Becoming an AWS Certified Developer in 3 weeks !

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The AWS Developer certification is one of the less difficult associate certification to achieve. It is aimed at making you able to benefit from the main AWS Cloud services to build scalable and resilient applications. If you already have a Solution Architect Associate certification, you can achieve this one in few days. If it is your first certification, here is my path to the success !

My AWS Journey : Developer path



The two first steps are not mandatory but can be helpful if you can have access to those trainings & coachings.

Cloud Academy - AWS Developer Associate Learning Path

After a quick overview, I choose Cloud Academy to prepare myself because even if the price is high (around 40$/month), they offer a strong learning path with comprehensive videos, practice labs, section tests and a final training exam. The learning path estimated time is around 42h but don't be afraid : there is only 12 video sections. The rest is mainly composed of labs that can be achieved very fast. Some of them can be skipped. I spent only 13 hours of time in this path.

Whizlabs - AWS Practice Exams

Once you got an overall knowledge after following the Cloud Academy learning path, you will have to train yourself through practice exams. You'll have to familiarize yourself with the typology of the questions, answers and time management. I recommend Whizlabs because their practice exams are very similar to the real ones. Some of them explore some concepts you may not have seen in the training courses. This is why you should do few practice exams, even if you quickly reach a good score (more than 72%). Personally, I passed through 3 practice exams before registering to the real exam. I succeeded at the first try with 83%.

My advices for the exam

Here is a list of advices that can be very useful the D-Day :

  • When you're not sure to have the good answer(s), try to eliminate the wrong one(s).
  • Try to find the keywords in the question. Ex : questions about Roles or Kinesis are easyly recognizable.
  • Try not to spend more than 2min per question.
  • Don't overthink : there is no trap.
  • Don't stress if you dont have the direct answer to the first questions, the next and last ones will probably be less complicated.
  • Don't preempt your result. I passed 7 exams and 6 times I was pretty sure that I will fail in the middle of the exam. It wasn't the case.

Useful information

Here is a recap of useful information about this certification :
  • Duration : 130min
  • Cost : 150$
  • Number of questions : 65
  • Average passing score : 72%

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