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Passed SAA-C03 today, here's what I reviewed after
Very happy to share my SAA here after following tips here for over a month. Seeing so many people sharing their success was inspiring.
I still remember some of (my) marked for review questions, I'll try to remember the topics and I encourage people to review those and go in more confident.
My main points are:
- I did not do video courses or followed skillbuilder that much, I did only TD and many timed/review exams, around dozen of those over a month, I stopped once it started to feel too familiar then I scheduled the exam. I have over 10 years of practical experience with AWS, but more around being and supporting dev teams and products, not that deep on networks.
- I was amazed on how much TD timed and review exams are on point. I mean, my very first question felt like I have answered it at least twice. The difficulty was on par, but only a few times I scored around that 85% mark so I'm very happy with myself and super pleased with TD.
- Also, the subjects at TD also felt like they have the exact coverage on topics. I did not see any topic that wasn't touched, nor any super new topic. Only one about AI but about SageMaker, and only two about Kubernetes but one around securing EKS. I encourage people not to fear new topics, I had many many questions around storage, EC2, load balancers, ECS, IAM, the usual suspects.
- I credit TD questions and support materials on closing my gaps around networks and storage options.
I remember to have marked around 10 questions for review, and a few other I was not 100% sure but I saw no point marking those for review.
Here's topics I reviewed some material because I failed to remember those properly:
- S3 Object Lock about governance and compliance mode - more than one question
- One cannot overstudy S3 scenarios nor filesystems scenarios
- PII data security between Macie and Inspector
- I got a question about using Flink vs EMR vs Glue! I remember a similar question on TD, mine was about ingesting and processing data in near real time plus viewing it after
- ECS containers needing to access files either via EBS multiattach or plain EFS
- EventBridge API Destinations
- CloudFront accessing either NLB or ALB, TD helped me with those 100%
- Many questions about API Gateway scenarios
- RDS MySQL having a reader endpoint? IMO only Auroras have those
- A very cool but difficult DR scenario with RTO and RPO of 15 minutes, but the most cost effective solution so it was about choosing between keeping the DR env switched off or not
- Lambdas running inside VPC
- No questions about XRay, I barely remember getting any about Logs. I got more about Kinesis and Firehose.
Hope this helps someone. Again, I can't praise TD exams enough.
On to Developer Associate!
u/fmalk — 4 days ago