After months of grinding, here I come!
Took Stephane Maarek's Udemy course and also the additional 6 mock tests, I personally think the slides alone are enough and shouldn't have spent too much time watching the videos.
I really had no confidence taking this test because I was scoring only 650-720 on the mock tests, but gave it a try anyway because I purchased the AWS exam voucher + 1 retake deal on Udemy, so I basically have 2 attempts at this test.
The questions were much more straightforward and concise compared to the mock tests I did, however there were also answers that were quite similar, which I skipped and only revisited after answering the rest.
Tips on answering the questions:
- Looks for keywords such as Highly Available, Least Operational Overhead, or Cost Effective to narrow down the answer scope.
- For multiple-choice questions requiring you to select 2/5 or 3/6 correct answers, identify the answer pairs. For example, a question with 3 out of 6 correct answers might have the following answers:
A. Encrypt the data at rest using S3-SSE encryption.
B. Migrate the database to Aurora Serverless
C. Encrypt the data at rest using KMS with customer provided keys
D. Migrate the database to DynamoDB
E. Use Cloudfront distributions with S3 bucket as the origin
F. Use Cloudfront distributions with ALB as the origin
By looking at the sentences, we can identify the pairs as AC, BD, and EF, and only one of each pair can be correct.
That's all for now, best wishes to those looking to take the same exam!