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kimcicle
Feb 23, 2003

big money big clit posted:

I'd put it roughly in line with a VCP as far as difficulty and breadth of material. There's quite a lot that you're expected to be passingly familiar with, but only a handful of topics that are covered in depth. VPC, EC2, EBS, S3, auto-scaling and load balancing, and cloudwatch are the big ones that have multiple questions asked about them. It's not too difficult, I used the Sybex study guide for about 90% of my preparation and passed on the first try, though it wasn't a slam dunk.

Does somebody need to have some meaningful work experience with AWS to get certified, or can I get the cert with enough studying / toying around with the free stuff Amazon provides?

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kimcicle
Feb 23, 2003

big money big clit posted:

You can certainly pass it without any work experience just by studying and labbing things out, though you'll need to spend a little money to try everything because it isn't free tier eligible. But if you're diligent about cleaning up after yourself it's not too expensive, maybe 10 bucks a month at most.

Awesome, I've been toying with the idea of getting AWS certified but don't want to drop the $2k that some online classes are charging for the cert prep.

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