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Alexandra Kenney: Okay hi everyone we're going to get started now so welcome to today's webinar is titled tips for passing the aws cloud.
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Alexandra Kenney: practitioner certification exam my name is Alexandra and i'll be your MC for the next hour, so thank you so much for joining the conversation.
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Alexandra Kenney: So before we get started we're going to cover off some of the webinar functionalities.
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Alexandra Kenney: During the webinar everyone's microphones will be muted, but we want this to be an open discussion so if you have any questions, please enter them in the Q amp a box or the chat window at the bottom of your screen.
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Alexandra Kenney: There will be a dedicated question and answer session after the presentation and today's webinar is being recorded, so a copy will be sent to all registrants by the end of the week.
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Alexandra Kenney: today's speaker is miles brown he's a senior cloud and devops advisor at exit certified.
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Alexandra Kenney: milestones over 20 years experience in the IT industry across a variety of platforms he's recognized as an aws authorized and structure instructor champion and a Google cloud platform professional architect and instructor.
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Alexandra Kenney: miles has delivered award winning training for some of the biggest cloud providers, so you might ask yourself why choose exit certified, for your aws training.
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Alexandra Kenney: Professionals like you have been trading with us since 2001 you want to know that your training provider has the credibility different organizations, trust and exit certified delivers.
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Alexandra Kenney: We have vendor approved it, training and it's our only business, and when you trained in our facilities you'll find well equipped classrooms friendly staff who are dedicated to making your learning experience comfortable and productive.
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Alexandra Kenney: And when you train remotely with our im VP platform you'll see that our investment in technology makes online learning every bit as engaging as the training that you take in person.
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Alexandra Kenney: If you have any questions about why you should take aws training courses with exit certified or which courses right for you this presentation will definitely help.
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Alexandra Kenney: But we will answer questions about that, throughout the presentation Okay, so we can get started i'm going to pass it on to you miles.
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Myles Brown: Thanks out.
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Myles Brown: Well, welcome everybody and, as I mentioned, this is tips for passing the cloud practitioner exam and.
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Myles Brown: I haven't been have an agenda here, we thought we'd start with a quick overview of all the aws certifications and then delve deeper into the cloud practitioner.
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Myles Brown: Which is sort of a foundational certification one for really for anybody who bumps up against the cloud, even for non technical people that's what makes it so attractive, it makes it very broadly desirable.
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Myles Brown: So we'll we'll get into you know what is covered in it and.
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Myles Brown: How that that's really the big idea of this and you know you don't necessarily want to hear just from somebody like me who's been using us for 10 years, maybe you want to hear from somebody who may be non technical somebody who may be very new to us, and so I grabbed one of our colleagues.
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Myles Brown: Dan Smith, is a sales guy he recently passed the certification and so we'll sort of.
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Myles Brown: You know, pick his brain to find out what exactly did he do to get prepared for this at the very end i'll talk a little bit about a promotion, we have called the double shot where.
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Myles Brown: You buy an example through exit certified and if Unfortunately you don't pass you get a second attempt for free, and this is something that aws has sort of built exclusively for exit certified to to provide and then they don't usually have this kind of a second chance.
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Myles Brown: But it is a limited time offer and so we'll get into that at the very end so let's jump into the overall aws certification, why do I want it, what are the certifications.
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Myles Brown: For a long time now cloud has been the number one skill that companies need.
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Myles Brown: You know, every year, I see what are the jobs that are most demanding it and and across the board, what we'll see is that.
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Myles Brown: You know whether you're a developer or an architect and an operations person everybody's hitting up against the cloud and it's not going anywhere it's only growing out here, we see the jobs that require cloud skills and us are expected to grow by 28% in the next five years.
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Myles Brown: And so, this was a sort of.
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Myles Brown: A poll that was taken very recently of a bunch of technology leaders now aws certifications have been growing.
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Myles Brown: And, and this is some stats that I got from from Amazon directly they they told us that, as of August 2020 over 400,000 individuals hold aws certifications.
