AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2020

I used the combination of the A Cloud Guru course (going through it twice) and the TD practice-test course, and scored a 909/1000 a couple of days ago.

Thank you A Cloud Guru!

In preparing for the exam I have purchased a series of practice exams - and I would estimate that the A Cloud Guru course contains about 30-40% of the information that is covered in the exam.

For sure I will be great cloud guru soon.

I would recommend you sign up for a Cloud Guru subscription and do all the deep dives into the Associate Architect topics.

will be able to pass AWS exam after viewing this course, but roughly half of the terms and topics in the very last 2 practice exams are not covered in the course at all, and explanations in these practice exams are more confusing than explaining, they look like "a cloud guru" inventions/opinions rather than knowledge.

I intend to take more Cloud Guru courses.

Other than that, the A Cloud Guru videos and labs are great !

Will try to follow your footsteps and become a cloud guru!

Thanks Cloud Guru ?

Good work Cloud Guru.

Instead If cloud guru can include more on API Gateway would be more helpful.

Majority of explanations are super helpful Excellent source for preparing AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Certification Exam.

This one is a amazing course and covers the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate topics to a very good extend!

I'm not sure about credibility of this course.. One month ago, I could barely spell AWS, and yesterday I passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam on my first attempt with a score of 881.

I was able to earn my AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification by just following this course.

Good introduction Hey Ryan, I successfully cleared the Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam 4/13/19 on my first try thanks to help from this course!!!

Took the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam and passed it on the first time with 94 % one week ago.

I have cleared the exam thanks to this course along with AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Practice Exams and the whitepapers.

Achieved my AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Certification yesterday with this course.

Explained all you need in order to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate level.

This will be the best online tutorial u can search for AWS certified solutions Architect Associate.

After completing this course, I was able to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam.

Tips for Ryan: - lessons with Polly and Alexa can be ditched as they are not required - add more quizzes as the course progress - more realistic scenarios and naming of resources - improve your command line skills :) - provide the course slides for the students who completed the course for a quick recap I think this is the best udemy course on AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate.

i can apply what am learning step by step during the course!

Well layed out course, with lots of step by step information!!

I need some detailed step by step tutorials.

He has simplified the concepts with a clear step by step guide in the Lab sessions.

Clear and step by step introduction... spectacular!

everything goes step by step.

Scores: Content: 4.5/5 Explanation: 5/5 Timings: 4.5/5 Practical: 5/5 Language and Accent: 4/5 Applications to the Real Use Cases: 5/5 Use of Diagrams/Visuals: 5/5 Course: 4.5/5 Once followed step by step and completed, this will definitely make your clear the AWS Certification if you are planning for it.

Concepts were well explained and followed up with step by step labs.

I knew very little about AWS before the exam, but Ryan brought me up to speed quickly with step by step labs and valuable quizzes along the way.

Absolutely brilliant clear explanations and step by step procedures.

Ryan covers information about AWS topics, specific exam questions, real time applications, examples, step by step labs and he even updates the lectures with additional lectures based on student feedback.

Step by step instructions with a knowledgeable teacher.

I liked the Route 53 section a lot.

Topics I got in the exam: high AZ architecture, Cloud HSM, Cloudfront, Lambda, Lambda@Edge, Elastic Beanstalk, ALB, data migration, storage gateway, security groups and KMS, VPC (not so much), Route 53, S3 (quite a bit and make sure you know the difference between different types of reserved, spot, on-demand types), serverless architecture, EBS, EFS, Cloudtrail, Cloudwatch and SQS.

What I really admire about the instructor is he takes all the effort to show a walk though of the services which I cannot practically do using the free account - Snowball, Route 53 etc., and advance features such as Lambda, Alexa and Polly.

Ryan also says he didn't get any questions from Route 53.

Also needs more on Route 53 / ELBs.

Ensure you are hands on with IAM, VPC, EC2, EBS, Route 53, S3, may be EMR too.

For the labs where I had to register for Route 53 domain (helplearnpolly) lab Ryan mentioned that its not a requirement to register for domain, s3 url can be used instead ?

One thing I would improve is Route 53 lecture: slides are mostly text and hard to comprehend, it would help to show diagram that brings all different DNS Types into perspective.

Things that I did not expect and got confused about were route 53 scenarios (about 3 ques) and encryption methods (about 3 ques).

Once you've taught DNS 101, then proceed to Route 53, which is AWS's version of DNS.

If there's a problem, it may be that Amazon needs certs focused on different subgroups, for example EC2, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, and Load Balancing would be good for someone concentrating on using AWS primarily for Web Hosting.

More details on area like Route 53, DNS, EFS I think the quiz can be more extensive.

It will be great if you can include some real life scenarios that we can practice covering each topic from beginner level to expert level.

