DevonMclair

I took the Developer Associate last Friday and successfully passed the exam. I studied for about 2 months 3 hours per day.

A little background I've been using AWS for almost 4 years now, I am working heavily with EC2, VPC, S3 and RDS daily at work. Having the experience in AWS helped but is not enough to pass the certs you need to broaden your knowledge took some courses because there are many stuffs to learn.

The questions that I've got are heavily focused on serverless, Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS/ECR, Cloudfront, S3, EC2, Kinesis, DynamoDB and IAM and its relationships with all services. Aside from this there are few questions on Codebuild, Codedeploy and X-ray.

Passed the exam today.

A little background I've been using AWS for 3 years, I am working heavily with EC2, VPC, S3 and RDS daily at work. For my preparation I used ACloudguru and Jon Bonso/Tutorials Dojo and nothing else. These two courses are great prep materials to passed the Solutions Architect Exam.

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I went through the 2019 course and every ACloudguru videos and sped it up to 1.5. Whenever I got a wrong answer in the practice exam, I go straight to the reference links provided in the explanation which is the the AWS documentation since they have lots of rich information and also the Tutorials Dojo Cheat Sheets since it helped me a lot in eliminating tricky options in