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Myles Brown: And that grew by more than 85% between August 2019 and 2020 so Amazon themselves have been doing a real push for certifications they want to get their people who use their product certify.
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Myles Brown: A big a big push behind this is if you're an aws partner through through something called the ap me aws partner network, you know, to achieve higher levels in your.
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Myles Brown: Partnership, you have to have so many people with associate so many people with a foundational so many people with professional certifications so it's kind of an important idea.
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Myles Brown: Now these certifications where they come from well they're created by aws so aws has you know their customers or partners and their own employees help build these exams they set.
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Myles Brown: The bar for passing score what's the minimum.
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Myles Brown: Candidate look like.
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Myles Brown: Now, do you want the certification by.
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Myles Brown: That you know may your company has been achieved ap and certifications certification, or something so that might be one.
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Myles Brown: But also, you know just personally you want to sort of validate your skills right show people that hey I know a little bit about the cloud.
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Myles Brown: You know that's that's what this foundational one does it says, I know a little bit about the cloud, and specifically aws it'll help you build credibility and confidence you actually get recognition of your expertise, you can get a badge that you could put on your linkedin.
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Myles Brown: And it helps propel your career, especially if you get into the higher level certifications you know if you're a deeply technical person.
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Myles Brown: You know that that can be important in job interviews and things like that, but what we really feel is that you know just that act of becoming certified will make you better at the cloud.
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Myles Brown: And because that process of you know, learning all these things, and it leader, you know think that it's a very important thing so there's a nice White Paper that aws sponsored that just came out.
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Myles Brown: I guess, almost a year, like a year ago, but it's at 91% say that certification drive 90% report increased activity from people who were certified 86% say it in security.
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Myles Brown: So one of the things that I find is that if you just go and learn aws on your own to do your job you learn what you need to do your job.
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Myles Brown: And you don't end up investigating all the areas of aws that you don't think you need and it's one of those you don't know what you don't know.
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Myles Brown: And so what I find is that when people come and take our courses, a lot of times they'll come and take our courses before they go for more advanced certification.
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Myles Brown: They may end up learning about services that they never used before and then, when they get back to work, they say, oh I should be using this service, so it really does help drive innovation.
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Myles Brown: You get the digital badge if you get a certification they'll give you discounts on your next certification you get half off you get free practice this exam.
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Myles Brown: At events like if you go to aws and then they have a certain certification a lounge where you can go and they give you free swag and stuff like that.
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Myles Brown: In general they give you access to the aws certified store so there's some really nice benefits of certification, so what all the certifications well here they are.
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Myles Brown: For a long time they had just these five the three associate and the two professional level, but what what Amazon realized is that.
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Myles Brown: There really is that need for people who are, maybe even non technical people who are management sales people, people who are talking to people about the cloud but aren't deeply technical.
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Myles Brown: And that's really what the cloud practitioner generics for some people will even if they are deeply technical they'll start with that just to get one under their belt before they go for a higher levels.
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Myles Brown: Certification but that's really where what we're talking about today is cloud practitioner, they say, ideally you'd have six months of.
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Myles Brown: You know, being around the cloud but tell you the truth, you don't really need that much even you know I would say, you could come pretty cold.
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Myles Brown: You know, and if you took the sort of one day cloud practitioner essentials class and you did self study you could probably achieve that.
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Myles Brown: And, and I think that's exactly what happened with my colleague Dan will get into it with him.
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Myles Brown: He took the class with me and then he did some self study you know just did some practice exams and then reading up on, you know when he got one wrong What did he get wrong about it, and I think within a few weeks, he was he was good to go.
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Myles Brown: Of course, you know if you are deeply technical there's a lot more certifications to go and typically he first vacations there's a three or four day class as will really help you prepare for it.
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Myles Brown: And so that's a certified does we have you know say the 3D architected class or that SIS OPS class or the developing on aws class.
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Myles Brown: You know, those are classes that run almost every week, then there are ones that are a lot more rare you know if you get into machine learning there's a nice.
