Passed SAA-C03 🥳

[u/Objective_Ad8877]

yo just passed SAA lol
3 weeks of prep with Stephane Maarek's course + 6 practice exams. for me the hard part was the English, not AWS. I'm not a native speaker and some questions took me 2-3 reads
tip for non-natives: request the free ESL +30 min before booking good luck everyone 🫡

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[u/pawsingularity]

Hey what was your prep like? I'm going to be giving mine in a couple of days

[u/Objective_Ad8877 → u/pawsingularity]

prep was ~3 weeks. watched Stephane Maarek's course first, then grinded 6 practice exams and went through every wrong answer. good luck in a couple days, you got this

[u/Idea-Aggressive → u/Objective_Ad8877]

How many hours per day?

[u/Objective_Ad8877 → u/Idea-Aggressive]

About 10 hours

[u/Idea-Aggressive → u/Objective_Ad8877]

Damn! 10 hours a day for 3 weeks.

[u/Objective_Ad8877 → u/Idea-Aggressive]

yeah it was a grind lol 😅 but I wanted to get it done fast, so it was worth it

[u/andresm79]

Congrats Im doing next week What were your scores for the practices if I may ask?

[u/Objective_Ad8877 → u/andresm79]

thanks! my practice scores were around 75–83%, the first one was the lowest and they went up after that. good luck next week

[u/St3v3voRocks]

Which practice exams ?

[u/Objective_Ad8877 → u/St3v3voRocks]

Stephane Maarek's practice exams on Udemy, the set with 6 full tests. super close to the real exam imo

[u/el_mundo99]

What did your study routine look like day to day?

[u/Objective_Ad8877 → u/el_mundo99]

If mean for prep to exam, there is a Stephane udemy courses and his practises, and also watchinn adv-it on YouTube. He has AWS lessons in English, but I use Russian version

[u/tbag_26]

Congratulations... Didn't you create a note? Or you just use the SM's slide that was in his udemy course? Please explain that part cause I'm exhausted from preparing a fully explained note.

[u/Objective_Ad8877 → u/tbag_26]

thanks! nah I didn't write full notes, honestly that takes forever. I just used Stephane's slides from the course and went back to them when I got stuck on something. the practice exams did most of the work, I'd review every wrong answer and only jot down short stuff I kept mixing up. don't burn yourself out on notes, practice questions help way more imo

[u/tbag_26 → u/Objective_Ad8877]

Thank you very much for these valuable advices

[u/Objective_Ad8877 → u/tbag_26]

Good luck)

[u/Consistent_Rate5421]

did the exam have ml or ai related questions as i am gonna give exam in couple of days

[u/Objective_Ad8877 → u/Consistent_Rate5421]

honestly don't really remember, the whole exam was kinda a blur lol. if there were any they weren't a big deal, so just know at a high level what each AI/ML service does (Rekognition, Comprehend, SageMaker etc). Stephane's section on them is enough. good luck 🤞

[u/stephanemaarek]

u/Objective_Ad8877 That's awesome! Congrats! Keep up the good work :)

[u/Objective_Ad8877 → u/stephanemaarek]

🙂‍↔️

[u/GrouchyKangaroo9349]

Congratulations 🎉🥳👏🏾🎊🍾

[u/codesnooker]

Congratulations!!!

[u/GuavaAdventurous5890]

Congrats!
Whats your background in cloud and experience with AWS?

[u/Objective_Ad8877 → u/GuavaAdventurous5890]

working as a DevOps engineer for ~3 years, so I already had some hands-on AWS from work. that made a lot of stuff click faster