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post 1664547393 07-17-2022, 02:12 PM
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Passed my AWS solutions architect - associate

Poverty reps till I’m out. Think I’m going to go straight for professional cert instead of the developer or SysOps one.

Still need to learn Python as I see a lot of companies are requiring coding exp for the higher end engineer roles.
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Originally Posted By lnvictus⏩
Sysops one is harder than associates. But it does give you a good technical overview of the infrastructure
Yeah that’s what I’ve heard because it has some actual “hands on” questions. I’ll get the cert eventually. My path is going to be

SA Professional -> advanced networking -> developer -> sysops
post 1664549383 07-17-2022, 02:47 PM
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How hard is chit like this if you can code to an OK level in Python already?
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post 1664549773 07-17-2022, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted By zknarc⏩
How hard is chit like this if you can code to an OK level in Python already?
The SA - associate didn’t really have anything code related, closest thing was when to use a REST API and what tool. It’s really tailored to understanding basic networking, security and architecture.
post 1664549813 07-17-2022, 02:54 PM
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+1 on the straight to Professional SA cert. If you pass that, you could probably sit the Security Specialty right after and pass it, as well as the Developer - Associate and pass it.
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congrats, what exactly do you as a AWS solutions architect?

I keep seeing this Amazon AWS solution architect job but have no idea what is expected or what the job consists of. Saw some SWE even claim that Solution Architects arent even real tech since they arent coding, but whats up?
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Sometimes I wonder if getting something more vendor specific like AWS/Azure/Cisco is a good way to go. So far I've just gone through CompTIA security certs, Sec+, CySA+, CASP+. Next up will be the ISC^2 CISSP. Everything I've just mentioned is vendor neutral and the material is answering questions / simulations that are semi-med level or high level applications of concepts. You get those certs, it doesn't matter too much your education, your work experience, or prior salary, $100k+ jobs start coming to you. Just talking about security related jobs in general though.
post 1664566563 07-17-2022, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted By Visel⏩
Sometimes I wonder if getting something more vendor specific like AWS/Azure/Cisco is a good way to go. So far I've just gone through CompTIA security certs, Sec+, CySA+, CASP+. Next up will be the ISC^2 CISSP. Everything I've just mentioned is vendor neutral and the material is answering questions / simulations that are semi-med level or high level applications of concepts. You get those certs, it doesn't matter too much your education, your work experience, or prior salary, $100k+ jobs start coming to you. Just talking about security related jobs in general though.
AWS SA cert is freakin awesome. You learn a whole lot of vendor-neutral cloud knowledge even though its a vendor-specific cert srs

I barely remember anything from my CCSK but my AWS SA knowledge stuck with me much more

With these vendor-neutral certs, most of the time youre wondering how this stuff applies in real life. A vendor-specific cert is basically vendor-neutral + here’s an actual concrete example of what we’re talking about

All of my other certs are vendor neutral (cissp, ccsk, crisc, cisa, sec+, net+) and i dont think any taught me as well as AWS SA
post 1664566623 07-17-2022, 09:38 PM
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How much does this pay OP
post 1664569523 07-17-2022, 11:35 PM
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Congrats OP. Keep on going. Good job.
post 1664573263 07-18-2022, 03:50 AM
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interested, what would this AWS solutions architect - associate

pay and is it entry level?
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Sitting for mine next month, probably going to do architect after that.

Snowflake/SQL>Python>Pandas>Matplotlib/Plotly/Dash crew checking in. All of our data ingestion is S3 buckets, and Lambdas with EC2 instances.

OP do you have any real world experience or are you looking to get in the door?
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Originally Posted By MrBourbon⏩
Sitting for mine next month, probably going to do architect after that.

Snowflake/SQL>Python>Pandas>Matplotlib/Plotly/Dash crew checking in. All of our data ingestion is S3 buckets, and Lambdas with EC2 instances.

