SAA-C03 scheduled exam in two weeks.. feeling like I’m not ready.

For context, this is my re-certification as my SAA expired in July. I also work in tech for a company fully on AWS (and the certification is required by them), so I’m not wholly unfamiliar, though my day to day experience is limited. In the last 6 months I think I have touched ECS, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, Route 53, and IAM. The vast majority of services I don’t know and never work with.

Three years ago I barely passed (I think like 726 or something) and my study tool was almost exclusively Stephan Maarek’s course and exams. I also read AWS’ guides on services that Maarek didn’t cover.

I’ve been studying for a couple months now to re-certify. So far I have refreshed Maarek’s course (not the whole course, just parts I had a harder time recalling), bought TD and have been doing those reviews and practice exams. I’m at like 40% on TD exams and am running into questions that make me question how much I know at all… sometimes I encounter something in a service I thought I knew that I don’t recall ever seeing (like a specific configuration). There’s a lot that Maarek didn’t cover.

Anyways, with two weeks to go, I’m a bit stressed about if I’m ready. I’m doing practice questions every day and can’t seem to break past 40-50% scores in TD. I’ll take any advice this group has :) TIA!

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u/Huge-Comfort376 — 3 days ago
▲ 2 r/iphone

Retrieve old song files from iPhone

My best guess is that this isn’t possible, but in case anyone has a solution I’m asking anyways.

I have songs on my iPhone in Apple Music that I made in LogicPro about 15 years ago. The old laptop I created them on is dead and I have no cloud backups of these songs. Somehow they’ve survived on iPhone transfers for the last ~15 years.

I’m hoping there’s some way to retrieve the song files off and transfer them to cloud storage so I don’t risk losing them if they ever accidentally get deleted off my iPhone.

Obviously Apple Music doesn’t let you just download song files for legal reasons, but these are songs I custom uploaded to my iPhone and am hoping to download again from my iPhone.

TIA!

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u/Huge-Comfort376 — 2 months ago

Renewal time - been three years already!

Whelp, got the email that my certificate is about to expire :’)

For those who renewed this year: has it changed much? New services to learn? Any harder than it was three years ago?

I’m currently rewatching Maarek’s videos and going to spend 1-2 weeks taking practice exams. Any insights on the exam now vs. three years ago would be appreciated!

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u/Huge-Comfort376 — 2 months ago
▲ 5 r/aoe2

Dodging

Is it just me or is dodging getting way more frequent? Used to be once in a while players would dodge, unfortunate but you sit in the queue longer waiting for a new match. Today, we have been sitting through 1-3 dodges before every match. Do people not like the map pool? What changed?

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u/Huge-Comfort376 — 2 months ago

I feel a little sad every time I pick up a water slug

They tremble whenever you get close and look all cute and scared and I always feel bad. But we gotta hydrate 😭

That’s all 🥺

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u/Huge-Comfort376 — 3 months ago