Hello Friends, Since I spent good amount of time for preparing for all the two AWS associate certifications, I referred many resources to prepare. Here in this article I will walk you through some of the best resources to prepare for AWS associate exams. Meanwhile I will also list out the reason why I consider the particular resource to be of good help.
How to Prepare for AWS Certification Exams
AWS Certification is one of the most sought after exam in the IT industry today. If you are looking for some dumps or shortcut, this article is not for you. long with certification you should possess good knowledge of the aws platform to get good job.
Basically there are three AWS associate certifications. They are mentioned below:
- First is AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate – 63 %
- Second is AWS Certified Developer Associate – 89 %
- And the last one is AWS Certified Sysop Administrator Associate – Yet to take
Though the above order does not denote any difficulty level or priority level. I secured the percentage specifed against each exam. And finally the next is professional level.
Books For AWS Associate Exam Preparation
The first level of the preparation for the AWS associate exams is the below two books. Since these books contain the comprehensive coverage of all the relevant topics, both of these are good resources. It can be quite overwhelming to go though the documentation of AWS services. Both of these books contains the chapters, covered by exams sections.
I am very impressed and satisfied by the content coverage and depth of the topics covered by these books for AWS associate exams.
These books can be of great help for any level of professional.
Based on the choice of your exam you can go for any of the two books listed below. You can buy from the links provided below:
The books contain chapters divided for each of the services. Finally followed by the practice questions. As I have personally used both of these books for the preparation, I can safely recommend both of these.
The main prerequisite to practice along with these books if to create a free aws exams. At the end of each chapter, the books contains practice sessions to help you out and get accustomed to the service covered. Finally which can be you to visualize the contents covered.
Below figure shows the snapshot of AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Official Study Guide: Associate Exam book. As we can see in the figure, it shows the various topics covered in the exam with their weight age. The last columns shows the chapters which include these topics.
And as I mentioned the best part of the books is the question bank. Once you buy the genuine copy of the book. You can have access to around 300 samples questions. These questions give you a comprehensive idea of the questions covered in the exam.
Apart from these question you get around 100 flash cards. These flash cards can be used to cover the important topics of the aws associate exams. Below is the screen shot of the nice dashboard. You can access to this dashboard once you create you login account.
Key Inputs To Read the books:
- Go though each and every topic. Make sure to have your own notes.
- Try all the practice questions. Enable your online account by buying the genuine copy of the books.
- Try the practice session in your own aws account.
AWS Courses on Udemy
These are very good course on Udemy and these are must for any one preparing for the AWS certifications.
The course vary in length from 10 hrs to 18 hrs.
The courses introduce the learner to the cloud computing in a very nice and brilliant way. Each and every service related to the AWS certification is covered in these courses.
The author of these course take you through the live demo of each and every service. Again the main prerequisite to practice with the author would be to have a AWS free account.
The author also gives the tips to remember for the AWS certifications. Sometimes these tips are really helpful and can help to score well.
Though these course also contain the practice test questions but these are not as good as they are present in the above two books.
But I would recommend, depending only on this course would not be enough. If you want to have a good knowledge of the certification as well as the AWS cloud platform, I recommend you to read the above books as well.
While preparing for the exam with the help of these courses please make sure to make your own notes. As it is very difficult to refer the videos at the last moment and we can easily loose the track.
You can buy these course on the udmey or on the acloudguru website.
You can but the course from the links provided below:
AWS Certified Developer – Associate 2017
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate 2017
Whiz Labs
If you want to practice more sample questions. Whiz labs is very good resource. Meanwhile it provided six tests comprising 60 questions each. And one practice test also with 60 questions. The good thing about whiz labs is that you can take the test at your own pace. Moreover it also provides the detailed explanation for all the questions. In turn help to prepare with confidence for any of the aws certification exam.
Whiz Labs URL : Sample questions with solutions
QwickLabs
Qwicklabs is a good resource for the AWS practice. If you want to get more hands on for the aws services qwicklabs is one good stop for you. Some of the labs are free but most of the other labs are paid. You have to buy credits and these same credits will be consumed while practicing.
The other plan is monthly plan. You have to pay around $50 for a one month subscription. And you can practice any number of labs.
If you want to get hands on along with preparation, I definitely recommend QwickLabs. I opted for the monthly plan.
QwickLabs URL : https://qwiklabs.com/home?locale=en
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