OP do you have any real world experience or are you looking to get in the door?
I have some real world experience, but the company I’m at now has chit architecture and refuses to change (small company), so I mainly got it as something to put on my resume as I job hunt.
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post 1664659473 07-19-2022, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted By Beast92⏩
congrats, what exactly do you as a AWS solutions architect?

I keep seeing this Amazon AWS solution architect job but have no idea what is expected or what the job consists of. Saw some SWE even claim that Solution Architects arent even real tech since they arent coding, but whats up?
I’m not a solutions architect, but rather DevOps engineer. I just want to be AWS certified because I enjoy working with it. Invictus answered the question quite well, but ultimately they are in charge of creating (and sometimes managing/maintaining) a company’s cloud infrastructure.

For the company I’m at now, if I was the SA, I would weigh the pros/cons of AWS tools (like RDS w/ MySQL vs Aurora), costs, necessary high availability measures, etc.

We don’t have onprem stuff but that’s another big SA job of integrating with it into the cloud.

Typically they are heavily involved with IT stuff as a whole (server, networking, db, etc) and also business facing, in the sense they may tell stakeholders we should use X tool because of Y,Z reasons.

They may do some coding if working with lambda or APIs, but nothing major. That usually falls to engineers or devs
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Originally Posted By lnvictus⏩
Just imagine opening your own Cloud consulting firm. Das fuking it man..
I dunno if I’d have the patience to work with some clients, but the dream would just be building and improving cloud architecture.
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post 1687419043 07-29-2023, 01:35 PM
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Mirin the 1 year bump on my thread. Just to provide some more info, this was my first IT cert.

I then passed the following:

- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate (not worth it)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
- AWS Certified Developer Associate
- Certified Kubernetes Adminstrator
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer


When on a pretty bring spree of getting IT certs. A lot of overlap though so it wasn’t too difficult.

Edit: still haven’t learned Python really but dove into Kubernetes pretty heavily
post 1687419143 07-29-2023, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted By SkeetAndNEET⏩
Should I do this?
I think the AWS Certified Developer is better. It seems to be more respected and pretty much everything you learn in there you will almost certainly use.
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Originally Posted By Xerve⏩
Mirin the 1 year bump on my thread. Just to provide some more info, this was my first IT cert.

I then passed the following:

- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate (not worth it)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
- AWS Certified Developer Associate
- Certified Kubernetes Adminstrator
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer


When on a pretty bring spree of getting IT certs. A lot of overlap though so it wasn’t too difficult.
what job experience did you have? What are you working in now and how much you making? I’m looking for a career change
post 1687419783 07-29-2023, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted By SkeetAndNEET⏩
what job experience did you have? What are you working in now and how much you making? I’m looking for a career change
Most of my experience is with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Linux. I have worked with a lot of other technologies, but I don’t know them all that well.

Just got a new job that is working with onprem, but it will be OpenShift (and Kubernetes), Linux, Ansible. So quite a bit different than what I was doing. Pay is $125k base, but they offer really good benefits imo.
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Originally Posted By Xerve⏩
Most of my experience is with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Linux. I have worked with a lot of other technologies, but I don’t know them all that well.

Just got a new job that is working with onprem, but it will be OpenShift (and Kubernetes), Linux, Ansible. So quite a bit different than what I was doing. Pay is $125k base, but they offer really good benefits imo.
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Originally Posted By Xerve⏩
Most of my experience is with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Linux. I have worked with a lot of other technologies, but I don’t know them all that well.

Just got a new job that is working with onprem, but it will be OpenShift (and Kubernetes), Linux, Ansible. So quite a bit different than what I was doing. Pay is $125k base, but they offer really good benefits imo.
What's the best way to start learning about AWS stuff?
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post 1687427983 07-29-2023, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted By THE-BEEF⏩
What's the best way to start learning about AWS stuff?
For AWS I recommend courses by Stephane Maarek on Udemy. I've watched many courses by him and honestly he's the GOAT. He keeps courses concise and doesn't include a lot of fluff, courses are updated regularly, and you can easily find them on sale for like $12.99
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