- We have somebody who is a
system administrator currently and they want to know
which approach they should take to get AWS certified.
Should they start with the solutions architect
or the sysops associate?
You guys are certified in both.
What do you guys think as a system administrator?
Which one is a good starting point?
- [Participant] I always like to say you can correct me
if you don't agree, I always like to recommend people
to start with the Solutions Architect certification
because then to get certified in the other certification
will be much easier because the solutions architect
covers as a broad overview of all services
and it will cover very well how to really architect
and solution using the best practices.
And cost effective solutions.
So that's really a great starting point
and the SysOps exam is by far the toughest exam
of all the associate ones.
And I will say now, it is the toughest exam I ever took.
So its a long journey to achieve the SysOps certification.
You need to have a lot of hands-on practice.
And might be frustrating to start with that particular
certification because sometimes who haven't ever failed
in exam, it sucks.
Its a day that you finish the exam
and you see the result in the screen
and you fail and everything else sucks.
You just want to go to your house
and buy a big bucket of ice cream, eat some chocolates
so that might be frustrating
and you may end up not motivated enough to keep trying
to achieve the certification.
So I think that would be halfway taking the
Solutions Architect and then the other halfway
taking the SysOps.
- [Participant] I totally agree with you Eric.
Like you say, it would be great to have a good
understanding of services across the board
and how they kind of interact with each other
before looking at SysOps exam because what we discussed
earlier, that kind of digs deeper into each service
and at a deeper level than the Solutions Architect does.
So to have that broader knowledge first
I think it certainly helps when trying to get the SysOps
especially when it comes to troubleshooting.
Although that current role is more guided to the SysOps,
as an approach to the certification, I would recommend
the Solutions Architect first
and then the systems operations.
- [Participant] I completely agree.
- [Eric] I would say even more if you really want the
SysOps after the solutions architect,
check the developer one because that will also help you
taking getting the SysOps certification
because in the developer one, you will be aware of things
such as managing sessions when you are using
outer scaling beehive and the OB
and will be also another small step
to the SysOps certification.
- [Participant] There's definitely overlap between the
certifications as well because when I was preparing for
my solutions architect, I looked at the sample questions
across all three associate systems
because if you look on the AWS website
they give you a few sample questions for each exam.
And in my actual Solutions Architect associate exam,
I got a couple of questions from each area
that were on the sample exams online.
So its well worth having to look at all three
because there's definitely overlap between the three.