What it takes to pass the AWS Certified DevOps engineer — professional exam

After my friend passed the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional Certification test on the second try with a 90 percent score, he felt it would be helpful to share his course of study and the faults he made that the very first time so you might avoid them.

To pass the exam, you must be well-versed in a wide range of topics.

Numerous blog articles and forums have been written on the professional test, and many training videos, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional 2019 or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional Level, are accessible online for study (the last one worked better for me). They are all fantastic resources to utilize for studying and learning new skills.

So go ahead and continue to keep reading them all; it’s critical to perform all of the hands-on exercises they give. They are required to take at least one of these programs to prepare you for the test, but not sufficient to pass it. That is exactly what I did, and it was insufficient. So I think what he is attempting to convey here is how to fill in the gaps.

After taking the exam twice, My friend understood that it is supposed to judge not only your knowledge of AWS cloud services, as well as your capacity to help formulate a massively scalable, available, fault-tolerant, and self-healing system, but it is also intended to evaluate your cloud activeness.

This means that the test is long and exhausting (3 to 3.5 hours), with 75 sets of circumstances and problem-based problems with lengthy responses that all appear to be accurate. After 35–40 questions, your brain begins to meltdown and it hurts to think and evaluate, leaving you with the sole choice of utilizing your intuitive senses to remove the answers that are least be consistent until you are left with the final proper answer that meets all of the requirements of the question.

To do so, you must be as comfortable with AWS as a fish in the sea, i.e. a cloud-native. Even if you have prior experience working with AWS, even if it is 2 years or more in many situations, you will not have the opportunity to work with all of the services required to pass the test, at least not in-depth. Most of the time, the set of services you utilize at the business level is restricted, and even more so at the team level.

So I planned to take a simple (nearly) hello-world program and turn it into a multi-region self-healing app with disaster recovery capabilities. You’ll need two AWS accounts, and you should expect to pay around $100 after all of your trials.

Even if you already have an account, I urge that you establish two new ones. A new account comes with a plethora of free tiers.