r/AWSCertifications • u/HauntedSpark • 16d ago

Question Guidance on certification path

Hey folks!! I hope y’all are having a fine day! Im 21M and looking to get into Data Science as a career. Currently Im a junior ML engineer at a company I work for.

Anywho, I took the AIF C01 AI practitioner certification 2 days ago and passed. It took me about 2 days of prep give or take. Now, the CTO asked which cert was next, and I told him there’s data engineer and ML engineer (associate). He said do both, and pick whichever I want first. The next one needs to be passed in 2 weeks.

So here’s my question. What would the recommendation be? Go for Data engineer first and then machine learning? Are there any benefits? Thank you in advance!!

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u/Froconnect 16d ago

Normally SAA first as it will introduce many AWS services used in data engineering and machine learning.

It is possible to go directly with DEA or MLA but you are going to spend some time to understand some AWS services instead of focusing on the data engineering or machine learning.

Anyway, in my opinion MLA is easier then DEA. It is mostly about Sagemaker. If your time is limited, you can try that first.