How to Prepare for your next AWS Certification Meetup [Jan 2020]
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The document discusses the growing importance and adoption of cloud technology, forecasting significant job creation and increased demand for AWS certifications due to skill gaps in IT teams. It highlights the benefits of AWS certifications in terms of job security and salary, while also detailing resources and strategies for preparation through platforms like Whizlabs. Additionally, it provides insights into the types of certification exams, costs, and necessary skills for various cloud-related roles.
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How to Prepare for your next AWS Certification Meetup [Jan 2020]
- 2. Cloud is the Future of Computing ● By the end of next decade, almost all our applications will be running on the cloud platform (Source: Forbes). ● Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud Revenue to Grow 17% in 2020 ● IaaS Secures Highest Growth in 2020 Due to Data Center Consolidation ● Amazon Web Services is known primarily as an IaaS (infrastructure as a service)
- 3. Why Cloud Technology is a good career option? ● Exponential growth in the adoption of cloud technology leads to millions of jobs created in cloud space. ● 83% Of Enterprise Workloads Will Be In The Cloud By 2020 (Source: Forbes) ● Upgrading to cloud skills gives you better Job security with your current employer. ● Learn cloud skills to stay with current job trends. Image Source: http://www.virtualtechgurus.com/
- 4. Why AWS Certifications? ● 68% of Information Technology decision makers reported a gap between their teams’ skill levels and the knowledge required to achieve organizational objectives. ● Not to mention, certifications are the credentials that validate the skills of candidates. So, to fill this gap, enterprises have now started looking for certified professionals to meet their organizational objectives. ● So, the demand as well as interest for AWS certifications have been increasing continuously over the time.
- 5. Why AWS Certifications? ● Payout i.e. Salary is one of the most common factor to go for AWS certifications. Reports and surveys have shown a considerable difference between the salary of AWS certified and non-certified professionals. As per Global Knowledge salary report 2019, here is an insight into the AWS certification salary for different roles.
- 6. Whizlabs - An Overview ● Based out of Bangalore, Whizlabs consists of an innovative team of 80+ subject matter experts, certified professionals, and skilled professionals working in different departments. ● With other online certification training courses, we launched our first AWS certification preparation kit in November, 2016 (AWS Solution Architect Associate Practice Questions). ● Since then we’re fully dedicated to provide high quality training content for the AWS as well as other cloud certifications. ● Our long term focus is to improve the quality of our training courses and provide it at the most affordable prices.
- 7. How does Whizlabs help in AWS certification preparation? What is the definitive path for AWS certification preparation? Coverage of exam objectives, hands-on experience, and practice. This is all what we offer to help you get fully prepared for the AWS certifications. Whizlabs offers: ● Online Courses ● Practice Tests ● Hands-on Labs
- 8. Whizlabs Practice Tests ● Whizlabs is known for its practice questions. We offer best in industry practice tests for AWS certification to help candidates get prepared and gain confidence before appearing in the real exam. ● Created by the team of certified professionals and subject matter experts, every question goes through multiple reviews and pass the quality guidelines before they are published on our learning platform. ● Our dedicated experts are always ready to respond to your queries, ensuring that none of your doubts are left unanswered.
- 9. Real Exam-like Environment: Exam Mode & Practice Mode
- 10. Intuitive Exam Simulators: Unique Practice Questions
- 11. Exhaustive Explanation with Every Question
- 12. Advanced Reports: Domain-wise Mark Distribution
- 13. Subject Matter Expert (SME) Support
- 14. Whizlabs Online Courses ● On the success of practice tests, we started receiving requests for online courses; so we started working on video courses for the AWS certifications. ● We offer self-study videos created by our team of subject matter experts and certified professionals. ● Our online self-study training course is completely focused on the objectives of the certification exam and helps you understand all the topics. ● Our online training courses are intended to make you fully prepared with the basic as well as advanced concepts to pass the certification exam.
- 15. Simple, Short, and Easy-to-understandable Videos
- 16. Hands-on Labs ● Hands-on labs give you access to the AWS management console and thus provides real-time experience on AWS platform. ● There are 60 AWS labs in our learning platform. ● The labs are very detailed step-by-step guide on how to perform a real-time task. ● You can perform the lab tasks in Whizlabs provisioned AWS environment. ● The users who have enrolled for Practice Questions or Self-Study Videos have free access to our Labs.
- 17. Choose an AWS lab and start playing
- 18. AWS Meetup - Giveaway!!!
- 19. Q / A
- 20. Tea Break
- 21. Sandip’s Slides
- 22. AWS Certification List & Suggested Experience Level Which Certification to target? Choose it based on your experience and interest. If are you just getting started: If have no prior experience, then target “Cloud Practitioner”. If from developer background, it’s suggested to target “Developer Associate”. If sysadmin background then target “SysOps Administrator” If solution architect background then target “Solutions Architect” (most common). If you are highly experienced in AWS, then go for Professional level certifications or speciality certifications.