Very interestingly organised lectures with realtime, real life scenarios!

Very detailed explanation of each and every topic, what it is and how it can be used with a real life scenarios.

Recommend to have hands-on assignments with real life scenarios for better understanding.

Many examples are provided of how the concepts are implemented in real life scenarios.

That's a great course in terms of real life scenarios, best practices and overview of the innovative approaches in IT!

The course is very informative not only from the perspective of the exam but also with real life scenarios and Ryan 's explanation is very simplified Rout53 MX record isnt explained in video.

A very clear concept explanation using practical approach and connecting it with the real life scenarios during explanation.

I would suggest the 10,000 feet video to be more broader and keep some more examples from real life scenarios.

It's not simple to prepare such a consolidated topics in nut shell and to linked the real life scenarios with AWS concepts.

It has applicable advice for how you would use AWS in real life scenarios.

Appreciate Regards, Amit kumar The cloudguru course prepared me well in passing the 'Associate 2018' exam and gave a fantastic in-depth tutorial on how Amazon Web Services works.

Not only I understand the Amazon Web Services, also I had learnt how to be successful in taking them in my future period of time.

Ryan Kroonenburg Has Great experience about Amazon Web Services.

I used it in conjunction with the book "Amazon Web Services in Action" and passed the first time w/ 80%.

I highly recommend this course to anyone who is thinking about just know a little bit of Amazon Web services.

I am now a Amazon Web Services: Certified Solutions Architect - Associate thank you Ryan.

This Course actually helps you understand the most of the Amazon web Services.

I learned in and out about Amazon Web Services by your videos and I got a confidence to complete AWS CSA exam.

I am new to AWS and I am pretty fascinated to see the vastness of amazon web services.

Clear and crisp lecture, easy to undetstand This course was very informational on learn how to use Amazon Web services.

But there should be more content on load balancer.

For load balancer I had to look for other resources.

Load balancers details are required, their attributes are asked in exam in much detail.

Use of load balancers for high availability vs.

Load balancers cannot be used for failover to another region.

Could use more info about scaling logic and the load balancers, especially the app load balancer.

Finally, if you don't want students to pay up for services, tell them explicitly what to do - which specific S3 private link should be used to emulate a load balancer, for example.

So far, only a single section on load balancers has had significant differences in the course material vs the AWS platform, but the forum had the answers.

till now its good and easily understandable Ryan's content definitely needs an upgrade when it comes to Load balancers, VPC and Databases.

Network load balancer is not included.

Example: - On Load Balancers, the author mentions Application Load Balancers (ALB) are new and will probably not be covered in the exam and then covers Classic Load Balancers.

Now there is also Network Load Balancers, which is actually fairly new.

AWSome All videos are well explained in a short period of time, which helps me to maintain the attention.

This course helped me pass the CSA - Associate the very first time I took it after using AWS for a very short period of time.

I've learned so much in such a short period of time.

This enabled me to go from zero to certified in a short period of time.

API Gateway, SNS etc !!!

The only suggestion would be may adding some detailed lecture API gateways which came up a lot in exams.

There were also a bunch of (10+) questions about API Gateway, which was a topic I didn't learn about in depth in my studies.

But you need to have some Linux/Sysops experience to understand and quickly followup all these things and I guess it could be hard for the novices to completely understand some complex labs, as wordpress and API gateway.

Needs more coverage of API Gateway and STS.

Few questions on API Gateway and ECS were asked.

The one that ties together Lambda and API Gateway and Dynamo and even Alexa was especially fun.

Lambda, API Gateway, Alexa, are out of date, and the course examples do not work as demonstrated.

When I enrolled in this course, I knew nothing about AWS or cloud computing.

Success so far :-) The course material no longer reflects the current state of AWS budgeting Simple explanation and good hands on instructions for the lab One of my favorite sites Before purchasing Ryan's courses I knew nothing about AWS.

My only sources of information were this course and the practice tests by Jon Bonso here on udemy too, that was pretty much enough to get me test ready.

Instructions are clear and motivational I've passed the exam after taking the AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate online course by ACloudGuru, and finished all the 6 practice tests by Jon Bonso.

lol I went through the labs, exam questions and also bought the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Practice Exams by Jon Bonso and that helped a little but that CLEARLY wasn't enough.

In addition to this course, I also subscribed to the practice tests -course here on Udemy by Ryan Kroonenburg and another by Jon Bonso.

I passed the Solutions Architect Associate exam with the use of this course and the official study guide.

The official study guide covered much of the material missing from this course, so I recommend it as a supplement.

I took the Final exam twice and the scores are 42% and 53% 2) Supplemented this course with AWS Official Study guide.

I found the Official Study Guide had quite a bit more detail and explanation with more diagrams.

I started learning/exploring with qwiklabs, then the official study guide, and finally this course.