Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Excursion into the Cloud: How to Become an AWS Certified Solution Architect

I have been keen on growing my insight as an IT arrangement engineer from applications to foundation, so I chose to get ready for the Amazon Web Services Certified Solution Architect Associate test which is one of the most significant and broadly perceived testaments in the IT industry*. I needed to share my system for effectively planning for the test and along these lines help others on this excursion.


Why AWS Solution Architecture? 

Inspecting the endeavor IT industry patterns throughout the previous 10 years, there are high-development zones that proceed to extend and compensate building ability: Cloud Infrastructure, Data Analytics, and Security. Albeit one can enter either the Data Analytics and Security areas through affirmation, the monetary and expert prizes are not noteworthy except if one has long periods of experience and particularly in Data Science, at least a two-year graduate degree in STEM ideally with a specialization in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or Statistics. Cloud Infrastructure has a compliment slant and less exorbitant expectation to learn and adapt on account of the magnificent, open documentation for the top stage sellers and the panoply of instructive assets I will share underneath.

Broadness of AWS Customers

Moreover, consider the inescapable advancement of distributed computing as conventional server farms dependent on heritage equipment and programming ebb due to their capex premise, firmness, and innovation stagnation. As Gartner's 2019 report recommends, associations of all sizes are relocating remaining tasks at hand to the cloud. Server farm spending eased back from a 6% expansion in 2017 to under 2% in 2019; server buys declined 1% in 2019 and are anticipated to additionally decrease 3% every year for the following five years. In the interim, spending on IT benefits including distributed computing is developing twice as quick ascending from 4% in 2017 to nearly 5% in 2019.


Cloud Platform Spending Trends

Also, one must evaluate the distributed computing sellers to realize where to put down wagers expertly. There are the Big Three and honestly every other person: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform are the undisputed pioneers right now of February 2020. AWS propelled in 2006 and has had a significant head begin once again its rivals with the end goal that AWS has 33% piece of the overall industry in 2019 and is developing over 35% every year. Contrast that accomplishment with Azure conceived in 2010 which has now arrived at 18% piece of the pie and to GCP which started in 2013 and has accomplished 8% piece of the pie. What's more there have been reports this time of spilled Google update's recommending that Alphabet is thinking about a potential exit from the cloud stage space by 2024 in the event that it can't reach #1 or #2 in the market.

At last, Solution Architecture speaks to a zone of the IT work advertise that is most appropriate to adjustment to the consistent change that underlies the IT business. The demon will consistently be in the subtleties, anyway Architecture is a calculated and legitimate movement that is lined up with the business, and distributed computing empowers one to all the more likely explanation about and amass the computational, stockpiling, information, and systems administration legos to configuration better appropriated frameworks that can take care of business issues. Assembling the entirety of this, concentrating on Solution Architecture for the top cloud stage (eg AWS) not just bodes well, it tends to be agreeable since you are having a key effect on associations and communicate with an assortment of partners. It isn't amazing then that the pay rates for Cloud Solution Architects are similar to and the employments more abundant than the other previously mentioned areas.


Use AWS grinding away and try at home.

There is not a viable alternative for getting your hands filthy on genuine tasks busy working and you will get profundity in certain territories; in any case, a significant number of the AWS administration client guides have strong brief instructional exercises and semi-reasonable examples that will widen your insight and extend your usual range of familiarity. This progression will be continuous and may take a year which is roughly the base measure of understanding before you can sit for the AWS test and happens to be the timeframe that the complementary plan of AWS administrations can keep going for an individual or corporate record.


Follow the AWS Certificate Training Curriculum.

Peruse the FAQs for RDS, EC2, Route 53, SQS, and VPC. Peruse the whitepapers about the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its columns; at that point ensure you can structure innovation arrangements that adjust and fulfill their cost, execution, dependability, tasks, and security requirements. Take transcribed notes and attract graphs to reinforce your comprehension of the material and develop a powerful mental model of how AWS segments fit together. Take the free AWS Digital Training video arrangement. This progression takes one (1) month.


Take the Udemy course by Ryan Kroonenburg.

A large portion of a million people have taken Ryan Kroonenburg's Solution Architect Associate course at Udemy. I strongly prescribe this course in light of the fact that Ryan is a great communicator, the A Cloud Guru material is present and careful, and the two practice tests that reproduce the AWS test are definitely justified even despite the cost of the course itself which can go from $11.99 to $149.99 contingent upon the continuous Udemy limits and advancements. This progression takes one (1) month.


Peruse the Crib Notes Published by Tutorials Dojo and Digital Cloud Training

The den notes and cheat sheets distributed by Tutorials Dojo and Digital Cloud Training are exceptional and consolidate wonderful broadness and profundity. They spread all the major AWS administrations that appear on the test and rearrange the audit procedure during test arrangement. Take extra written by hand notes from these lodging notes to enhance the prior AWS material and further strengthen your memory. This progression takes two fourteen days.


AWS associate solutions architect

I suggest taking at any rate 3 full-length practice tests before sitting to take the genuine test. Ryan's Udemy course has two such tests. You can likewise buy an official practice test from AWS itself for about $20. The best arrangement of training tests however is Jon Bonson's suite of 6 practice tests facilitated on Udemy which can be bought for $12.99-$39.99. Both Ryan and Jon's tests contain point by point clarifications for the right and mistaken answers, and their test reports help distinguish your qualities and shortcomings. This progression takes two fourteen days. You should likewise pursue the test once you are routinely getting scores above 75%.


Last test of the year Review

In the last week before the official test, I propose taking another training test, auditing your notes once again, getting activity and rest, and unwinding with loved ones so you are loaded with certainty when you sit for the test.


There are no alternate ways to achievement in Life. On the off chance that you can contribute in any event three (3) months and generally $80 for the two Udemy courses and the AWS practice test, have confidence that that you will pass the AWS Solution Architect Associate test as I did. I trust this article helps other people in the IT people group arrive at their expert objectives. Good karma and let me realize what you think!

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