Speaker: Vit Niennattrakul, Ph.D.

1. AWS Certificate: Why and How?
Vit Niennattrakul, Ph.D.
AWS Community Hero - Thailand

2. Vit Niennattrakul
- Ph.D. in Data Mining (Time Series)
- AWS Community Hero
- AWS User Group – Thailand
- AWS Authorized Instructor (AAI)
- Managing Director @ DailiTech

3. AWS User Group - Thailand

4. APAC User Group

5. Agenda
• Why AWS Certificate?
• How to get AWS Certificate?
• Examination Guide

6. Why AWS Certificate?

7. What is AWS?
https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/technical-essentials-
training-aws-innovate-ottawa

8. What is AWS?
https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/technical-essentials-
training-aws-innovate-ottawa

9. AWS is like Lego

10. Cloud Career

11. Solution Architect / Enterprise Architect
- Design an architecture and choose right
components for a solution
- Understand how each component can integrate
together
- More components you know, more solutions you
can create
https://aws.amazon.com/th/architecture/

12. Infrastructure / System Admin
- Implement and configure AWS services upon
requests
- Understand in-depth technical knowledge on
specific services.
- More features you know, less time you implement

13. Network Engineer
- Design network flow and network partitioning
- Configure network partition, routing, and gateway
between on-premise and AWS
- Understand all OSI layers including networking
protocols
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/user-network-to-amazon-vpc-
connectivity-for-applications-hosted-on-aws/

14. Security Engineer
- Implement security in the cloud
- Issue security policy with enforcement to AWS
account
- Maintain security standard with security scanning
tools and automation script
- Design encryption key and security firewall

15. Developer / Software Engineer
- Design a system architecture integrated to a
cloud-native components
- Implement a system using a SDK to integrate to a
cloud-native components
- Understand features and characteristics of each
components

16. DevOps Engineer
- Implement automate software development
process
- Guarantee consistency between development,
testing, and production environment
- Implement monitoring, logging, and tracing

17. Data Engineer
- Configure the data lake on cloud
- Separate encryption key for each sensitive tier
- Implement ETL, Job Processing, etc.

18. Data Scientists
- Understand data lake on cloud
- Implement and deployment data model to
production for business application
- Understand machine learning/A.I./data mining
Algorithm

19. Sales
- Understand benefits of cloud and communicate to
customers
- Gather initial requirements to support

20. AWS Certificates

21. Benefits – Certification Lounge
https://twitter.com/awsreinvent/status/935236801400225792

22. How to get certified?

23. “You must unlearn what you have learned.”
- Master Yoda

24. 2 keys to success: 1. Hand-on Experience

25. 2 keys to success: 2. Studying

26. Channels to learn
• On-the-job Learning
• AWS Training
• AWS Official Study Guide
• E-Learning
• Join AWS User Group / AWS Workshop

27. On-the-job Learning
• With AWS Customers or Partners
https://aws.amazon.com/th/architecture/

28. On-the-job Learning
• Channel
• Self-learn on the job
• Good
• Hand-on experiences
• Real use case
• Required correct guidance

29. AWS Training
https://www.aws.training/Dashboard/

30. AWS Training

31. AWS Training: Instructor-led public class

32. AWS Training: Instructor-led public class

33. AWS Training: Instructor-led public class

34. AWS Training: Instructor-led public class
• Channel
• Live classroom
• Good
• Role-based training
• Intensive learning with Thai instructor
• Can ask instructor directly
• Lecture note (Can use it later)
• Qwiklabs in class (Only during training day)

35. AWS Training: Self-paced training

36. AWS Training: Self-paced training

37. AWS Training: Self-paced training

38. AWS Training: Self-paced training

39. AWS Training: Self-paced training

40. AWS Training: Self-paced training
• Channel
• Online
• Good
• Unlimited re-run
• Extended topics from instructor-led class
• Has an examination guide free!

41. AWS Official Study Guide

42. AWS Official Study Guide

43. AWS Official Study Guide

44. AWS Official Study Guide

45. AWS Official Study Guide
• Channel
• Self-learning (Studying)
• Good
• Complete study guide
• Has instruction for self-learning in your own AWS account
• Has a plenty of example questions

46. Qwiklabs: Learning AWS without AWS Account

47. Qwiklabs: Quest

48. Qwiklabs: Quest

49. Qwiklabs: Quest Outline

50. Qwiklabs: Lab Guideline and Environment

51. Qwiklabs: Lab Guideline and Environment

52. Qwiklabs: Lab Guideline and Environment

53. Qwiklabs
• Channel
• Online
• Good
• Hand-on experience with use cases
• Has unlimited plan for unlimited practicing!

54. A Cloud Guru – Learning by the best instructor
https://acloud.guru/

55. A Cloud Guru – Ryan Kroonenburg (Founder)

56. A Cloud Guru – Certification Courses

57. A Cloud Guru – Certification Courses

58. A Cloud Guru – Certification Courses

59. A Cloud Guru
• Channel
• Online
• Good
• Unlimited re-run
• Examination guides
• Example questions

60. Join AWS User Group / Meet Up

61. Join AWS Workshop

62. Channels to learn
• On-the-job Learning
• AWS Training
• AWS Official Study Guide
• E-Learning
• Qwiklabs
• A Cloud Guru
• Join AWS User Group / AWS Workshop

63. Examination Guide

64. Examination Guide
Practitioner Associate Professional Specialty
Duration 90 mins 130 mins 170 mins 170 mins
Fee $100 $150 $300 $300
Validity 3 years

65. Example 1
• Which animal is a mammal?
• A) Lobster
• B) Cow
• C) Butterfly
• D) Alligator

66. Example 2
• What colors are in the United States Flag? (Select THREE)
• A) Red
• B) Green
• C) White
• D) Yellow
• E) Orange
• F) Blue

67. Example 3
• What is one set of correct steps to prepare breakfast of eggs,
bacon, coffee, and orange juice?
• A) Squeeze the orange juice, toast the bacon, brew the coffee, boil
the eggs
• B) Boil the orange juice, fry the bacon, brew the coffee, boil the eggs
• C) Squeeze the orange juice, fry the bacon, brew the coffee, boil the
eggs
• D) Squeeze the orange juice, fry the bacon, brew the coffee, bake the
eggs
• E) Squeeze the orange juice, fry the bacon, barbecue the coffee, boil
the eggs

68. Tips for examination
Eliminate incorrect choices

69. Registration

70. Registration

71. Registration

72. Registration

73. Registration

74. Tips: ESL

75. Conclusion

76. Conclusion
• Why AWS Certificate?
• How to get AWS Certificate?
• Examination Guide
Thank you! Good luck with your exam!
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