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Myles Brown: Four day machine learning pipeline class.
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Myles Brown: But you know it doesn't run all that often because there's not that many really you know machine learning specialist looking for that.
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Myles Brown: So we have a very robust public schedule, we also do private training, if you have.
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Myles Brown: A group of plenty you want to sort of mess, with the hours or whatever do it on your own time tweak things a little bit.
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Myles Brown: And so, he started by dissolve that so let's jump in and talk specifically about this cloud practitioner certification what to expect on the lam and really is it for you.
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Myles Brown: So here's what they say it's individuals who have an overall understanding of aws cloud, whether in a technical or non technical role right.
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Myles Brown: So what you're trying to show when you get the certification is that you know you understand the basic.
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Myles Brown: You know architecture of what does aws look like what's the global infrastructure, the regions and availability zones that kind of thing.
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Myles Brown: And then, why do we want to use the cloud, you know some of the benefits and things like that.
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Myles Brown: Some of the the architectural principles and the really the cloud value proposition, you know benefits of the cloud, and then, and this is probably the toughest part is the ability to describe the key services when you look at the aws management console if you go set up an account.
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Myles Brown: there's over 200 services, it must be very daunting if somebody comes in cold today and says, I gotta learn aws.
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Myles Brown: You know 10 years ago when I started, there were eight things in that list, and you said I could learn all of aws now there's so many niche services that I don't know what they do.
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Myles Brown: You know, and I don't need to know that but there's about a dozen that everybody uses and another 20 more that most people use, and so you need to know kind of that 30,000 foot view of those means services.
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Myles Brown: And it's good to understand a little bit about billing and account management, the pricing models things like that that's what we're talking about is that you want to show that you have a high level understanding of this of aws.
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Myles Brown: Lead registers in business and to complete the exam there's 65 options, there are multiple choice now sometimes it's choose one out of four sometimes it's choose two out of five so they have multiple choice and multiple response.
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Myles Brown: But it's not the tricky ones where they say it's you know, like 10 different statements and it's one, three and seven or right or No two and six or right it's nothing crazy like that it's always you know select two answers or select one answer.
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Myles Brown: So, really, you know again this is much the same just talking about what you're supposed to be able to do.
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Myles Brown: what's covered in the exam now there is a nice cloud practitioner exam guide this comes right from the aws website, let me, let me just throw that in the.
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Myles Brown: chat so any any of these URLs that i'm going to include i'll throw them in the chat just so you can you should be able to click on that in the chat and open it up in a browser, this is the exam guide where they kind of walk through what to expect and.
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Myles Brown: You know the the exam is split up into these four domains, you know security and compliance is about a quarter of the exam.
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Myles Brown: they're not going to expect you to know anything specific about hipaa compliance versus fed ramp or any of that kind of stuff but it's all it's really more security than compliance.
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Myles Brown: And even their billing and pricing there'll be a couple questions about on demand versus reserved versus spot instances something like that, and actually they have you know a lot more.
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Myles Brown: detail it's on what's covered in each of those domains.
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Myles Brown: And then somewhere in here, they have the list of all the aws services that are sort of fair game on the exam and you'll see that it is quite a list I know there's a lot of stuff in that list that could be asked about now mostly it'll be very high level, you know map the.
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Myles Brown: name of the Sir service to the description.
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Myles Brown: And it can be a service is you know there's a lot that are kind of.
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Myles Brown: Like here Amazon elastic block store elastic file system like the word elastic pops up all over the place, the word simple we've got a bunch of those we've got this simple queuing service where that.
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Myles Brown: yeah here simple Q service simple notification service, you know, so the names if you've never seen it before it can be a little confusing, so it does take you a little bit of time.
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Myles Brown: To kind of be able to map that and that's where the practice exams really help you know kind of nail that down.
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Myles Brown: All right, so let me jump right back into my slides alright, so when you are ready to do the exam you know you have to schedule the exam.
