
I took the ACG course and then spent the rest of my time taking these exams and using the 30 question review feature. You have built a great community has always been very responsive! I officially passed my SAA-CO2!! I just wanted to take a moment to thank TutorialsDojo & Jon Bonso! I could not have done it without you! You have put together the highest quality exams to prepare me for the real deal.
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I will keep you updated! Update (2) I Passed! All in, it will be about 3 months to study, prepare, and take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam. I plan on using the next couple of weeks to take practice exams and read through some AWS Whitepapers. Lo and behold I have finished this weekend! I was able to take advantage of the High Availability (HA) topics and S3 to make sure major improvements to the current architecture in my ongoing projects. I also did try to get this done a little sooner by averaging 30-60 mins a night ~5 days a week. When I first started this course it was 14.5 hours and now it is more than 22 hours! Between the added hours and aggressive timelines at work, it has taken me longer than expected to finish this course. Then I plan on spending ~4 weeks going through the whitepapers and taking practice exams. I am not sure if I need to take all the labs, but I will find out! That may affect my timeline. I plan on watching ~2 hours of videos a week which would allow me to finish the ACG video course in ~8 weeks. Go back through the correct/incorrect answers from Bonso tests and take notes.Read through AWS Well-Architected whitepapers.

In order to help me digest the content, I plan on writing up some additional blog posts on topics I review Go through the entire ACG video course.

I plan to follow a very similar plan I found on Reddit: In all, I have been exposed to a good chunk of AWS services and have deployed to dev, staging, and production environments. CloudWatch has been awesome for monitoring all our applications and aggregating logs. I got pretty familiar with security groups and load balancers for handling access issues and traffic. We run our apps in Docker containers so we were able to take advantage of ECR to store our images and ECS to deploy them in different clusters. We set up our Jenkins server on an EC2 instance and first deployed our apps there. I first started with setting up a Postgres database in RDS, then got authentication working with Cognito. I have spent the past year working with a couple of different apps that have been deployed to AWS.
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I will use this post to outline what resources I plan on using and will try to come back and up this as this changes.Ī little background on my experience, I am a senior software engineer and technical lead on several projects.

I currently plan on taking 3 months during my full-time job to prepare for the exam. This blog post is to kick off my journey in completing the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification.
