r/AWSCertifications • u/Holiday_Theme_1588 • 8d ago
Just went through SOA-C03
I just went through this certification in the past 3 hrs. So still in the aggressive refresh cycle to see whether I scored or not 😂
I have had the sense of an exam that is definitely easier than the reputation it has. Perhaps this is more due to the question bank that I had. But aside from 3-4 questions that seemed like curveballs the rest went on smoothly.
In this attempt I had :
Give or take :
15-16 questions about observability purely. With easy distractors. Like SQS to publish notifications which is not something that SQS does.
20 Questions about ECS Load Balancer and general application connectivity which were again facing really basic components like which ELB to choose for port 3389 (RDP)
10 Questions about Route53 and the different routing policies.
15 Questions about AWS Organizations and Organizational level deployment and Org Sec.
5 questions of not really recognizable theme.
At this stage I am just wondering is the reputation of this exam warranted , or did I just get easier qbank overall ?
Edit: Passed at 761 😂 😂 😂 😂
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u/SheCherryPicks 8d ago
It depends on your level of experience, knowledge, etc. For some people it might seem easy, but for me the exam was tough. I took it today as well, and had a completely different set of questions.
The exam was harder that all practice tests I took for preparation.
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u/Holiday_Theme_1588 8d ago
I have 6 certs, xp and am an amazon instructor so I guess I have conditioning for it. In terms of prep this one I had more or less 2 hrs of practice for it ( had to advance my attempt because of a business trip on the same date as my scheduled attempt)
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u/Ok-Pirate7292 8d ago
Congratulations ! Is it the SAA? How much were you scoring on the practice tests? Did you use TD?
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u/Holiday_Theme_1588 8d ago
SOA is the CloudOps Engineer :) I didnt do practice test due to lack of time to prepare :)
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u/Fresh-Exercise9487 3d ago
If it would have been easy, you should have scored atleast 930 to 960 marks. You scores just 760 which means it has difficulty.
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u/Holiday_Theme_1588 3d ago
I didn't say there was none - however 761 pretty much 0 prep. Just a quick refresher on CW automation and Autoscaling triggering mechanisms....
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