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Myles Brown: There are testing centers where you can go you either do your testing through one of two companies there's one company called pmi and the other company is called Pearson vue I, personally, I use Pearson vue because in the city where I live, you know there's a lot more options.
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Myles Brown: But the physical test centers you know, are largely open again.
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Myles Brown: But sometimes you have trouble getting an appointment time you know, so you don't have to go to a test Center it turns out, you can also do online proctored, which is where you actually do it from your own home or your office or something like that.
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Myles Brown: So you have to choose between do I want to go to a physical testing Center or am I going to do, online proctored am I going to use Pearson vue or PSI.
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Myles Brown: And so that really comes down to figuring out, you know where are the options near you, you also need to create an aws certification account So if you just go to aws training that's where you find your certification and everything else, you will have.
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Myles Brown: That up an account and then from there you go and schedule your exam now this question about a testing Center versus the online proctored.
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Myles Brown: You know the appointment times kind of vary by test Center.
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Myles Brown: At home, you can use your own computer now there might be some problems with that I think dan's got you know, a tale of woe around that so we'll see hear from him I i've never had any big problems with the online doctoring there are a couple sort of things there's no breaks allowed.
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Myles Brown: you're not allowed to talk really while you do it, so if you're a person who reads aloud when you do stuff they don't like that.
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Myles Brown: You don't you can't bring a pen or paper like they make sure that you don't have anything in.
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Myles Brown: When you when you first sign up for the online doctoring it'll give you an option right away to run a system test.
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Myles Brown: it's a good idea to run that right when you schedule your exam make sure that your computer has the capability to do it and make sure you're doing that, on the computer that you're going to use day of you know.
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Myles Brown: But you might end up having to run that system test again, you know so usually if i'm if i'm going to set my exam for 11am i'm going to log in at 1030 i'm going to give myself half an hour to make sure that I get in there.
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Myles Brown: read very carefully the confirmation email for the online proctor they have very strict rules on what's allowed like.
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Myles Brown: Right, so you get you wait a few minutes till it comes on and they just talk to you, they use the audio through your computer and they talk to you, and they say Okay, you know hey.
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Myles Brown: Can you sort of move your webcam around, so I can see a little bit actually even before that you end up using your phone to take pictures of all four sides of your desk you know they want to make sure that you don't have books or another person there to answer your questions.
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Myles Brown: So really checking in early is the big thing there so like I said you take some some pictures of what's going on, I had to actually relocate to a more suitable location my Home Office had a mirror on one side and they were like no that's no good, so I ended up.
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Myles Brown: going to my kitchen table right.
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Myles Brown: And you know they want to make sure that you're not going to be disturbed people around you and all that kind of thing, so you know the online proctored is good, but there are some tablets to watch out for and like I said, Dan has has some things that he's going to talk about as well.
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Myles Brown: Now, how best to prepare, so this is what we're really here for what are the resources for for study.
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Myles Brown: The gold standard is instructor led training right, so we have a one day authorized aws class called the cloud practitioner essentials.
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Myles Brown: And this is a course that runs every week, you know, let me, let me just throw that link into the chat in case you're looking to attend that class in person.
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Myles Brown: You know, mostly we run them virtually but it's a one day class where we kind of overview those services we start with what are the benefits of the cloud what's that global infrastructure look like some of that and.
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Myles Brown: yeah that my audio broke up a little bit I saw that I, my Internet was going a little funky hopefully we haven't missed too much.
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Myles Brown: So, like a one day instructor led training that's you know gold standard right next level is the six hour free digital version of the cloud practitioner essentials.
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Myles Brown: Now aws has moved all their free digital training into a website now they just did this in October called aws skill builder and let me go find that one for you, so this is the cloud practitioners and actual.
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Myles Brown: gotta sign in, let me just quickly do that.
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Myles Brown: a trial that again.
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Myles Brown: yeah I had a little Internet.
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Myles Brown: problem but.
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Myles Brown: i'm going to why I can get in here we go skill builder all right, I mean now.
