ACloudGuru.com has a good course and practice test available to help you score >90% found here.
ACloudGuru's course does not go in-depth enough for either of these exams I have found. I found the best, super in-depth training from a former Linux Academy instructor, Adrian Cantrill. ACloudGuru purchased Linux Academy in 2020, and unfortunately, most of their content was retired :( Adrian has started his own set of reasonably priced courses under his name, and they are here.
I found that Stephane Maarek's course on the AWS Developer Associate is an amazing mix of theory and hands on demos to help prepare for this exam. The course starts assuming very little prior experience with AWS and builds on top of this to cover all areas of the exam. Stephane scored almost perfect on this exam when he wrote it, so you are in good hands.
As you will find in all of my reviews - the Tutorial Dojo Practice Exams are a must to prepare for the types of question and format of questions you will see on the exam.
An excellent course on the basics of ML and AWS is by Mike G Chambers. Unfortunately, the course is a work in progress (over 13 hours of video completed so far) and a bit pricey ($149). Overall, the material is excellent. The course is here.
A complete high-level course can be found on Udemy here.
Additionally, be sure to thoroughly review Emily Webber's AWS SageMaker Deep Series on YouTube.
The StatQuest YouTube series is excellent for filling in any gaps on basic statistics knowledge that you may have. Stats are tested on the exam.
Frank Kane and Stephanie Maarek have a great Sundog Education course on Udemy for the AWS Data Analytics Cert found here.
For a quick overview and primer on the Apache Hadoop ecosystem (heavily tested on the exam), Frank Kane has a great YouTube video here.
Additionally, I tracked all of the videos/articles that I read and used to prepare on a public Trello board.
Adrian Cantrill has a fantastic detailed and super in-depth course to prepare for the Advanced Networking Specialty Certification.
Additionally, I found the AWS Exam Readiness Course for the Advanced Networking Specialty has a very in-depth set of videos on Networking for AWS. I reviewed these videos (9 hours) just before the exam and am sure they provided a massive benefit in reasoning through questions I had not seen before the exam.
Who knew there were so many ways to move data between databases! This exam opened my eyes to the amazing capabilities and support within AWS to store, navigate, and gain insights from your data using the best-suited database for the job.
I found this exam heavily weighted towards the following,
- When to use a specific database for a defined use case. Examples include,
- Cost-optimization
- Fastest to implement
- Performance of the Database
- Highly Available (HA)
- Most suited to Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Migration strategies, especially for RDS databases. Some examples include,
- On-Premise to AWS Cloud,
- How to do it fastest
- How to do it with the least amount of downtime
- How to do it to minimize cost
- RDS to Aurora
- Read-Replicas vs DMS
- Cross-Region migrations
- Extra Bonus Points: Know all of the complex edge cases for SQL Server. This includes,
- Moving SQL Server on Prem to SQL Server RDS.
- Dealing with TDE and what specific versions of SQL Server support it (Enterprise, Standard 2019, etc.)
- Backup scenarios for SQL Server
To prepare for this exam, I used the following,
- Udemy Course from Stephanie Maarek and Riyaz Sayyad - I found this course a bit slow at first (watched at 1.25x speed). Once past the slow beginning, it covered each topic in great depth, and I found it super helpful to read and re-read the study notes to grasp concepts for each database. I found myself doing this the morning of the exam as a refresher.
- Tutorial Dojo AWS Certified Database Specialty Practice Exams 2022
- WhizLab Practice Exam for AWS Certified Database Specialty - I found this more comprehensive than the Tutorial Dojo exam, with the one caveat that not all of the topics covered on it were on the exam.
I used three excellent resources to prepare for this exam,
- Udemy Course from Chandra Lingam - If I was to create a course for AWS certifications this would be it. This course is broken into two parts, a refresher of AWS services followed by a deeper dive into the security aspects of AWS. To be honest, I suspect you could just take this 17.5 hour video course with it's labs, quizzes and final prep test and be fully ready for the exam!
- Tutorial Dojo AWS Security Specialty e-Book - this e-Book dives right in and covers all aspects of the exam. I am not a big reader, so I did not fully finish it, but for less than $10 it is a great resource to have.
- Tutorial Dojo AWS Security Specialty Practice Exams - As always, never write a AWS Certification Exam without having completed these!
TutorialDojo has a great set of practice exams for a very reasonable price. Be sure to write plenty of practice exams since the Associate, Pro, and Specialty level exams question formats and lengths are different, and time management is important during these exams.
TutorialDojo's portal is here
Udemy also has some great practice exams for purchase, although I have found TutorialDojo's exams more up to date and of better quality. Despite this difference, I still found value in completing Udemy's practice exams, especially for the Specialty level certs.
One AWS ML Speciality Certification Practice Exam from Udemy can be found here
One AWS Data Analytics Specialty Certification Practice Level Exam from Udemy can be found here
The AWS Exam Readiness Courses provided by AWS bring it all together to help ensure you are ready for your exam.
The majority of them are here
An intelligent engineer from AWS shared their strategy for answering questions on exams that they did not know. They suggested using your instinct and going with the first answer you pick. Do not overthink the question. The majority of the time, your first answer is the correct one.