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The Iron Rose posted:Passed my GCP Associate Cloud Engineer cert today! Was a pretty easy exam and I finished in about 15 minutes with minimal review. Learning kubernetes was super fun! Where does that GCP Associate cert falls vs doing CKA? Taking AWS SA associate tomorrow and I've put most of my time into Linux Academy (mostly for the labs) and Udemy courses - Stephane Maarek is a top notch teacher and the Jon Bonso practice tests are supposedly harder than the real thing Anyways, will also look through your AWS notes! Thanks 
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Mostly k8s stuff, not super comprehensive. 
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Passed AWS CSA associate yesterday  I kinda freaked out over how it had a lot of VERY specific questions over EC2 instance types and pricing, but whatever22 Eargesplitten posted:How useful would an AWS SA Associate be if my Linux skills are limited to grep/cat/ping/ssh? I've just been given a sign that I should stop being lazy and start studying again, but I'm not sure how valuable just having the cert is with what's otherwise pretty junior admin levels of experience. That's where I'm at and I'm in a tech dominant city, hiring managers and recruiters think it's a good thing
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The Iron Rose posted:nothing much has changed between 2019 and 2020, networking's still the same, EC2s are still the same, etc. I don't think there's any major hot new services that would be on the Associate SA exam in the last six months, but either way the ACloudGuru courses are new for 2020. Stephane Maarek's SA course has a breakdown on what's covered in the new test: code:
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rogue_squirrel posted:Going through AWS Certs at the moment. I’m looking for practice exams. Finished SA associate and SysOps associate so far. Working on the sec specialty atm. Keep an eye out for a sale on Jon Bonso practice tests on Udemy. Those practice tests were harder than the real thing and consistently getting high scores will put you in a good place.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Thanks, sounds like it's probably worthwhile for me to devote a bit of time on as a lead-in for the Associate-level certificate(s). Sysop is supposed to be the most difficult of the associate level AWS certs and that's why most people start with SA or dev
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Irritated Goat posted:Are the Udemy courses good enough to get most of the way at least in starter certs for stuff like Google Cloud, AWS? I know MS has their own learning for Azure. I can't really afford the monthly of CloudGuru right now. Stephane Maarek on Udemy has excellent AWS content and there's tons of other good reviews besides mine - I give him tons of credit for confidently passing AWS SA Associate and I plan to take his other courses as I go through the other certs You can probably find it on sale too, I think I paid about 30 something for the associate level courses air- fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Jul 30, 2020 |
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Hughmoris posted:There are more qualified people to speak to it but I'll say that is insane for the entry-level certification. A Cloud Guru has a class covering the certification: it's a 10 hour class with labs, and you can get a monthly membership for $40. Agree with taking a different approach, hell I've seen threads where people with no prior experience but with lots of free time do the all AWS associate certs within as little as 90 days
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Vorenus posted:I've spent a lot of time on computers, but not in a professional capacity. I've put together my own PC, learned how to gently caress around with Windows settings and port forwarding kind of stuff. So definitely capable of learning/working with tech, but with a very shallow knowledge base. Adrian Cantrill was a good instructor for AWS cert prep when he was with Linux Academy and I imagine he's still considered one of the best out there, I personally prefer Stephane Maarek
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I've generally heard this is the difficulty progression for the AWS associate certs from low to high: SA, developer, sysops
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I also suggest finding AWS recruiters on LinkedIn who are involved with Engineering Learning Series events. I wish I had mentioned this to Hughmoris (or really anyone else looking to break into their first cloud gig) sooner, my bad!! I see they are doing virtual events right now. The most recent one in NA just happened last week and it sounds like AWS is picking back up on doing these: https://gettingstartedwithbigdata.splashthat.com/ tldr it's a 3 day seminar with in depth hands on training taught for free by AWS premium support. The last day has a technical challenge and completing it is an opportunity to directly go to a final round interview for an AWS premium support role. I did one of these in 2019 and ultimately turned it down, but still found it valuable for both the knowledge (the challenge is good to bring up in an interview) and how to navigate the FAANG interview gauntlet.
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Resubbed to Kodekloud who also has a BF sale, I'm gonna try and out CKA by the end of the year - https://kodekloud.com/pricing/
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