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Lately, I’ve been so busy with my work, new projects, and with our restless toddler. But last Sunday, July 24, 2022, I was able to pass AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional. Today I’ll be sharing my thoughts and experience on the said exam certification.
I can’t say that my preparation for the exam was 2 months, it’s actually a continuation of my review in the last exam I took which is AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty. My review for AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty was very helpful because some topics were also covered like AWS Networking (VPC), Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Auto Scaling, EC2, Load Balancer, Lambda Edge, etc. The videos, books, and tools I used for studying are as follows:
- AWS Skillbuilder Exam Readiness: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional. I also enrolled in AWS Cloud Development Kit Primer but no need for in-depth knowledge about it, just remember AWS CDK and its purpose.
- AWS Skillbuilder AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Official Practice Question Set (DOP-C01 – English). Free practice exam.
- Zeal Vora’s AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional 2022. Highly Recommended.
- Jon Bonso’s AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Practice Exams 2022. Highly recommended. Way better than other practice exams.
- AWS Documentation and FAQ. CodeCommit (Policy), CodeBuild (Test), CodeDeploy (Life Cycle), CodePipeline, Opswork, AWS Config, Cloudformation, Route53, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Container Service, AWS System Manager (SSM), IAM, Cloudwatch, EC2 (fleet), Auto Scale (Life Cycle), RDS, DynamoDB (Indexes), ELB (Hooks), Kinesis, Elastic Search, XRay, Inspector (Assess), and GurdDuty (Threat), and S3.
- AWS Whitepapers. Running Containerized Microservices on AWS, Implementing Microservices on AWS, and Infrastructure as Code.
- AWS Management Console. It’s a must. I already have more than 6 years of experience in AWS and I used it for work, so I just focus testing on those I’m not familiar with.
I spent 150USD for the exam (300USD originally). I got a 50% off from my last exam on AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty. I took the exam via Pearson Vue OnVue Online at my home or office. I spent also 17USD Udemy by Zeal Vora (make sure to use coupons from Zeal Vora’s Github account) and 14USD tutorialsdojo.com practice exam.
Don’t just depend on the videos and practice exams, make sure to read the docs and test. I already have 7 AWS certifications before I took AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, and this one is the toughest among AWS Certification exams. Some questions and answer selections are long to read. I maximize my exam time and didn’t hurry. Make sure to review those questions that you are unsure of.
Big thanks to my patiently and lovely wife Amah Galon CPA,MBA,(CMA), no words can express how thankful I am. Thank you also to my kids, Zeev and Amahri.
Good luck to those who will take the exam and see you around 🙂