Thank you for your honesty about SysOps. I noticed people hardly take it and no one talks about it but I found this to be the most difficult of them all. It’s the application and practicality of the exam vs just knowing facts. It’s the only exam that’s solely focused on the Operations aspect and without performing the work - it’s hard to know the most “optimal” way to do a task.
for sure! I barely squeezed by SysOps after doing really well on SA and decent on Dev. I found myself googling a lot of stuff after the SysOps exam and my score showed "needs improvement" on a couple of areas... but a pass is a pass! 😄
Hi Trevor, I want to let you know that I passed the SA-003 exam on Tuesday. I'm a Microsoft guy who looks forward to changing my career. I have been on-prem for 18 years as a System Engineer. For the last 4 1/2, I have been working in a 100% VDI environment. I love technology and fell in love with virtual technology. I was able to train for this cert while working full-time as a system engineer. I used Adrain Cantrell and S. Merrek video's and used the Tortuial Dojo practice exam. I'm preparing for one more exam for 2022. I love your video brother.
@@trevspires Hi Trevor, It had taking me two weeks. I cleared my AWS Cloud Practitioner exam today. I reached my goal for 2022. Please keep up with the videos.
@@trevspires I knocked out my AWS Practitioner in December. That's it for now with the certs. I'm on my DevOps mission for 2024. I'm falling in love with Linux. Cheers...
@@compton8301 finished one. Didn't attempt the 2nd as I didn't pass the mock exams I usually sit for b4 attempting the real test. Got engaged in other projects now but will resume soon ISA.
Thank You Trevor. I have been planning to take AWS tests and your video has been a great encouragement. I will be taking tests in a month's time frame.
Can you demo your note taking method and what worked for you? I’m genuinely curious on how folks setup note taking, whether that be Notion, OneNote or writing on paper. If you could take an example slide or two, and take notes on it. Thanks so much!
yes! Keep an eye out. I plan to publish another video soon on my study/note taking system. but in short... I use notion, and take very ugly notes. In particular, I focus my notes on practice tests answers that I get incorrect to focus in. I opt to use pre-existing notes for everything else... ie. the slides provided with the udemy course that I recommend.
Smarter way: if your final goal is to get the SAP cert, get a course and study for Associate level(no exam), study for Professional level and then take the exam. After 3 years, you will renew the Professional level cert, NOT the Associate level. Also, for employers, I think only the Professional level certs are relevant.
Hey Trevor thank you for the videos, I’ll follow your recommendations for my AWS journey. Just waiting on your developer video since I’ll be tackling that as well. Cheers!
I'm not sure if I will make that one or not!!! - but reach out if you have any questions. I can share what worked for me, but the short&sweet answer is Stephane Mareek's Udemy Class, and Tutorials Dojo practice Exams
Really appreciate your content, it's some of the clearest most current info on the SE/SA role out there. I'm going through a career transition at the moment, trying to take my soft skills and put them to work with my general IT knowledge
Everybody have an angle. My wife and I are taking the same Udemy course. What are you planning on doing with your certifications? Partnership? Consulting? Employment?
Thanks for your video! I'm struggling with studying for AWS exam. Probably because I'm not currently in IT. I mean I'm ok with Exel VBA but it is probably the closest I get to IT. Do you think it's possible to get into the cloud field from this point or am I waisting my time?
