How to ace the Elastic Certified Engineer Exam with some tips, techniques on preparation strategy, exam environment, probable (likely to be asked) questions and finally links to mock practice tests

1. Acing the Elastic Certified Engineer (ECE) Exam
Sandeep Kanabar
Twitter: @sandeepkanabar
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandeepkanabar/

2. About me
• Work at NortonLifeLock (formerly Symantec)
• Set up multiple ELK stacks on Azure and AWS
• Cloud Managed as well as self-managed on Cloud
• Re-architecting, fine-tuning and boosting performance
• Recently acquired Elastic Certification
Fun Fact:
At times, talk to ES support folks more than I do with
my teammates 😉

3. • Getting started with ECE – First Steps
• Next Steps
• Preparation Strategy
• Mock Exams & Practice Questions
Overview

4. Getting started with ECE – First Steps
The very FIRST thing to do
after signing up for the exam

5. ECE - First things First
• Check Exam Version
• Check Exam Topics (Agenda)
• Read FAQ

6. ECE – Next Steps
• Rich Raposa’s Webinar
• Surbhi Mahajan’s Blog
• Re-read Agenda. STICK to it.

7. ECE – Preparation Strategy
• Do few not all topics you are good at
• Gain some confidence
• Tackle topics not well-versed
• Repeat from Step 1

8. ECE – Preparation Strategy
• Modifying ES.yml is no longer on exam
• No questions on creating a cluster
• Likely a question on CCR (Cross-Cluster
replication)
• Likely a question on search templates

9. ECE – Preparation Strategy
• Likely a question on data stream
• Likely a question on search, bool queries
• Likely a question on aggs
• Likely a question on reindex

10. ECE – Preparation Strategy
Knowing how to use Elastic Documentation
matters a lot.

11. ECE – Mock Exams
• https://guido-lenacota.medium.com/
• https://acloudguru.com/hands-on-
labs/ece-practice-exam-part-1 (free trial of
7 days)
• https://georgebridgeman.com/exercises/

12. ECE – Preparation Strategy
• Questions