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@@damienjburks Tanx for the reply. I have a doubt. I just completed AWS SAA of stephenes course. And also checking out Serverless part of his developer associate course. I find that, it wil not b adequate for AWS Developer- DevOps job roles. Can u suggest any specific AWS Serverless course for me to get a grip on?
@@manojkumar-jt3fw You'll actually want to do some labs and build a portfolio. I recommend you use Whizlabs for this; more courses won't prepare you for a job. You'll need to get hands-on experience by practicing.
I'm an SAP Security Architect. I've been looking to obtain certifications in solutions that we often integrate with (like AWS). Just last Thursday, I passed my Solutions Architect - Associate exam. I'm now working towards obtaining this certification. I leveraged both Stephan Maarek on Udemy and Tutorials Dojo for that cert, as well.
Thanks a lot for this. Company is flipping the bill for several different certs. This is the one I want but will start with your prerequisite recommendation since they will pay for that too💰
Perfect timing Damien! I’m also preparing for the SA exam and luckily I got Stephane Maarek course on sale! Time to prepare and ace 💃 it was great meeting you at the AWS reinforce conference last week 😊
Awesome! Glad you caught that sale! His course is the BEST! ☺️ With this information, I am most certain you’ll pass! It was nice to meet you as well. Let’s stay connected and happy studying! 📚 💜
Appreciate this one. I need to get one of these certs either the AWS one or Azure one. My biggest issue is I feel I would use up all my free resources trying to train on this and have to pay the moment I try to use these services on a fareal personal project.
No problem bro! Appreciate the support! 😄 Cost is always the problem in a lot of cases. The good thing about AWS is that their free tier accounts do cover a wide range of services to help eliminate the cost of PoCs and personal projects; I'd recommend starting with them first. I definitely believe it's very hard to pay for usage IF you terminate your resources after you use them. Don't leave your EC2 instances running for a month lol - you'll quickly pass the free tier limit. I haven't dived deeply into other CSPs much so I can't provide much advice.
@@damienjburks Thanks! That worked! The only thing I did differently was that I mounted my local directory that contained the context file with the container instead of copying it into the container.
Hello, Sebas here, I am also for DevOps. I had some questions, why not recommend the SysOps Admin certification? I was listening carefully to the services you recommended to study a little more, and I dealt with most of them in SysOps, to face DevOps, wouldn't SysOps or Dev be more appropriate?🤔
Hello Sebas! First off, thanks for watching the video and your support! 😄🤗 To answer the first part of your question: So I've heard some folks recommend that you take the SysOps Administrator before you sit for this exam since some of the services you encounter would be featured on the exam. Also, I haven't taken the SysOps Administrator, which is part of the reason why I did not mention that in my video. I have taken both the Solutions Architect and Developer Associate exams, and I did see a bit of overlap in featured services! To answer the second part of your question: I personally believe the Developer Associate is more appropriate due to my testing experience. Most of the services from the Developer Associate were featured on this exam and that foundational knowledge will come in handy.
I think this is one of those situations where it depends on the person taking the exam. For me, I have a large developer background and some AWS experience. But my system administration experience is far less. So I’m thinking I need to spend more time on the systems certification courses to do better on the exam. How I would diagnose this is take the sample test and based on the sample tests look at the items that you’re getting wrong and research what domain they are from: developer, systems ops, architecture. then yeah you should take those courses, read articles, dojo, etc.
Thanks for your honesty about how much time you spent to prepare. So many people pass and then say they didn’t study or put as many hours in to preparation as they actually did. I think it’s important to let people know how much time they need to commit as well as the study materials used so that they are prepared and have the best chance of passing the exam.
Good info Damien. Considering that I have taken this exam, and passed, every bit of information is spot on. Having either version of the Solutions Architect will definitely be an asset, foundational as well as advanced knowledge will help you with this exam. One bit about Stephane’s course, my recommendation would be to supplement some of the services listed at the end with the official white papers. There are a few rabbit holes you will need to go down (KMS, Config, GuardDuty and Network Security(surprisingly, my exam was HEAVY on VPC security.)) Good stuff!
Thanks for sharing your experiences with taking this certification. I have three AWS associate-level certifications and plan to take this new one next month. Hello from Brazil.
great advice! Very clear. I appreciate you list specific resources and *why* they help complete the Security Specialty exam. I'm working with an enterprise right now and will check if this will help my client. Thanks! Subscribed.
Great tips! I'm planning to pass this exam in the near future. Although I really like stephane, his DOP course didn't dive deep enough into the level of detail required by this exam...
Thank you! You will definitely pass this exam… in fact, you will ace it! 🙌🏽🙌🏽 If Stephane’s course didn’t help, I’d recommend Adrian or ACG as an alternative. Also, it would be wise to leverage TutorialsDojo as much as possible to help fill those gaps in knowledge. ☺️ You got this! 💪🏾🔥
Hey Congrats man and Yes Stephanne is an awesome instructor. Im working on Azure now but when I get ready for AWS again gonna use his material. Good luck, love hearing good news like this. Inspiring.
very useful tips!! I will definitely go to the test center to take the exam, that was something I was always thinking too, maybe I had to hear it from you!!
So glad you found it useful! Testing centers, I believe, are much better testing environments - especially if you have too many distractions at home in the office 😉
Just a quick tip bro ... Appreciate the content and efforts... Best if you skip the intro music and logo, etc. ... Everyone these days just wants to get to the point and bounce... Thanks again.
It’s all good! Here is the course that I’d recommend you purchase to learn Python! www.udemy.com/course/complete-python-bootcamp/ Udemy is good for having sales, so I’d recommend you wait until a sale comes up and then purchase it for a cheap price! If you want an alternative, SoloLearn and Codecademy are also good places as well.
There are two tools that I’d recommend you get started with: 1. OpenSCAP - auditing and compliance based on SCAP (Security Control Automation Protocol) standards 2. SCAT (Security Compliance Automation Tool) - another compliance tool with a broader scope Both of these can be integrated easily with Ansible. Also, make sure you’re leveraging the Ansible Hardening role to harden all of your resources when you’re creating or updating your playbooks.
I believe that TM is pivotal when we are shifting left, ideally in the real of cybersecurity as a whole. When the design requirements are drafted prior to implementation, TM’ers need to be in included in that discussion prior to implementation. This is all a part of the SSDLC.
Yes! I believe Python is better than Java in a lot of ways with the EXCEPTION, and I do mean exception, of dependency management. Java's dependency management is LIGHT-YEARS ahead of Python's, and it's so much easier and better to use. Especially when it comes to tracking those dependencies and updating them without the need for virtual environments. (speaking from experience with both languages)
@@damienjburks You're welcome by the way I'm saying because I'm a video editor and daily consumer of videos of RU-vid. I can help you with editing if you want...