Hi, am new and in the few next days will try the cloud practitioner, and if i pass it, i will go to the solutions architect. My question is: will we be able to get any kind of jobs, or we just collecting certifications for no reason? Because for the cloud practitioner i learned theory and solving the tests, but not any practical job. I would like to do the job even for free to see how its being done, but amazon offers only theory and certification. Yeah you can say make your account, i have account in aws i see the console n stuff, but i want to see someone having a problem and someone fixing it, not only theoretically
Thanks for the wonderful and informative video. I can't agree more that your content has always been helpful. I have 15 years of experience as a Java Developer and I have worked on variety of Java Front End and backend technologies right from Swing and MV* frameworks , Struts 1.2 , Ejb 2.0 till Spring. Also Worked in Cloud roughly in 2012 and then back since 2019. My question to you is that is it really worth doing a certification or have working knowledge and hands on for AWS ?. I have met a lot of developers who say that they have completed the Aws Certifications. some have even completed 6 of them. But when it comes to working on the production environment and handling real world scenarios , not even one of them succeeded and all were struggling. I do not have any certification from AWS. but I still lead a team of developers and mostly I have to pull them out from these issues by using my limited knowledge. This has worked for me for more than 5 years now. Please let me know if I should still do the certification and which certification to do.. Some specific or the one which has a broader coverage . Thanks in advance
Hi Trevor, please I am coming from Banking experience and want to go into tech-cloud. Please how/which cloud certifications will be good for me? I have little knowledge of data processing
Hi Trevor, I have a Bachelor degree in information technology also AWS solution architect associate, a SysOps associate, a developer engendering professional, and Azure fundamental certification. what kind of career do I have to apply I don't have any IT job experience any advice
Thanks Trevor, what do I need to learn before I jump in AWS certification? I work in social media space so I only have basic knowledge of HTML, CSS .thanks again.
I don’t have the exact answer, because it depends on many things. I feel like my friend Daniel has mastered the ‘mindset’ that it takes to break into tech with no experience. 100% worth a watch. ruclips.net/video/BV1j0cR2mYw/видео.html
I just search on forums, and try different resources. If you’re new, I’m happy to help you get started. DM me on LinkedIn and I can get you connected with the right resources to start learning. Most of them free
I worked at AWS, so the certs didn’t help as much as experience That whole “looking down” on people with too many certs is just a bad Twitter take. Not true, never has been. Never will be.
@@trevspires THAT is extremly important aspect you missed on. Lol it took you two months to complete AWS because you fing worked there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for letting me know 😊❤️ I am totally new should I do for job purpose SA but two SA one is associated and second one is professional which will be correct for me plz
I just passed my AWS CCP certification and I have 20 yrs of IT experience just not sure where to go from here. Studying for my Solutions Architect Associate, but not sure if it's worth it.....
The overlap of info in the Associate exams does help to compress the timeline of gaining multiple AWS certs 👍
So, chatGPT4 + Whisper to automate commenting on RUclips videos, right?
Thank you for your honesty about SysOps. I noticed people hardly take it and no one talks about it but I found this to be the most difficult of them all. It’s the application and practicality of the exam vs just knowing facts. It’s the only exam that’s solely focused on the Operations aspect and without performing the work - it’s hard to know the most “optimal” way to do a task.
for sure! I barely squeezed by SysOps after doing really well on SA and decent on Dev.
I found myself googling a lot of stuff after the SysOps exam and my score showed "needs improvement" on a couple of areas... but a pass is a pass! 😄
Hi Trevor, I want to let you know that I passed the SA-003 exam on Tuesday. I'm a Microsoft guy who looks forward to changing my career. I have been on-prem for 18 years as a System Engineer. For the last 4 1/2, I have been working in a 100% VDI environment. I love technology and fell in love with virtual technology. I was able to train for this cert while working full-time as a system engineer. I used Adrain Cantrell and S. Merrek video's and used the Tortuial Dojo practice exam. I'm preparing for one more exam for 2022. I love your video brother.
Well done!! Congrats
@@trevspires
Hi Trevor, It had taking me two weeks. I cleared my AWS Cloud Practitioner exam today. I reached my goal for 2022. Please keep up with the videos.
@@trevspires
I knocked out my AWS Practitioner in December. That's it for now with the certs. I'm on my DevOps mission for 2024. I'm falling in love with Linux. Cheers...
Just got all four of these certs in the previous 4 months. Super excited about it !
Definitely a work smarter strategy! I'm trying the same route with the Azure certs, because of the overlapping.
How did you do?
Great video. Thank you
Meet you within 1.5 month ISA after getting these 4 certs on my belt.
🧐
CCP cleared
Have all 4 now?
@@compton8301 finished one. Didn't attempt the 2nd as I didn't pass the mock exams I usually sit for b4 attempting the real test. Got engaged in other projects now but will resume soon ISA.
Thank You Trevor. I have been planning to take AWS tests and your video has been a great encouragement. I will be taking tests in a month's time frame.
wishing you luck!! Be sure to let me know how it goes.
brother you never despoint right on the spot !!! thank you
He said nothing.
