AWS DC July MeetUp Presentation - Cloud7Works

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Becoming a
AWS Certified Professional
Madhu Vattipulusu
CEO, Founder – Cloud7Works
AWS Certified Professional

Who we are

Why AWS Certification
Strategy

AWS CERTIFICATION BENEFITS
For EnterprisesFor Enterprises For IndividualsFor Individuals
Identify skilled team members.
Reduce risk for projects on AWS.
Become part of AWS Partner Network
(APN).
# 1 Certification in forbes.com top
15 IT Certifications.
 Could open doors to get heavily
involved in AWS-related projects.
 Present to clients as a credible
subject-matter expert.

TOP 10 IT CERTIFICATIONS
Reference: forbes.com

AWS CERTIFICATION ROADMAP

TOP Core Services to Focus on.
Preparation Strategy

Goal of this objective is to get a solid
foundation of what the service is
about.
Basics Options
 Get Training
 Online Training
(LinuxAcademy, CloudGuru,
etc.,)
AWS Documentation
 Youtube

FAQ
 FAQ of each service

Labs
Get AWS Free Tier.
Practice the concept from AWS
Documentation or your training in
the AWS sandbox.
Some of the labs to try are
 Creating Cloud Front and
exploring all the options.
 VPC Flow Logs
 VPC DHCP Settings
 Identity Federation
 Route 53 Routing Policies
 NAT Gateway
 Elastic Transcoder and all the
options.
 Data Pipe line templates to
copy data from one service to
another.
SQS Auto scaling

Deep Dive
Search for “AWS Deep Dive reinvent
playlist” in YouTube.

Best Practices
For the core services know what are
the best practices.
Best practices can be found in AWS
Documentation.
Best practices can also be found in
Deep dive.

Security
Know how to secure the core
services
For example:- For AWS DynamoDB
table, know how to secure the table.
Know how cloud front security works
Know how cross account access roles
work.
Know how Identity federation works
using STS .

Non-Functional Requirements
Availability
Fault Tolerance
 Performance
 Scalability
 Other
Disaster Recovery
RTO, RPO

Cost
Know Reserved Instances well.
Don’t need to remember cost, but
know how to reduce cost.
 S3 storage classes
 EC2 instance types
Read below white paper

White Papers
Read below white papers
 VPC Connectivity Options
 Disaster Recovery
 Security Best Practices
 DDOS white paper
 Storage Options In Cloud
Defining Fault Tolerant
Applications In cloud
 Alternative to white papers is to go
through the AWS Re:Invent videos, which
have this content.

Quiz Priority
 AWS Practice Exam
 AWS Sample Questions from AWS.
 Other Quizzes from
LinuxAcademy
Cloud Guru.
Do Not do any other quizzes.
Understand why each question is
right or wrong from AWS Set.

Timing Strategy

Approach Strategy
1. Problem: Every question/answer has lots of details. May take more than 2 mins. How
do you approach?
2. Solution: Read the question
1. If you have no clue -> Guess soon.
2. If you are doubt on concept -> Guess and check for review later.
3. If you know -> Guess the answer -> Then read the answer choices
3. Best Approach
1. A small architectural diagram of what is presented
2. Focus on what is asked – Cost, Availability, Fault Tolerance or DR of the system.
3. Elimination Matrix (A|B|C|D|E)

Lets try a Sample Question
Reference: AWS Professional Sample Question

FINAL POINTS
 Do the AWS Practice Exam.
 Do the Sample questions.
 Read white papers mentioned in the AWS Blue Print.
 You may substitute reading white papers with aws:ReIevent videos specific to
those topics.
 Complete if possible the reinvent video playlist.
 Make a detailed notes if you can while preparing. Review it weekly.
 Use cases are important. Try to collect architectural diagrams on BigData, Web
Application, Batch, IOT, Streaming Media Architectures.
 Take the exam when you are well rested. Exam is close to 3 hours, and will have
long questions and answers.

Thank you

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