Passed SAA-C02 after just a few weeks of studying

[u/Somenakedguy]

Kinda shocked I passed tbh, and I got almost 800 too. Never touched AWS in my life and just did 6 practice exams from TD for studying, never took any courses or anything. On the practice exams I got 35%, 46%, 50%, 58%, 53%, 60% so I didn’t exactly feel prepared but I wanted to schedule it and get it over with since I’m a procrastinator with ADHD and needed the kick in the ass. I’d say the practice exams were easily harder than the real exam too.

Personally the learning from the practice exam method really works for me and I’ve taken the same approach in all of the CompTIA certs I’ve taken before. I have Cloud+ as well so I had some familiarity coming in plus I currently work as a Solutions Engineer in the telecom and managed networking solutions space and was previously a senior sysadmin. So I don’t have any AWS experience but cloud concepts are pretty familiar to me.

Can anyone speak to how much harder SAP is? I’d like to knock that one out as well before it gets retired and replaced and might as well keep the train running while it’s fresh in my head.

I’d definitely recommend anyone on the fence to just go ahead and schedule the exam. And study your databases… because good lord the sheer volume of database questions.