{"id":699,"date":"2017-11-07T18:44:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T18:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2018-01-10T16:35:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T16:35:36","slug":"aws-solution-architect-associate-exam-update-due-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/aws-solution-architect-associate-exam-update-due-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Solution Architect Associate Exam &#8211; update due (in 2018?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recieved an email from AWS today inviting me to sit a new <strong>Beta<\/strong> exam for the AWS Solution Architect Associate certification.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the rapidly evolving nature of cloud based services the current exam tests knowledge that was valid and correct a number of years ago, and is not necessarily correct in AWS today. A great example is &#8216;How long does it take to retrieve data from Glacier storage?&#8217; &#8211; the answer expected in the current exam is 3-5 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The answer in 2017 would be: Is your glacier retrieval request <strong>standard<\/strong> (3-5 hours), <strong>bulk<\/strong> (5-12 hours) or <strong>expedited<\/strong> (1-5 minutes, yes minutes!!!)<\/p>\n<p>So an update is due to the exam soon, which is a good thing. The email states &#8220;new exam featuring questions that reflect new and updated AWS features, services, and best practices&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However I suspect the new exam is due early 2018 &#8211; as the email states that any exam results for those who sit this new beta would be available in 3 months!!!<\/p>\n<p>Good luck for those studying. You can access my old Associate level notes in my AWS bucket <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/zulfikar.ali\/AWS+Solution+Architect+-+Associate+Notes+-+from+acloudguru+course.docx\">here<\/a> &#8211; which I did update in January 2017 as I was preparing for my Professional Exam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recieved an email from AWS today inviting me to sit a new Beta exam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[434],"tags":[436,440,439,435,444,437,438,443,442,441],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p502c8-bh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}