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Your CSA associate cert? I recommend taking notes and going through your test exam multiple times and looking up correct answers for everything you got wrong. I

by tekkk 9y ago

Your CSA associate cert? I recommend taking notes and going through your test exam multiple times and looking up correct answers for everything you got wrong. It's harder than you may think and although i find knowing specific tidbits about AWS services quite meaningless it's still a measure of some sort. Didnt even raise my salary, hah. I had 5 pages of AWS notes of sorts after i had finished cramming.

eropple 9y ago
I think you're overhyping it. It's a memorization test, and not of a lot that's difficult. It took me about twenty minutes to blast through it and I got something like 63/65. It was more a disappointment than anything--I was going to then go pop through the rest of the AWS certs, and came away instead thinking they were a waste of time. Read the intro doc to Simple Workflow Service, because for some reason the test oddly fixates on that, and basically everything else is something you should run into in your day-to-day work.
- k__ 9y ago
  I'm trying the 3 associate exams mid next month. As far as I know the ACG practice exams should pretty much cover the real thing, but I'll probably some whizlabz tests to be safe.
- tekkk 9y ago
  It is but memorizing facts by rote is still some work, right? When you get deep down to it many exams are just that - regurgitaging a set of facts and nothing else. The practical side is often omitted and the level of your understanding never fully checked. Having said that I have come to the conclusion that AWS certs are compared to lot of other certs actually decent ones (or at least some). Even as a meter of your skill memorizing AWS facts. If you found Associate level too easy Pro cert is probably more suitable for your level. I think you're again downplaying it a bit maybe to give yourself a little egoboost.(not knowing your experience level of course) It might come as a surprise to you that not everyone think they are such easy tests.
- bproven 9y ago
  I agree its memorization, but the scenario questions that have compound answers are in there too to get beyond memorization. I'd say the progression of difficulty is Dev (lots of memorization and T/F) --> Solutions Arch --> SysOps. SysOps is by far the more challenging one and is not just simple memorization or T/F. But yeah they suffer from the fact they are multiple choice exams. But I think they are decent and better than many IT/tech exams. Practical / performance based exams will always trump these...

by tekkk 9y ago

eropple 9y ago

I think you're overhyping it. It's a memorization test, and not of a lot that's difficult. It took me about twenty minutes to blast through it and I got something like 63/65. It was more a disappointment than anything--I was going to then go pop through the rest of the AWS certs, and came away instead thinking they were a waste of time. Read the intro doc to Simple Workflow Service, because for some reason the test oddly fixates on that, and basically everything else is something you should run into in your day-to-day work.

k__ 9y ago
I'm trying the 3 associate exams mid next month. As far as I know the ACG practice exams should pretty much cover the real thing, but I'll probably some whizlabz tests to be safe.
tekkk 9y ago
It is but memorizing facts by rote is still some work, right? When you get deep down to it many exams are just that - regurgitaging a set of facts and nothing else. The practical side is often omitted and the level of your understanding never fully checked. Having said that I have come to the conclusion that AWS certs are compared to lot of other certs actually decent ones (or at least some). Even as a meter of your skill memorizing AWS facts. If you found Associate level too easy Pro cert is probably more suitable for your level. I think you're again downplaying it a bit maybe to give yourself a little egoboost.(not knowing your experience level of course) It might come as a surprise to you that not everyone think they are such easy tests.
bproven 9y ago
I agree its memorization, but the scenario questions that have compound answers are in there too to get beyond memorization. I'd say the progression of difficulty is Dev (lots of memorization and T/F) --> Solutions Arch --> SysOps. SysOps is by far the more challenging one and is not just simple memorization or T/F. But yeah they suffer from the fact they are multiple choice exams. But I think they are decent and better than many IT/tech exams. Practical / performance based exams will always trump these...