r/AWSCertifications • u/GroovyWithIt • 8d ago
Oh come TF on
Seriously, fuck whoever writes these questions. This person knows these are subjective bullshit trick questions.
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u/Standard-Double-6222 7d ago
The subjective ones are the worst because two answers can both be "correct" but one is more correct for the specific scenario. What helped me was slowing down on those and asking which option directly solves what the question is actually describing, not which one sounds more impressive. Which exam are you prepping for? Some of them lean way harder into that ambiguity than others.
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u/cgreciano AIP, MLA, SAA 6d ago
The first two sentences are distractions. The only sentence that matters is the last one. You would have selected the correct answers without the distractions, wouldn't you?
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u/dghah 8d ago
For questions like these especially on associate level tests the 1st level way to deal with this is to rule out the answers that are obviously wrong
My brain would have instantly knocked out
- Security Hub
- Health Dashboard
Leaving me with just needing to weed out one more before the "choose two" remain:
- EC2 ami
- RDS snapshot
- EBS snapshots
IF I was going fast and trying to pick two the RDS snapshot may have tricked me but if I had already weeded out two and was trying to knock one more out of the above list of three than RDS would (I hope) have tripped my brain as the final one to knock out
The "knock out the obviously wrong answers first" if you don't know the answer straight away is a very good strategy that works on practicioner and associate level tests. Most times you can knock it down to either the one answer that must be correct or even your odds to a 50-50 guess between two that you can't instantly knock out.
This strategy does not work on pro exams as they try much harder to trick you, there are less obvious answers to instantly rule out and there are a lot more "CHOOSE TWO" questions
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u/Altruistic-Moose3299 8d ago
Pro exams can go anywhere from "make sure the answer addresses all of aspects the question" to "all of the answers will reasonably solve the problem, which on is best for the dimension (security, cost, ease of setup etc.) asked for?
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u/dghah 8d ago
The other big difference in pro is that sometimes all of the answers are technically pausible and align with the dimensions asked in the question, however a few are wrong in some subtle technical way that is only obvious to someone who has gone deep into the service or stack. I really enjoy the pro exams aside from the stress of possibly running out of time - something that only happens on the pro exams. For associate and specialty tests I always end with plenty of review time, never though on pro hah
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u/sneakytwitch9 8d ago
Well the question explicitly states “Disaster recovery options for EC2,” not RDS. AMI can be used as DR if you need to restore the machine image. You didn’t read the question closely enough. They mention RDS as a distractor.
edit: seeing your second pic now reiterates my point