Study Routine#

• Project Experience
  • I used Tiny Tech Tutorials to help me in creating the ExerQ project, I ended up combining a lot of her tutorials in one big project. Her walkthroughs were very helpful. The whole project took about two weeks to complete, though I’m not including this in the study duration.
• Prep Course
  • Afterwards, I watched Hiroko Nishimura’s CLF-C02 Prep Course on LinkedIn Learning. She reinforced a lot of important concepts. You’ll be able to understand the breakdown of a lot of services, support plans, and more. The total time for the course takes about 5 hours. You can pretty much do one domain per day and take lots of good notes. I plan to add my notes to the blog after going through it again.
• Cloud Quest
  • Cloud Quest is a gamified learning experience on AWS, it takes you through real world labs where you can gain exposure to Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Auto Scaling, Load Balacing, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Simple Storage Service (S3), and more. The whole experience took me about a week and a half to complete.
  • There’s 16 labs that you have to complete with increasing difficulty. There’s also fun side missions you can do to practice building architecture design and review concepts with multiple choice questions.
• Quizlet
  • I utilized multiple Quizlet to review important concepts to reinforce my understanding of support plans, various services, and specific use cases. I would include links, but there are many of them out there, so you should have no problem in finding a good one.
  • I studied these flashcards all the time, going through these is super effective in preparing for the exam experience.
• Practice Exams
  • There’s a big difference between hands-on experience and preparing for an exam. That’s why I really recommend building a small project and or completing the Cloud Quest labs, they will give you a lot of hands-on experience and understanding that practice exams can’t deliver.
  • I used Mohamed Ali’s practice exams on Udemy, with a free Udemy account it’s $20. These were very helpful becasue they have six practice exams with explanations for each question, each concept, and every correct and incorrect answer.
  • It’s definitely worth it, you’ll get used to the exam structure and answering questions within a time limit.
  • The explanations are also really comprehensive and fine-tune many concepts thatI was weaker in.
  • I reviewed each exam approximately three or four times each or until I was consistently getting over 90%