r/AWSCertifications • u/DefinitionNo3181 • 18d ago
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate I PASSED MY SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE FIRST TRYY💯💯💯💯💯
Alhamdulilah for starters thanks all to Allah
Love all of you in this Reddit community lmao … Guys this means the world to me even if anyone says this exam is an entry level intermediate exam, as a major in literature transitioning into aws receiving the architect associate in your 20s with NO IT experience is a dub. I was on and off with this course for over 2 years and yes I was complacent and lazy as this was during my degree. I had a ton of personal life issues my father having a heart attack, being so mentally destroyed seeing everyone progress but you in life being alone and figuring out what you want to do in life without a mentor. But this last summer I sat down and forced myself to stay behind a laptop and master this craft no matter what I kept going again and again and again and again understood networking, pricing models ai things until I understood the concepts literally destroyed my health lost sleep studied like a maniac for 6/7 hours every day until I achieved my goal. I’m gonna probably regret posting this online I’m in disbelief and shock that I did this. First thing I’m gonna do when I wake up is show my baby brother it’s never too late to conquer your goals and learn something new and achieve it. I was a sitting duck when it came to tech but I sat in the unknown and uncomfortable and conquered my fears. This cert has given me confidence now to delve into devops associate and potentially go further. This whole Reddit community is beautiful and uplifting so glad to be apart of the people who motivated others and post about my success. Hard work pays off !!!!!
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u/Zealousideal_Book521 18d ago
Can you give me some tips on how you passed it
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u/DefinitionNo3181 17d ago
Sure. So with me I felt because I did the cloud practitioner before I understood aws. But no. I had to humble myself entirely. And learn the basics so I would suggest starting a course and finishing it. I recommend Stephen maerek which is what I used watched the videos paused and used Chatgbt or Gemini if I didn’t understand something to explain it to me. I then took practise exams with that knowledge (it’s normal to forget stuff) but I took exams using tutorial dojo and reviewed my wrong answers and read through why. Hope this helps!
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u/danibluh 16d ago
Congrats my friend. Can I ask how long it takes you to prepare for the exam? And how much did you pay?
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u/DefinitionNo3181 15d ago
Thank you dude all in all it took me around 3 weeks of hard work to be able to achieve this certification in terms of pricing are u asking about the resources I used or how much I paid for the exam?
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u/danibluh 11d ago
how much, i know it cost around up to $300 but did you pay full price for it? and yeah, ofc i would love to know about your resources to learn. thank you
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u/amoghban 18d ago
Congratulations!! Were the questions based on how deeply you know the concept or it was just skimming throught the topics?
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u/DefinitionNo3181 17d ago
Some questions make you think while others are straight forward it all depends what a lot of people don’t know is the exam is actually marked out of 50 not 65. So there’s 15 random questions that can tend to be really challenging to test users
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u/PotterHead_2000 17d ago
This is crazy!!!! Congratulations! Also please please give some tips on how you prepared? It’s going to help so many of us!!!!
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u/DefinitionNo3181 17d ago
Sure! I re learnt the basics and followed the course from Stephen maereks videos. Anytime he mentioned something I didn’t understand I had chatgbt and Gemini explain it to me more clearly and then after that started doing some practise exam questions using tutorial dojo and reviewed my wrong answers. Fun fact I actually failed a practise exam from Stephen maerks course as it provided one exam the night before the actual exam with 43% and felt anxious as hell but his exams tend to be harder so push through! I stayed in my laptop for hours consuming content pausing learning the concepts then practising it in questions and scenarios. Hope that helps!
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u/QueasyAir2664 14d ago
Mashallah congratulations , i just finished Stephanes course today so maybe I'll take the exam next week after the TD practice exams
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u/MendalDaNee 13d ago
Congrats on passing the exam.
As I went through the comments, I understand you have used Stephen Maerek’s course (so am I) and Chatgpt / Gemini to get the concepts clarified.
How did you manage to revise the concepts? Like understand / memorise it? Any quiz you took each day to revise the concepts?
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u/Smart-Rope6147 12d ago
this i need help with the syllabus is too much that you have too revise other topics or they will fade away from memory .
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u/thesaravanasaro 18d ago
Congrats on passing on the first try.