1: Introduction and Scenario
AWS Exams
- Split into Role Based and Specialty.
- Recommendation to go Associate first, and not Cloud Practitioner.
- Leave specialty until last.
- Professional requires more depth and more breadth than Associate.
- Specialty regarded as 50%/50% split between specialty skill covered and AWS skills between the Associate and Professional level.
- Getting all associates is known as "all three".
- Professional is much harder than Associate.
- Professional is 180 minutes, Associate is 130 minutes.
- Associate + Professional = all five.
- "Professionals are harder than the specialty". They are also USD$300.