Jan 9 2019 – Failed Security Speciality Exam Today

I used all 3 services (ACloudGuru, Whizlabs and LinuxAcademy) and all the content is out of date.  All services combined will get you maybe 50% there. LinuxAcademy is more up to date then ACloudGuru but not by much.

Whizlabs will give you a huge false sense of readiness. I was getting 95% on Whizlabs Practice Exams and I’d say they only reflect 25% of the questions on the exam.

I bought the AWS Practice Exam which I got 60% and weirdly enough it was considered a pass which has to be a mistake. The AWS Practice Exam reflects well what to expect on the exam.

If you read enough "I Passed/Failed" posts here you’ll hear questions can vary greater per exam sitting for Security which must be the case since the mix of questions was much different from what I’ve read.

From what I remember:

• 5 questions on Active Directory (This really through me off)

• 4 questions on GaurdDuty and with very specific in configuration.

• 2 questions on Debugging Vault Lock Policies

• 5 questions on CMK KMS Key Rotations

• 2 questions about Orgs and Root Access across multiple accounts

• 3 questions with Athena + CloudTrail

• 4 questions on Parameter Store / AWS Secrets Manager

• 2 questions on VPC flow logs

• 1 question on Macie

• 1 question on QuickSight

Other than Macie and QuickSight you really had to know all of these services and debugging cases around them.

There was really not that many KMS or S3 questions.

I would say that 1/5th of the questions were poorly worded especially the multiple choice choices.