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Myles Brown: And so, this specific class is it's about six hour there's a video, and you know it's broken up, they have a bunch of little videos.
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Myles Brown: Okay, I can jump right in and start learning now, this is what it looks like you say start course.
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Myles Brown: And you know it's a it's got some diagrams and some lessons and you walk through and, at the end of each module there's a little quiz now I wouldn't say that these quizzes are really.
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Myles Brown: exam quality questions it's really just hey did you understand this module and so that's the you know that's the skill bill it's good at the very end, they have a nice section on what to expect in the exam exam strategies things like that.
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Myles Brown: In addition, that there's sample questions.
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Myles Brown: There are some.
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Myles Brown: The link in here how's the.
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Alexandra Kenney: Question, would you be able to repeat that.
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Myles Brown: Well yeah.
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Myles Brown: I said that there are some free exam questions.
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Myles Brown: into the chat.
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Myles Brown: Certainly civil war there's only a few of them I think there's maybe 10 and then they got answers at the end aws also had as.
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Myles Brown: Also, has practice exams now, this one is sort of a paid kind of thing, where you paid $20 and you get one practice exam I don't.
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Myles Brown: These practice exams I got a note about that, on the next couple slides so i'll come back to that there are also third party companies like ways labs that create.
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Myles Brown: This the you can buy them directly from aws as well, but right now we have this it's called the double shot promotion this isn't even something that you can get from amazon's website it's something.
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Myles Brown: With this double shot, you can get a free exam retake So if you don't pass you get a second attempt now there's, it is a limited time offer so here's the website, let me just put that in the chat for anybody looking for it.
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Myles Brown: The double shot promotion, basically, you have to purchase your voucher through exit certified by the end of this year by December 30 and then you have to attempt, the exam and the retake by there's some dates here somewhere.
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Myles Brown: Right that's That gives you time to you know go through those videos you know get ready do some practice exams give your attempt, and if it doesn't work out, then you know okay well I gotta go back and figure out, you know where Am I missing read up some more try again okay.
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Myles Brown: All right, I think that was pretty much the end of our slides we want to leave some time for questions now I answered a few in the Q amp a let's see yeah One was about the exam vouchers Oh, the slide deck yes we'll be sending that we know we send out the recording the slide there.
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Dan Smith: yeah which isn't always the best strategy right.
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Dan Smith: Now, like there's some people they're like okay if you're if you're really unsure about, but you can actually mark which ones.
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Dan Smith: yeah i'm to review um and then, so I went back, and I think I had you know eight that I really wanted to review or something right, so it just gave me the extra time to.
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Dan Smith: Either stick with my first guests, or you know some of it was guessing there were a few you know there were a few that felt like that were a little bit.
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Dan Smith: Out of the like we didn't even know, but then I found out, and you can correct me if i'm wrong miles is that aws sometimes throws in additional questions that won't even be.
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Dan Smith: tested on earth that are part of the overall exam score that they're either trying out or because there was a couple of them that were I was like I don't remember studying this at all, and only one.
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Dan Smith: yeah I think there's one or two but anyway yeah.
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Myles Brown: yeah they definitely throw in some extra ones that may not even be marked right or they have some that are there to to find out if you're cheating in some way like they.
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Myles Brown: You know they have the brain dump websites that you know, like I think there's some interesting things there but.
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Myles Brown: yeah that's sort of a popular heuristic is, as you go through the exam you know.
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Myles Brown: If you've got a good idea of the answer answer go on if if you can narrow it down like maybe two out of the four and you're not sure I would guess one of them, but then mark for.
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Myles Brown: review and then, when you get to the last question it'll show you a page and says here's all the ones that you answered.
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Myles Brown: here's the ones that are marked for review and then you can go back because maybe the way they worded a later question sort of solves like it'll it'll jog your memory in some way, then when you go back oh yeah there it is they don't give the actual percentage of past.
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Myles Brown: They don't tell you they do, they give instant percentage of pass because exams progress now basically because.