I did cloud prep questions. Did not take the cert so far but feel very good prepared right now.
Can you demo your note taking method and what worked for you? I’m genuinely curious on how folks setup note taking, whether that be Notion, OneNote or writing on paper. If you could take an example slide or two, and take notes on it. Thanks so much!
yes! Keep an eye out.
I plan to publish another video soon on my study/note taking system.
but in short... I use notion, and take very ugly notes. In particular, I focus my notes on practice tests answers that I get incorrect to focus in.
I opt to use pre-existing notes for everything else... ie. the slides provided with the udemy course that I recommend.
@@trevspires my question is does anybody every actually read their notes? I take notes and then never read them. Is that just me?
No wonder he's called Trevor Spires. He inSPIRES people. 😊
I'm doing exactly what you said and it's working perfectly. Stephane Mareek is the best, thank you
Thanks Trevor, I loved your video was amazing for my goals.
Smarter way: if your final goal is to get the SAP cert, get a course and study for Associate level(no exam), study for Professional level and then take the exam. After 3 years, you will renew the Professional level cert, NOT the Associate level. Also, for employers, I think only the Professional level certs are relevant.
Hey Trevor thank you for the videos, I’ll follow your recommendations for my AWS journey. Just waiting on your developer video since I’ll be tackling that as well. Cheers!
I'm not sure if I will make that one or not!!! - but reach out if you have any questions.
I can share what worked for me, but the short&sweet answer is
Stephane Mareek's Udemy Class, and Tutorials Dojo practice Exams
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Thank you, very helpful!
Thanks Man!
This helped a lot!
Really appreciate your content, it's some of the clearest most current info on the SE/SA role out there.
I'm going through a career transition at the moment, trying to take my soft skills and put them to work with my general IT knowledge
YEAHHH THAT IMPORTANT CAVEAT YOU JUST SUBTLEY CAST ASIDE lol 2:30
Thanks!!
Everybody have an angle. My wife and I are taking the same Udemy course. What are you planning on doing with your certifications? Partnership? Consulting? Employment?
It’s employment for me. A bit of career future-proofing and progression.
@@trevspires Same here. Could you kindly in the future make a video about consulting and APN with AWS? Love the videos!
You must b having loads of experience already in that field to clear those certs within such a short time
Its true... without the prior experience, it would have taken me much much longer.
I started with a big advantage.
Great videos.
thanks pat!
Thanks for your video! I'm struggling with studying for AWS exam. Probably because I'm not currently in IT. I mean I'm ok with Exel VBA but it is probably the closest I get to IT. Do you think it's possible to get into the cloud field from this point or am I waisting my time?
Keep going, you got this!
please share for aws professional architect as wel
I have completed my graduation in English. Please tell me in AWS , how many courses I have to study ?
Both of these statements dont make any sense.
Just my personal opinion, but I wouldn't get Cloud Practitioner if I had the others. It's kind of low level.
Have you tried the challenge labs on Whizlabs?
Nice content. But your Linkedin profile isn't available 😕
Yeh I changed the URL - You can find me by name, Trevor Spires
Hi, am new and in the few next days will try the cloud practitioner, and if i pass it, i will go to the solutions architect.
My question is: will we be able to get any kind of jobs, or we just collecting certifications for no reason? Because for the cloud practitioner i learned theory and solving the tests, but not any practical job. I would like to do the job even for free to see how its being done, but amazon offers only theory and certification. Yeah you can say make your account, i have account in aws i see the console n stuff, but i want to see someone having a problem and someone fixing it, not only theoretically
Thanks for the wonderful and informative video. I can't agree more that your content has always been helpful. I have 15 years of experience as a Java Developer and I have worked on variety of Java Front End and backend technologies right from Swing and MV* frameworks , Struts 1.2 , Ejb 2.0 till Spring. Also Worked in Cloud roughly in 2012 and then back since 2019. My question to you is that is it really worth doing a certification or have working knowledge and hands on for AWS ?. I have met a lot of developers who say that they have completed the Aws Certifications. some have even completed 6 of them. But when it comes to working on the production environment and handling real world scenarios , not even one of them succeeded and all were struggling. I do not have any certification from AWS. but I still lead a team of developers and mostly I have to pull them out from these issues by using my limited knowledge. This has worked for me for more than 5 years now.
