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Get AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Challenge
Join this challenge and set a goal for earning AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. Follow a recommended preparation path to earn your certification before AWS re:Invent 2021. Get exam ready with free training, including our new series on Twitch, AWS Power Hour: Architecting. By signing up, you'll also be eligible for a 50% discount voucher for the exam.
This challenge ends December 4, 2021.
Follow the deal link for more details and FAQs
The homepage to access the Twitch series AWS Power Hour: Architecting is https://pages.awscloud.
It contains the links to all the episodes and other resources helpful for learning and preparation.
TIP: Upon successful completion of certification, AWS usually issues a 50% voucher for a future AWS exam. So this challenge is a great way to get the 50% off train rolling from the outset.
https://pages.awscloud.
Get AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Challenge
Join this challenge and set a goal for earning AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. Follow a recommended preparation path to earn your certification before AWS re:Invent 2021. Get exam ready with free training, including our new series on Twitch, AWS Power Hour: Architecting. By signing up, you'll also be eligible for a 50% discount voucher for the exam.
This challenge ends December 4, 2021.
Follow the deal link for more details and FAQs
The homepage to access the Twitch series AWS Power Hour: Architecting is https://pages.awscloud.
It contains the links to all the episodes and other resources helpful for learning and preparation.
TIP: Upon successful completion of certification, AWS usually issues a 50% voucher for a future AWS exam. So this challenge is a great way to get the 50% off train rolling from the outset.
https://pages.awscloud.
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From AWS:
Get AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Challenge
Join this challenge and set a goal for earning AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. Follow a recommended preparation path to earn your certification before AWS re:Invent 2021. Get exam ready with free training, including our new series on Twitch, AWS Power Hour: Architecting. By signing up, you'll also be eligible for a 50% discount voucher for the exam.
This challenge ends December 4, 2021.
Follow the deal link for more details and FAQs
The homepage to access the Twitch series AWS Power Hour: Architecting is https://pages.awscloud.
It contains the links to all the episodes and other resources helpful for learning and preparation.
TIP: Upon successful completion of certification, AWS usually issues a 50% voucher for a future AWS exam. So this challenge is a great way to get the 50% off train rolling from the outset.
https://pages.awscloud.
Get AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Challenge
Join this challenge and set a goal for earning AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. Follow a recommended preparation path to earn your certification before AWS re:Invent 2021. Get exam ready with free training, including our new series on Twitch, AWS Power Hour: Architecting. By signing up, you'll also be eligible for a 50% discount voucher for the exam.
This challenge ends December 4, 2021.
Follow the deal link for more details and FAQs
The homepage to access the Twitch series AWS Power Hour: Architecting is https://pages.awscloud.
It contains the links to all the episodes and other resources helpful for learning and preparation.
TIP: Upon successful completion of certification, AWS usually issues a 50% voucher for a future AWS exam. So this challenge is a great way to get the 50% off train rolling from the outset.
https://pages.awscloud.
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A lot of these types of certs rely on learning lists of facts rather than concepts, and facts tend to quickly change over time whereas concepts generally hold true. A course like this can help an interviewee provide concrete examples of concepts in areas where they have little or no experience. Being able to talk about something even though they haven't worked with it is a really good sign to an interviewer for multiple reasons. A course like this can also help firm up a candidate's knowledge of a technology that they have some experience of but haven't used to its full extent. Too many people have a laundry list of technologies on their resume but an interviewer who spot checks their knowledge on these will often find that their experience is trivial. "I played with it once a while back and I can't remember much about it" is something I've heard of a lot. Meanwhile I'm thinking "why-t-f is it on your resume then?"
tl;dr the primary benefit of a course like this is in expanding your knowledge. If you're the sort of person who needs an exam to focus your attention then taking the certification might be money well spent. Depending on your experience level it may not hurt to have the certification listed on your resume but I would avoid doing so if you aren't beginning your IT career and you don't have professional experience with these technologies.
Personally, I'm going to go thru this course and skip the certification. I have a ton of cloud engineering experience but not so much of it in AWS. It's always good to see how different companies solve the same problems.
And BTW (speaking with my resume screening hat on) one red flag for this specific certification is the "Associate" part in the title. That basically says "Solutions Architect - but not really". No one in their right mind would hire someone to architect a system based on having this cert. If this cert was to be named appropriately it might be "A tour of AWS offerings and a high-level overview of building solutions with them".
Experience trumps all. But the cert can set you apart and open doors.
Experience trumps all. But the cert can set you apart and open doors.
