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AWS Solutions Architect Professional Exam Preparation Guide

This blog post will cover:

  • Brief overview of AWS Solutions Architect Professional Exam
  • Who should take this exam?
  • Some useful tips & Resources to crack the exam (based on experience)

Let's get started...

Overview

This is a professional level exam and it is considered as the toughest of all the AWS Certifications. It needs extensive knowledge and abilities in offering complicated solutions to complex problems in order to maximize security, cost, and performance, and automate manual procedures.

Exam will include 75 questions, either multiple choice or multiple response to be completed in 180 minutes.

Who Should take this exam?

This exam is intended for individuals with two or more years of hands-on experience on AWS to design and deploy cloud architecture to provide better solutions to complex problems.

You would need a deeper understanding of the AWS services in terms of how these services work together along with their best practices and useful benefits over one another in order to choose the best option for the given use case.

Some useful tips & resources to crack this exam

I recently took this exam and was able to crack it by following below practices. Hope they help you too.

  • Do hands-on labs
    Take any good Course available on Udemy, Whizlabs, CloudAcademy etc.
    I took Cloud Academy course that helped me alot.

  • Mock test series
    Make sure to atleast take 2 mock tests in a week for practice. I used Mock test series by Stephane on Udemy.

  • Read AWS Services FAQs and Whitepapers
    Many times the questions come from the FAQs and whitepapers as these resources includes how to best implement the AWS services, and how one service is different from the other one in a particular use-case. So, I would highly suggest you to go through them at-least once.

  • Learn about AWS Services best practices

  • Practice Time and Focus Management
    This is crucial to crack the exam. One thing that absolutely helped me in cracking this exam was the daily routine that I created for this exam's preparation.
    You need to ensure that you block your calendar or put a reminder to dedicate some focused time only for exam preparation such as for doing mock tests, reading through whitepapers etc. To know more, check out this video.

That's all for now. Thanks!

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