Passed the AWS Solutions Architect professional Exam on 09 April 2020 !!

It was challenging & tough exam, Just a background about me: I am not working in the Cloud/ IT Sector , i am trying to move from Telecom to Cloud Sector. I started learning Cloud one year back & got three certifications so far : Solutions architect associate & security specialty & finally the SAP certification. Hope this time to got a job in the Cloud as Solutions Architect because i work a lot to reach this point plus i am really motivated to work in this cloud sector.

Now back to the exam, I want to start by say many thanks to SCOTT !!! your course help a lot. The best parts i like the services comparison when to use not to use. The exam simulator on cloud guru is really difficult but it let You study more & more to increase your confidence, AWS questions are mostly tricky as usual i follow the strategy like other AWS exam which i passed by taking my time to answer the question. I gave maximum 4 minutes for the question because some questions take one minute to 2 minutes to answer so if you compensate the total time  will reach the exam almost at time, I dont know it depend on you how you manage but for me this strategy working fine. I finish my exam and one and half minute left & finally when clicking end end button you find the best answer in the world " Congratulations you have passed the exam " & as Scaott said end of the course this is the best feeling !!

Exam questions are about:

• Disaster recovery maybe around 4 to 6 questions: 2 about using S3 cross region replication & dynamoDB global tables, Cloud Formation (reusable template : Mapping , pseudo parameters, ….),

• Migation : DMS,ADS,SMS ( agentless ,  )- remember if you want to know more information about the server you need to install the agents on on premise  

• Serverless : i was surprised by the number of questions maybe 6 or 7 all about how to Troubleshoot specially between API gateway & lambda . some answer if you can increase the RAM/ CPU on lambda to increase the performance. some about modifying the caching on API gateway. Just i recommend to be more details in the course on cloud guru how to TS Server less architecture 

• one question about Cloud front but it was tough : forward Query String Parameters /  Request Headers + multi origin.

• 3 to 4 questions about centralizing account management in AWS Organizations , one of the questions using SAML multi account in Organization 

• Cognito  : one question easy . Remember if the question is included user must authenticate with google/Amazon cognito is the best choise

–  appstream  / Workspaces : 2 to 3 questions but not easy, one how to share between users

• Route 53: how to share the DNS Servers between VPCs

• DC: when to choose Direct connect gateway  : if you have 2 or 3 VPC only for example do we have to use VIF or DC gateway

• Snowball: easy question 

• SSM VS CW Agents

• SQS : only 1 or 2 questions (Surprised Actually i was expecting more)

-Kinesis and IOT integrations

• Mechanical turk : i was lucking to read one day before the exam some blogs , its integrated with SQS 

• AWS Connect /Lex 

• Elastic Beanstalk : Deployment strategy – Rolling ,…

• ECS : improving the security —> AWSVPC network mode. Difference between TASK Roles & execution Role

Aurora/Athena/Autoscaling appeared also but dont remember the questions

The sources used for preparing Cloudguru + linux academy + whites papers suggested by SCOTT + many FAQs specially for the Migration/Serverless . Practice test jon bonso on udemy(Must taken). Last thing to advise you must know each service integrated with each service is veryyyyyy importantttt. I hope it help

Next target still not decided  i would like to take AWS Advanced networking Certification or start with Azure.

Good luck for everyone