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A lot of these types of certs rely on learning lists of facts rather than concepts, and facts tend to quickly change over time whereas concepts generally hold true. A course like this can help an interviewee provide concrete examples of concepts in areas where they have little or no experience. Being able to talk about something even though they haven't worked with it is a really good sign to an interviewer for multiple reasons. A course like this can also help firm up a candidate's knowledge of a technology that they have some experience of but haven't used to its full extent. Too many people have a laundry list of technologies on their resume but an interviewer who spot checks their knowledge on these will often find that their experience is trivial. "I played with it once a while back and I can't remember much about it" is something I've heard of a lot. Meanwhile I'm thinking "why-t-f is it on your resume then?"
tl;dr the primary benefit of a course like this is in expanding your knowledge. If you're the sort of person who needs an exam to focus your attention then taking the certification might be money well spent. Depending on your experience level it may not hurt to have the certification listed on your resume but I would avoid doing so if you aren't beginning your IT career and you don't have professional experience with these technologies.
Personally, I'm going to go thru this course and skip the certification. I have a ton of cloud engineering experience but not so much of it in AWS. It's always good to see how different companies solve the same problems.
And BTW (speaking with my resume screening hat on) one red flag for this specific certification is the "Associate part in the title....
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In my current field certifications have varying impact. I am currently a power equipment technician...I work with other techs that have over 30 years professional experience band currently hold no certifications. The experience is very important but lacking the certification means you are lacking some training especially on newer items, lacking access to support services and unfamiliar with new products. May not be that case in IT, but where IT changes so fast I would expect everyone is in that boat.
If I get an applicant with the most basic level (associate type cert) from one of the manufacturers that tells me what they know and that they can access and understand the vender/manufacturers systems and processes.
A tech with 30 yes experience who let their recertification lapse 5 years ago, or never completed certs (I have several of those situations working with me) have different skills and and that has to be taken in consideration.
It is very similar to automotive techs with ASE certification and recertification.
In my current field certifications have varying impact. I am currently a power equipment technician...I work with other techs that have over 30 years professional experience band currently hold no certifications. The experience is very important but lacking the certification means you are lacking some training especially on newer items, lacking access to support services and unfamiliar with new products. May not be that case in IT, but where IT changes so fast I would expect everyone is in that boat.
If I get an applicant with the most basic level (associate type cert) from one of the manufacturers that tells me what they know and that they can access and understand the vender/manufacturers systems and processes.
A tech with 30 yes experience who let their recertification lapse 5 years ago, or never completed certs (I have several of those situations working with me) have different skills and and that has to be taken in consideration.
It is very similar to automotive techs with ASE certification and recertification.
For maintainers (IT techs) I believe certification is useful for the reasons you give. But for the designer-builders (software engineers) I look for a lot more than just knowledge of the current technologies and how to plug them together. For those jobs I need someone who can turn often vague requirements into concrete optimal solutions. While knowledge of current technologies is very useful for that, it's just one part of the skillset needed and not the most important one. A good software engineer can quickly find technologies that meet their needs and get them up and running, be they on AWS, Azure, GCP, or wherever. The key thing is that the engineer understands how services operate in the cloud in general.
Disclaimer: I haven't done this course but I've read the intros. My opinions are largely based on IT certifications in general and come from my own past experiences and those of others. Don't take my advice if you are allergic to my advice.
A lot of these types of certs rely on learning lists of facts rather than concepts, and facts tend to quickly change over time whereas concepts generally hold true. A course like this can help an interviewee provide concrete examples of concepts in areas where they have little or no experience. Being able to talk about something even though they haven't worked with it is a really good sign to an interviewer for multiple reasons. A course like this can also help firm up a candidate's knowledge of a technology that they have some experience of but haven't used to its full extent. Too many people have a laundry list of technologies on their resume but an interviewer who spot checks their knowledge on these will often find that their experience is trivial. "I played with it once a while back and I can't remember much about it" is something I've heard of a lot. Meanwhile I'm thinking "why-t-f is it on your resume then?"
tl;dr the primary benefit of a course like this is in expanding your knowledge. If you're the sort of person who needs an exam to focus your attention then taking the certification might be money well spent. Depending on your experience level it may not hurt to have the certification listed on your resume but I would avoid doing so if you aren't beginning your IT career and you don't have professional experience with these technologies.
Personally, I'm going to go thru this course and skip the certification. I have a ton of cloud engineering experience but not so much of it in AWS. It's always good to see how different companies solve the same problems.
And BTW (speaking with my resume screening hat on) one red flag for this specific certification is the "Associate" part in the title. That basically says "Solutions Architect - but not really". No one in their right mind would hire someone to architect a system based on having this cert. If this cert was to be named appropriately it might be "A tour of AWS offerings and a high-level overview of building solutions with them".
I'm not a fan of getting a ton of certs, but this is on that has real world value based on the amount of info you have to have to pass them.
I'm not a fan of getting a ton of certs, but this is on that has real world value based on the amount of info you have to have to pass them.
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