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This cert seems to be mostly nonsense? For example this question: > A company currently uses Amazon EBS and Amazon RDS for storage purposes. The company intend

This cert seems to be mostly nonsense? For example this question: > A company currently uses Amazon EBS and Amazon RDS for storage purposes. The company intends to use a pilot light approach for disaster recovery in a different AWS Region. The company has an RTO of 6 hours and an RPO of 24 hours. > Which solution would achieve the requirements with MINIMAL cost? You have 4 multiple choice questions, however only one uses the "Use EBS and RDS cross-region snapshot copy capability" while the other uses generic server jobs. It is therefore obvious which choice is the right one without even knowing anything about AWS, all you need to know is that they want you to pick the most specific option they have instead of implementing your own services.

geek_at 6y ago
This reminded me so much of the Oracle certification we could do for free in college (cost a bundle if not paid for by the college) And most questsions were taken directly out of Oracles marketing material. This was in 2010 but one of the questions was like "Why is it much cheaper for a client to use Oracle xyz.." and every answer was like a pat on the back of Oracle. Felt so dirty afterwards but I passed the exam ;D
Dunedan 6y ago
It's not as easy as it seems. For this question you for example need to know that such cross-region snapshot functionality exists. It could also be an answer made to confuse you, because maybe there is only same-region snapshot functionality at the moment. Also conditions like "minimal cost" can make an obvious looking answer the wrong one if don't know details about the cost of the affected services.
- username90 6y ago
  > For this question you for example need to know that such cross-region snapshot functionality exists. Do they put services AWS doesn't have in the answers? I'm pretty sure they wouldn't since it would make themselves look bad. But yeah if they put in a lot of nonsense answers I agree it works to prove that the guy knows AWS, but I wont believe they do until someone proves otherwise. > Also conditions like "minimal cost" can make an obvious looking answer the wrong one if don't know details about the cost of the affected services. Not really, the only time you can make sweeping statements about "minimum cost" is when it is both minimal both in engineering hours and running costs. Therefore the solution with the least number of engineering hours spent will be the right answer.

geek_at 6y ago

This reminded me so much of the Oracle certification we could do for free in college (cost a bundle if not paid for by the college) And most questsions were taken directly out of Oracles marketing material. This was in 2010 but one of the questions was like "Why is it much cheaper for a client to use Oracle xyz.." and every answer was like a pat on the back of Oracle. Felt so dirty afterwards but I passed the exam ;D

Dunedan 6y ago

It's not as easy as it seems. For this question you for example need to know that such cross-region snapshot functionality exists. It could also be an answer made to confuse you, because maybe there is only same-region snapshot functionality at the moment. Also conditions like "minimal cost" can make an obvious looking answer the wrong one if don't know details about the cost of the affected services.

username90 6y ago
> For this question you for example need to know that such cross-region snapshot functionality exists. Do they put services AWS doesn't have in the answers? I'm pretty sure they wouldn't since it would make themselves look bad. But yeah if they put in a lot of nonsense answers I agree it works to prove that the guy knows AWS, but I wont believe they do until someone proves otherwise. > Also conditions like "minimal cost" can make an obvious looking answer the wrong one if don't know details about the cost of the affected services. Not really, the only time you can make sweeping statements about "minimum cost" is when it is both minimal both in engineering hours and running costs. Therefore the solution with the least number of engineering hours spent will be the right answer.