Please let me know if I should still do the certification and which certification to do.. Some specific or the one which has a broader coverage . Thanks in advance
Hi Trevor, please I am coming from Banking experience and want to go into tech-cloud. Please how/which cloud certifications will be good for me? I have little knowledge of data processing
As a network engineer I wonder how realistic it is for me to just do the AWS Network cert.
It’s def doable. I’m glad I did the SA associate first, but If you know networking you could jump right into the ADv networking cert
Hi Trevor, I have a Bachelor degree in information technology also AWS solution architect associate, a SysOps associate, a developer engendering professional, and Azure fundamental certification. what kind of career do I have to apply I don't have any IT job experience any advice
Thanks Trevor, what do I need to learn before I jump in AWS certification? I work in social media space so I only have basic knowledge of HTML, CSS .thanks again.
I don’t think you need to learn anything else- you just need to jump in!
@@trevspires Thanks Trevor, so no Linux no Network basic knowledge neede before I jump in?
@@hannoushy583 helps, but not required. You’ll learn some of that along the way
Hi Trevor, after getting the associate level certifications what is your advise on getting jobs and projects to show practical knowledge?. Thanks
I don’t have the exact answer, because it depends on many things. I feel like my friend Daniel has mastered the ‘mindset’ that it takes to break into tech with no experience. 100% worth a watch.
ruclips.net/video/BV1j0cR2mYw/видео.html
This is must to pass all four one or specific one plz
Where do you get all this study information from any helpful links I’m new?
I just search on forums, and try different resources.
If you’re new, I’m happy to help you get started. DM me on LinkedIn and I can get you connected with the right resources to start learning. Most of them free
After these certification can you get a job
My question exactly
Your LinkedIn profile isn't available !
yeh I changed my handle to @trevspires. You can just search my name.
Were you working full-time when you were doing this?!
I was - but I also got to study for 1-2,hours each day in my job
Hey Trevor, I couldn't find the video of your general study strategy. Would you mind linking me to it?
I absolutely will soon. Still editing the footage, should have that out in the next few days.
The video is up! - ruclips.net/video/I6Xy1v2w1_M/видео.html
@@trevspires Thank you!! Excellent work, man. Just added you on LinkedIn, as well. Keep up the great work.
Did it actually increase your job prospects, I think employers look down up a resume with a lot of unnecessary certs
I worked at AWS, so the certs didn’t help as much as experience
That whole “looking down” on people with too many certs is just a bad Twitter take. Not true, never has been. Never will be.
@@trevspires THAT is extremly important aspect you missed on. Lol it took you two months to complete AWS because you fing worked there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@Turnpost2552 - you seem upset by this video.
Sorry bout it.
My end goal is aws DevOps.
Can I take developer associate cert directly or should I take SAA before developer.
Plz throw some light🥺
you can certainly go straight for developer! - No problem there at all
@@trevspires Thanks a lot Trevor. Your reply means a lot😍☺️👍
Am i cute?
2 months if you are expert in the fields lol
I wasn't an expert at all, but I did have years of previous tech experience.
Certainly, most beginners will likely need to spend more time studying.
Everyone says start from cloud practitioner but you start from SA
That’s my suggestion - yep!
Cloud Pract is a good cert still, but SA associate is also a good starting point
@@trevspires thanks 😊❤️
Which one is best for job
@@islamicsolution5618 Both are good, but SA Associate is a more respected cert in the job market.
Thanks for letting me know 😊❤️ I am totally new should I do for job purpose SA but two SA one is associated and second one is professional which will be correct for me plz
WHY ARE THESE RUclips VIDEOS SO TOXIC. Like I Finshed certificaiton in 7 days. like????????????????? What???
Great Trevor , the LinkedIn link not working. Please check it.
thanks for the heads up. It is working for me on browser and mobile. Not sure what the issue is.
I just passed my AWS CCP certification and I have 20 yrs of IT experience just not sure where to go from here. Studying for my Solutions Architect Associate, but not sure if it's worth it.....
Thank you for your info. +1 sub
Very very helpful advice.