Top products from r/AWSCertifications
We found 22 product mentions on r/AWSCertifications. We ranked the 12 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate All-in-One Exam Guide (Exam SAA-C01)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 3
2. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide: Associate Exam (Aws Certified Solutions Architect Official: Associate Exam)
Sentiment score: 5
Number of reviews: 2
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3. RHCSA/RHCE Red Hat Linux Certification Study Guide, Seventh Edition (Exams EX200 & EX300)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
4. Red Hat RHCSA/RHCE 7 Cert Guide: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (EX200 and EX300) (Certification Guide)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
5. AWS Certified Advanced Networking Official Study Guide: Specialty Exam
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
6. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide: CLF-C01 Exam
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
7. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide: Associate SAA-C01 Exam
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
8. AWS Certified Developer Official Study Guide: Associate (DVA-C01) Exam
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
9. AWS Certified Security - Specialty: Study Guide: Covers exam objectives, review questions and exam preparation quizzes
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
Keep your head up!
I failed the CISSP, and like you, had to do some soul searching on why I failed. It turns out, it had nothing to do with how smart I was, or how much I studied, but it was how I was studying that made the difference.
Please see this video detailing how I studied for and passed the CISSP on my second try and 4 AWS exams after that using the same exact method:
https://youtu.be/wod92WIn92E
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The materials I used to pass the SAA:
https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Solutions-Architect-Official-Study/dp/1119138558/ref=sr_1_3?crid=31WZJJVGJE1SS&keywords=aws+certified+solutions+architect+official+study+guide&qid=1570917672&sprefix=aws+crti%2Caps%2C256&sr=8-3#customerReviews
Also, don't sit for the exam until you feel comfortable enough to take it, but if you follow the guidelines in the first link above, it has helped myself pass as well as other people I've worked with pass AWS exams and the CISSP.
Keep your head up, and don't let this exam beat you. Please feel free to reach out should you have any questions.
Hope this helps!
My background: Passed CSAA, CDA, SysOps, Cloud Practitioner and CISSP
If you plan to take the RHCSA exam (which is hands-on), aside from the courses at Linux Academy,
there are three popular resources to prepare for it:
(1) This book by Sander Van Vugt
(2) Video courses by Sander Van Vugt
(3) This book by Michael Jang
If you like to learn by reading books and doing their practice exercises, I recommend first reading the Vugt book and doing its easier exercises, and then going through the Jang book with its more challenging exercises.
The Vugt book has some typos, but I liked that it has many short easy chapters to learn the concepts.
Near the start of Michael Jang's book, he writes that he expects a reader to have an LPIC-1 level of knowledge/experience before going through his book. So I suggest you go through the LPIC-1 course at Linux Academy to get yourself up to that level (even if you don't take the LPIC-1 exam) before attempting the RHCSA-level material.
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P.S. If you do want to get an LPIC-1 certification, one approach is to pass the current pair of multiple-choice exams needed for a CompTIA Linux+ certification, called "Linux+ powered by LPI". Once you attain the Linux+ certification, you simply have CompTIA send your information to LPI, and LPI will grant you the LPIC-1 as well. It doesn't work the other way (getting a LPIC-1 will not get you a Linux+). This arrangement between CompTIA and LPI is in effect until September or October. Visit r/CompTIA to find posts by people who've taken those exams.
There are books... such as this https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1789617316/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (they might have a few issues/mistakes/be a bit old by the time you read them... but easier to cover large amounts of content in books than video form, easier to make notes on them, etc)
Just another quick note - as i remember them...
https://www.amazon.com/AWS-Certified-Security-objectives-preparation/dp/1645469182/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2ZOFX8UDMCDC4&keywords=aws+security+specialty&qid=1569951792&sprefix=aws+security+spe%2Caps%2C169&sr=8-2
While this book doesn't go too deep into any particular subject, it does serve as a great refresher just before the test. You can get through the entire book in 4-5 hours.
Oddly enough, he does actually mention container security and the book was published in 2019. So it's current.
https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Solutions-Architect-Official-Study/dp/1119138558/
The Amazon trainer for the SA course that I took said that this book has the best questions for the tests.
Something like this one? https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Cloud-Practitioner-Practice-Questions-ebook/dp/B07BK1VJMX
(The first Google search result for "cloud practitioner practice exam kindle")
Actually I did at first.... I started with this book I found on Amazon, but I do NOT recommend it at all. The information in the book is good, but it's outdated and some answers to questions have changed since this was published so all it did was confused me when I started taking online practice tests
https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Solutions-Architect-Associate-SAA-C01/dp/1260108279/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?keywords=aws+certified+solutions+architect+official+study+guide&qid=1564545106&s=gateway&sprefix=aws&sr=8-4
How about the official study book?
https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Advanced-Networking-Official-Study/dp/1119439833
I used The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book and the Coursera ML course from Stanford by Andrew Ng for background. I used A Cloud Guru for review material. I also read through the SageMaker documentation and the legacy AWS ML documentation and took extensive notes on both.
Is this the book?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1260108279/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_1260108279