![]() The AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam (SAA-C02) consists of 65 questions and you have 130 minutes to complete the exam. This is purely an honest review of what I found to be the best learning material to pass this exam. Now before we dive into this article, I just want to say, I’m in no way affiliated with any of the people or products listed. 3 to be precise, and I loved every minute of it! Late last week I was able to pass the popular, AWS Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C02 exam. I would have preferred a score over the 800 mark, as there is clear room for improvement, however with under 6 months of AWS experience I was happy.Minutes turned to hours, hours turned to days and days to turned to months. I quickly jumped into the score report to see a confirmed score of 773 (needing 720 to pass). Then I must have logged in around 5 or 6 times the next morning, before noticing that my profile had updated to ‘Passed’. So I kept logging into my AWS Certification portal, must have been 6 or 7 times on that Monday. I had read on a Reddit post that the one user found out through Credly first before he got the confirmation email that it mentions. That was me, I automatically thought that I had failed it, in my head I was roughly trying to work out when I would be able to fit the exam in before it changes to SAA-C03 in August. So it is good to be very familiar with the AWS Well-Architected Framework and pillars.Īt the end of the exam I was greeted with the below, something I have not experienced before taking any exam… up to 5 day wait for the results. However it is that of the typical scenarios in which a Solution Architect would face on a day to day basis: Cost Optimization, Decoupling Applications, Least Overhead or Administrative effort. The exam itself I will not comment to much on, as I don’t want to breach any NDA’s which were agreed to. I then spent around 3-4 hours going over and making notes on the sections I had highlighted (I didn’t use this method for the Cloud Practitioner exam, but I wish I had – it proved very valuable as a number of questions came up on the test, which I wouldn’t have known had I not watched the sections I marked up). I copied them all to a notepad and deleted all of the sections in which I didn’t feel I needed to focus on any longer. It was looking at these comments where I found all the timestamps for every section in the 10+ hours long YouTube course. I read through some of the comments and even recently some people were using this to brush up on skills and take the exam. Moving away from this I started to take a look at FreeCodeCamps Solution’s Architect Associate course on YouTube, but at first was dubious as the upload date was 2020. I then took the final practice exam on the site and managed to score 82% so I started to build a bit of confidence towards taking the proctored exam. Doing this clearly highlighted some lacks of knowledge around the following areas Kinesis Data Streams, Aurora, RDS and Elasticache. I then spent week 2 going through all of the incorrect questions, working out why it was incorrect and what I had misunderstood from the question. I spent week 1 taking each test in timed mode, and I was scoring between 60-75%, not bad but not amazing. ![]() Once I had managed to complete this course I went straight for the Practice Tests created by Jon Bonso, again these are some of the best recommended out there, and always get high reviews. I started off solely using the Stephane Maarek course as I knew this put me in a really good position with the Cloud Practitioner certification and I enjoy his style of teaching (not that I have tried many others for AWS) however his courses seem to be similar to how Scott Duffy delivers his Microsoft courses on Udemy (Clear lecture/knowledge and then backs it up straight away after with a walkthrough – also mentions which sections will be in or out of the AWS free tier). So you can certainly do this in a shorter timeframe if you are able to dedicate more time to it. In total it took me around 2 months to study for this exam, however I wasn’t studying every day and most days it would only be around 1-2 hours.
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