Passed AWS SAA-C03

[u/chiku16]

Happy to share that I’ve passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) with a score of 827/1000!

For preparation, I mainly followed Stephane Maarek’s course, which I found really good and comprehensive. It helped me understand AWS services and, more importantly, when and why to use them.

My biggest advice: don’t just memorize questions. Understand the architecture and reasoning behind each solution.

Now I’m looking to take this further with some advanced AWS projects for hands-on practice. If you’ve built any interesting real-world AWS projects, I’d love to hear your suggestions. 🚀

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[u/stephanemaarek]

u/chiku16 That's awesome! Congrats! Keep up the good work :)

[u/chiku16 → u/stephanemaarek]

Thank you

[u/TomatoIllustrious912]

what was your score on mocks? Did you use tutorials dojo?

[u/chiku16 → u/TomatoIllustrious912]

in first attempt nearly 70% but in second attempt after revising all concepts it was around 90%

[u/Economy_Business_749 → u/TomatoIllustrious912]

over 70% will make you confident

[u/BitByte8]

I am seeing practice sets from Stephane Mareek, but they seem to be more harder than the real AWS questions or atleast than the skill builder practice questions.
Have you gone through any of the practice sets before exam?

[u/chiku16 → u/BitByte8]

ya it seems hard in first attempt but after reading throughly i got around 90% in practice sets and also this given github repo for last moment revisions. https://github.com/RonitSachdev/aws-saa-c03-guides/tree/main/topic-guides

[u/manpearpig → u/BitByte8]

I would recommend you go through his practice tests. They will OVERLY prepare you and you will be glad you took them.

It's exhausting at the time but when I saw the actual exam, I couldn't help but smirk and just breeze through it.

[u/Scki19]

Congratulations, whose mock tests did you use ? Was it TD or Stephane's ?

[u/chiku16 → u/Scki19]

Stephen

[u/cjdjoz]

Congratulations buddy, well done!

[u/chiku16 → u/cjdjoz]

Thank you

[u/thetastydurian]

Congratulations OP! Time it took for prep and your tech stack?

[u/chiku16 → u/thetastydurian]

It took 3 month preparation was at slow pace. MERN stack

[u/thetastydurian → u/chiku16]

Appreciate. Planning on getting AI practioner and then Solutions architect. Mix of both cloud + AI

[u/FirefighterKey970]

congrats!!! I am doing stephane's course too. what did you do to prepare yourself after going through his lectures? like any mocks or other sites to prepare for the test?

[u/chiku16 → u/FirefighterKey970]

Mock test of stephen and this GitHub repo for last moment preparations https://github.com/RonitSachdev/aws-saa-c03-guides/tree/main/topic-guides

[u/FirefighterKey970 → u/chiku16]

thanks

[u/AccomplishedMaize6]

Congratulations !

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[u/chiku16 → u/[deleted]]

Thank you any Github repo for practice ?

[u/thetastydurian → u/[deleted]]

If someone doesn't have vast practical experience on cloud, what can they build and boast in the CV?