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Myles Brown: You know, there may even be questions that because of some new development in aws that question is no longer valid.
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Myles Brown: So it might be there, but not scored so they can't really tell you this is the passing rate right, but you know it's probably somewhere between 70 and 80% pass you know, like is, you have to get that many of the scored questions right.
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Myles Brown: But yeah they don't really tell us exactly.
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Dan Smith: And I have one more thing I guess I on my side is because I kind of work with the partner and sales teams that and we kind of took it together, and so we shared feedback back and forth.
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Dan Smith: is so if somebody asked us, is it a hard exam right miles probably think so no right right but it's one of those if I didn't study I would not have passed it right, like you.
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Dan Smith: Really it's not like oh i'm just going to show up, I take the one day practitioner.
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Dan Smith: Class unless you're working with aws a lot, you really have to understand those pillars, the core concepts and.
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Dan Smith: And you know if you're a quick learner and you memorize that stuff quickly that's great, but if not, I think it really does so.
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Dan Smith: In that terms, is it an easy exam and I would say it's a you know it's moderate, you know it's not so hard that you know it was out of my REACH.
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Dan Smith: But it wasn't a give me right, like it wasn't like oh sweet i'm just ready to go and take it, and I know some people that failed it and had to take it a couple times right and and and that talk about aws a lot more than I do so.
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Dan Smith: With that hopefully it's you know that's an insight as well.
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Myles Brown: yeah no I appreciate that yeah you're right yeah I mean i've been using aws for years, so, for me it would seem very easy right, but if you're brand new aws you definitely have to study and that hopefully that's what we've hit home here today is that you know practice exams really help.
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Myles Brown: The the iot is good, but so is that you know set of videos, especially at the very end, where they talk specifically about the exam and they have some some sample questions in there.
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Myles Brown: Unfortunately, my audio was cutting out a little earlier, I think it's been okay during the Q amp a hopefully.
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Myles Brown: Oh.
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Myles Brown: You don't have to choose your answer when you mark for review, you can leave it unanswered mark for review, I would just suggest you know.
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Myles Brown: If you've got it narrowed down to one of two answers go with your gut feeling pick one of them, just because what if something later happens and you run out of time, you know you'd rather have something answer.
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Myles Brown: But yeah you don't have to answer you can just mark for review and come back to it.
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Myles Brown: Thanks all.
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Myles Brown: Alex I think we're pretty much done.
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Alexandra Kenney: yeah there's no more questions we'll wrap it up for today and yeah expect that email sometime before the end of the week with the recording of this webinar and thank you all so much for attending today.
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Myles Brown: Oh, Bob Ross either negative points now there's no you don't get docked for a wrong answer so you know guessing.
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Myles Brown: in lieu of nothing is a good idea.
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Myles Brown: Oh, Joseph asked if we have any more of these.
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Myles Brown: Others, I think you know, this one is pretty popular we got lots of interest in it so maybe next we do one for the architect that's sort of the next.
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Myles Brown: sort of most popular the architect associate the developer, maybe after that but yeah keep keep your eyes open, we have a lot of webinars I usually do webinars sort of early in the year kind of recapping.
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Myles Brown: Either what happened at reinvent or you know just new things in the data analytics stack so we definitely have a few of those so keep your eyes open for those webinars we usually push them out to our aws.
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Myles Brown: took the architect training waiting for the webinar.
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Myles Brown: Oh we'll see how quickly get one no.
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Dan Smith: yeah I don't I don't think i'm going to be i'll help you out it's a sales guy on the architecture.
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Dan Smith: Developed enough but hey you i'm sure you'll find some other experts out there, so.
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Myles Brown: i'll go to.
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Myles Brown: A good a student.
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Myles Brown: oh four questions meeting two answers to get partial credit if you only get one don't think so, you know i've never i've never seen them say one way or the other, on those.
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Myles Brown: that's a good question.
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Myles Brown: I think we're all done.
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Alexandra Kenney: Great thanks everyone.
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Myles Brown: Have a good day.
