u/benjamistan

I used:

Frank Kane/Stephane Maarek's Udemy course - 7/10

• This was OK for the basics and comprehensive.
• Real exam was massively harder than the practice exam included here.
• I would use this course again.

Tutorials Dojo Practice Exams - 3/10

• The practice questions are out of date and the TD web app kept crashing.
• Their exams are broadly 40% SageMaker AI and there was ZERO SageMaker on my real exam. I had a dawning realisation that I'd wasted a lot of time when by about question 50, I still hadn't seen anything on SageMaker AI. I can only assume that AWS have shifted focus of the cert towards Bedrock and agentic architectures.
• Questions on the real exam were somewhat harder than TD, too.
• I found the TD stuff very useful and pertinent for my DevOps and SA certs, but the one for AIP-C01 is in desperate need of an update.
• I'd look elsewhere if I were doing the exam again.

I've got 7 years' experience of DevOps/SA on AWS. This is my 3rd Pro cert, so I used my usual method of answering practice questions and building notes and understanding from there. I took about 6 weeks of 10-15hrs a week and I answered over 1000 practice questions (including 12 full 3hr, 75 question sessions).

If I did it again from scratch:

• Start with the practice exams from AWS. This is the level of the questions.
• Source some practice questions outside of Udemy or TD