy thanks for the reply Lucy, I'm new to your content and I subbed!
@@patrickoffenhauser7791 😄🙌
In your 2 hour daily studies, how many sections were you able to cover per day?
I usually watched things in 1.5 speed 😄 the hands-on labs took the longest
Acloudguru is okay good ?
Hi can you please share with us the link to bye neal davis cors ?
Link is in the video description 😄
Nice content
Thank you! :)
Lucy how long did you you wait to get your SAP after getting your SAA?
The 2 certs were around a year apart
@@TechwithLucy just curious why the year between and did you get your professional after landing architect position or is that what helped you cement a chance of getting position?
@@mikej1658 I did it a year after landing my job - just got busy with work
Currently i am doing study of AWS Cloud Architect, i will probably need your assistance
I’d recommend the cloudbites community (link on my TH-cam)
Who can tell me ? It must pass AWS Solutions Architect associate frist or not ?
Better to pass it first :)
how much overlap with associate exam?
Good question, the content overlaps but is assessed in a lot more detail
Did you do any note taking... Any advice
I didn’t really take notes, and focused more on doing the practice questions
Do u have similar video for aws saa
I talk about it in this video: th-cam.com/video/Cq3rRck71Qs/w-d-xo.html
Wondering why you changed your video course from Stephane to others at this level? I see you used Stephane for practitioner and associate level but for professional you chose a different one.
Good question! Stephane’s solutions architect professional course didn’t have hands-on labs. I gave it a go, but it wasn’t enough for me to feel ready to sit the exam
@@TechwithLucy thank you so much for your reply Lucy, I am just starting my journey, definitely I will consider your suggestions.
Best of luck!! 😊
Hi Lucy,
Greetings of the day...!
I have successfully passed SAA exam. Now I'm preparing for applying to Solution architect associate role at Amazon. I'm a software developer and want to change my career.
Can you be my mentor?
Have a great day...!
Best regards,
Hema
Nice video but it's very difficult to ignore the reflection in your glasses
Thanks for the feedback - I noticed the ring light wasn't adjusted properly, so in future videos there won't be that much of a glare! 😊
Did you work as a solutions architect before you took the exam?
Yep I did!
@@TechwithLucy
That is why, you will not have a problem finding a job as a solution architect.
When you keep doing the practice exam, is that not like doing a brain dump?
Recommend Stephane Maarek AWS courses on Udemy
Yes they’re great - but for the professional one, he doesn’t have hands-on labs
If you don't have AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Certification and at least 2 years of Hands-on Experience on AWS or any other cloud technologies. It is definitely useless. HR recruiters will not hire you, just because you passed the test (Unless you know someone who works at the company).
It depends on the role you apply for in the company - there are more entry level roles in Cloud support and also graduate programs that don’t require a lot of industry experience
@@TechwithLucy
For Solutions Architect (Position) role, there is no entry level.
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A common path though, is people start off in a cloud support role and then transition into being a solutions architect
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This video was not sponsored! 😊