- 23. Exam Cost Structure & additional info. . . Certification Exam Cost Questions Duration Cloud Practitioner 100 USD 55 -60 90 minutes Solutions Architect – Associate 150 USD 55 -60 130 minutes Developer – Associate 150 USD 55 -60 130 minutes SysOps Administrator – Associate 150 USD 55 -60 130 minutes Solutions Architect – Professional 300 USD 75 -80 170 minutes DevOps Engineer – Professional 300 USD 75 -80 170 Minutes Big Data – Specialty 300 USD 75-80 170 Minutes Advanced Networking – Specialty 300 USD 75-80 170 Minutes Security – Specialty 300 USD 75-80 170 Minutes ** After passing any exam every time, you will get 50% discount code ** Certificate Valid for 3 years
- 24. Courses / Learning resources (Free / Paid) . . Free Paid AWS Training AWS YouTube Channel & there are more free resources available in YouTube from AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2020 - Full Course AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Training 2019 - Full Course Intellipaat YouTube Channel , Edureka YouTube Channel, Knowledge India YouTube Channel https://www.whizlabs.com/aws-certifications/ Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/user/stephane-maarek/ https://www.udemy.com/user/backspace-academy/ https://www.udemy.com/user/63f4a578-c67a-456b-916c-dda df73e9a26/ https://acloud.guru/ https://linuxacademy.com/ Note: A Cloud guru & Linux Academy going to get merged from mid of these year, so any of one subscription will give access courses in both sites.
- 25. Study Plan For Busy Professionals & Preparation suggestions For working professionals it’s become quite difficult to maintain a daily job and study for any certification courses. Here are the pro tips for busy professionals for study and preparation 1) The most effective way is to dedicate study time and stick with it. Daily 1-2 hour dedication according to the course length would be highly beneficial. 2) Theoretical knowledge will be not enough to pass certification or getting future opportunities, it’s highly suggested to apply/try out what you are learning , so hands on knowledge will give you advantage not only thinking process and answering scenario based questions but to perform live project tasks in job. 3) Try to make mental model of something that you are learning and when using a particular service how other services can be used together, scenario based questions mostly will be based on how you will use multiple services combined to make a solution. 4) After going through different courses and hands on, it’s highly suggested to test your knowledge / understanding via practice tests, for this widely popular is Whizlabs practice tests, it provide real exam like situations and scenario based questions so that in exam centre you will be very comfortable to give test.
- 26. What Opportunities Available For Certified Professionals ? There are multiple opportunities available for certified professionals based on role and here are the top opportunities list: Cloud Application Architect Cloud Application Developer Big Data Engineer Big Data Solutions Architect Cloud Engineer Cloud Infrastructure Architect Cloud Systems Administrator Data Engineer Data Scientist DevOps Architect DevOps Engineer Pre-Sales Architect Site Reliability Engineer Check Jefferson Frank independent study on salary survey to know salary level for such positions . What AWS products used most. What additional tools and skills required as per survey and many more such important informations.
- 27. How to get job / target opportunity after getting certified 1) AWS Certified professionals are preferred and even sometime it’s mandatory to have certification when applying for AWS related opportunities. After getting certified, share in official certification groups and social networks e.g. linkedin and twitter to gain visibility, recruiters reach out if they see such posts and have opportunities available. 2) Try to implement and make samples of what you have learned during certification, it will be highly helpful when clients/recruiters asks for demo. 3) Most opportunities are role based, so if it’s a developer opportunity then Developer Associate and DevOps Professional will be preferred, if it’s a Cloud Solutions Architect opportunity then Solution Architect Associate and Professional will be preferred, so choose proper certification based on your background and utilize when applying for opportunities.
- 28. Additional Skills hot on demand Below are the most demanding skills for Cloud Architects & DevOps professionals Docker: It is a tool designed to make it easier to create, deploy, and run applications by using containers. Containers allow a developer to package up an application with all of the parts it needs, such as libraries and other dependencies, and ship it all out as one package. Kubernetes: Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Ansible: It is an open source automation platform. Ansible can help you with configuration management, application deployment, task automation. It can also do IT orchestration, where you have to run tasks in sequence and create a chain of events which must happen on several different servers or devices Terraform: It’s is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions. Configuration files describe to Terraform the components needed to run a single application or your entire datacenter. Jenkins: Jenkins is an open source automation tool written in Java with plugins built for Continuous Integration purpose. Jenkins is used to build and test your software projects continuously making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project, and making it easier for users to obtain a fresh build. Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project.
- 29. Q / A
- 30. Dhaval’s Slides
- 31. Start with the Basics ● Focus on the Foundation Layer ○ VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, S3, etc ● Every level has something new to learn ○ DevOps ○ Alexa ○ Machine Learning ● You may or may not know everything ○ There are 170+ major services in AWS, it’s like an Operating System
- 32. Fail Fast / Learn Fast ● Give a lot of time to hands-on exercise ● Read side materials
- 33. Follow Docs not Dumps ● Use Documentations instead of googling dumps everyday ● Cloud Services keep on changing frequently, following docs keep you updated
- 34. If you Pass, that’s just Day 0 ● These exams are like Collage Exams, the real journey start after passing the exam ● Find ways to continue work on the services ● Remember, the certification lasts for only 3 years, so make the most out of it
- 35. Yes I have done 11 AWS Certifications ● But that’s Yesterday now ● Focus on how you can utilize the learnings ● You don’t need to do ALL ● Find ways to share your knowledge, and continue learning
- 36. Becoming AWS Certified will get me hired!! Rather than think of AWS certifications as a "guaranteed job", think in terms of them increasing your odds. Here's two cases where they increase your chances of getting a job (and increase your potential earning power) ● Many companies looks for Certified people in addition to basic skills ● AWS Partner companies get addtional incentives to hire Certified people, this adds value in their portfolio as well
- 37. Q / A
- 38. Thank You!
- 39. Resources ● https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/awscertified-challe nge-free-path-aws-cloud-certifications/ ● https://whizlabs.com ● https://aws.amazon.com/new/ ● https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/