AWS Cloud Computing

AWS Cloud Practitioner

In a brief break from focusing on Leadership books, I’ve been brushing up my technical skills and reviewing some training material from AWS.

Amazon’s cloud offerings are many and varied, and they can be daunting for anyone unfamiliar with the basic concepts. The AWS Cloud Practitioner certification provides a grounding in these core concepts, and is suitable for anyone who has to interact with AWS in a professional capacity.

The AWS provided training consists of around 7 hours of content, covering the basic principles of the cloud, outlining some core AWS services and then covers security, design and pricing. It’s broken down into short videos with knowledge checks following each section. It’s easy to consume and easy to understand.

The certification is a single multiple choice exam, consisting of 60 questions with 90 minutes to complete. I also took the practice exam, which was 25 questions long, but I’d advise doing this a few days before your scheduled exam as the the results are not always ready immediately.

Once you’ve passed the exam, you get access to a digital badge that you can share to display your credentials.

As is often the case with these kinds of certifications, the value is in the initial training, which I would recommend for anyone who wants to learn the difference between EC2 and S3, and why either matters. The exam and certification are an additional extra, nice for hte validation but not fundamentally required.

This is a stepping stone for other more involved certifications, but I’d say it’s not required. An experienced developer could skip this and move straight to the associate level exams without missing much, whereas a product owner, scrum master or other non-technical person may really find benefit at the practitioner level.

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