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Are AWS Certifications Hard? – My Definitive Answer

Answering this question is always going to be subjective and will depend on who you ask! But if you’re after the textbook answer then here’s how I’d quantify it. While determining difficulty of an exam is always going to involve an element of subjective opinion. It’s fair to say that the exams increase in difficulty as you progress through the …

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AWS Certification For Testers – A Comprehensive Review

This is a question I’ve heard a few times now and I don’t think anyone’s answered it in any kind of comprehensive way so I wanted to put my 2 cents in. I’ve surmised the answer in a few sentences if you’re in a rush. While there is no specific AWS certification for testers. Picking either the Architect Associate or …

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Are AWS Certifications Worth It? Yes, Here’s 10 Reasons Why

Asking yourself if you think it’s worth gaining an AWS Certification? I found myself asking the very same question and couldn’t find a comprehensive list of the benefits of getting AWS certified. Now that I’ve passed, I decided to put together that list and the results you might expect from passing one or more of the AWS Certifications. Certifications provide …

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Tempted by AWS Certification Dumps? Do this Instead!

Searching for a AWS certification dump? Read this article and I’ll give you something far more useful for the exam, plus 25 mock questions. AWS certification dumps aren’t an effective tool when taking you exam. This is because each time a student takes the exam, the questions that they answer are picked at random from a pool of over 500 …

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25 Free AWS Practitioner Exam Quality Questions and Answers

I thought I’d put together a bunch of high quality, exam difficulty questions and answers to help you prepare for your AWS Practitioner exam. Let’s dive in. In my recent post “I Passed the AWS Practitioner Exam” I gave a series of tips and tricks on how best to plan your exam day and what’s it like once you’re in …

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I Passed the AWS Practitioner Exam

Last week I took the AWS practitioner exam and passed it. Here’s my thoughts on the exam and tips that may help you when it’s your turn to take the plunge. You’ve been revising for the past couple of months. You’ve answered a million mock exam questions and right now you think you know more than Andy Jassy about AWS. …

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AWS S3 – The Ultimate Guide Part 2

Snowball Ok, so in part 1  of our S3 ultimate guide series, we learnt how to upload files to an S3 bucket. That’s all well and good if you have a decent upload speed and you only want to put relatively small amounts of data on to S3 (when I say small I’m thinking gigabytes). What happens when you want …

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AWS S3 – The Ultimate Guide

Introduction For a comprehensive and useful explanation of Amazons Storage solution it’s really going to take more than just a single blog post. Unless that is, you want to spend the next 2 hours reading a 6000 word behemoth. As some wise person from wherever said “On a long journey, take many small steps” With that spirit in mind, lets …

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AWS support plan – a detailed explanation and comparison of what they offer

Overview of AWS support plans After completing 3 of the Whiz Labs mock exams (found in the Resources TODO add link section) and analysing the questions I got wrong. I found that I was consistently struggling with the questions around support plans. So, sticking with the principal of turning your weaknesses into strengths. I decided to write this blog to …

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AWS Practitioner – Everything you need to know about the exam

What is the AWS Practitioner certification? So, I’m no stranger to certifications. In my 12 years as a developer I’ve collected a bunch of them. And they help! My Java and Spring certs played no small part getting my first contract gig. I’ve found that having an industry recognized qualification can really cut through the “Can this guy do what …