I'm now a AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

I have been keen to achieve the AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certification since sometime to improve my understanding & intuition for multi-cloud technologies. I'm glad to have finally achieved it. 

The exam covers a wide breadth of topics. I found the following resources very helpful:

• Stephane Maarek's Ultimate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional 2022 13 hour video course that includes a 596 slide deck for reference.
• Among the practice tests, I especially loved this Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (4 hours) course from AWS on how to come up with the reasoning for picking the right option for a question. Anti-patterns are highlighted and the limitations of services were well explained to show why certain choices should NOT be used. This added a whole new perspective. 

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Sample Questions
• Udemy AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Practice Exam course by Neal Davis
• Udemy Practice Exam AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional course by Stephane Maarek and Abhishek Singh

Having worked in Cloud pre-sales, I could appreciate why some scenario questions had long, ambiguous, distracting statements - they were meant to simulate real-life use cases. Learning about the reasoning and justification provided for the answers in the practice tests was the best part of preparing for the actual exam and the biggest takeaway for my road ahead.

Along the way, I also found these useful resources: 

• AWS Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART)
• AWS Foundations: Strategies and Tools to Perform Large-Scale Migrations
• AWS Workshops 
• AWS YouTube Playlists
• Well Architected Labs