What are some last-minute tips for the days of the exam?

A decent half marathon time is about 90 minutes, which is when you get to take the Associate-level exams, and a good marathon time is about 3 hours, which is how long you get to take the Professional-level exams.Keeping focus for that amount of time is not easy. For that reason, you should be well-rested when you take the exam. It is highly recommended to take the exam on a day when you don’t have too many other responsibilities; I would not take it after working a full day. You will be too burnt out.Make sure you have a light meal before the exam – enough so that you are not hungry during the test and feel energetic, but not so much that you feel sleepy from digesting all that food.Just as you wouldn’t want to get out of the gate too fast or too slow in a race, keep pace yourself during the exam. You also don’t want to be beholden to the clock, checking it constantly. The watch will always appear in the top-right part of the exam, but you want to avoid looking at it most of the time. I recommend writing down the three sheets you will receive where you should be after every 20 questions and checking the clock against these numbers only when you have answered 20 questions. This way, you will be able to adjust if you are going too fast or too slow, but you will not spend excessive time watching the clock.Let’s now summarize what we have learned in this chapter.

Summary

This chapter could piece together many of the technologies, best practices, and AWS services we covered in the book. We weaved it all together into a generic architecture that you should be able to leverage and use for your projects.As fully featured as AWS has become, AWS will certainly continue to provide more and more services to help enterprises, large and small, simplify the information technology infrastructure.You can rest assured that Amazon and its AWS division are hard at work creating new services and improving the existing services by making them better, faster, easier, more flexible, and more powerful, and adding more features.As of 2022, AWS offers 200+ services and 3000+ features. That’s a big jump from the two services it offered in 2006. AWS’s progress in the last 16 years has been monumental. We also covered some reasons that the Cloud in general and AWS, in particular, are so popular. As we learned, one of the main reasons for the Cloud’s popularity is the concept of elasticity, which we explored in detail.After reviewing the Cloud’s popularity, we have hopefully convinced you to hop aboard the cloud train. Assuming you want to get on the ride, we covered the easiest way to break into the business. One of the easiest ways to build credibility is to get certified. We learned that AWS offers 12 certifications. We learned that the most basic one is AWS Cloud Practitioner and that the most advanced certifications are the Professional-level certifications. In addition, as of 2022, we learned that there are six Specialty certifications for various domains. We also covered some of the best and worst ways to obtain these certifications.Finally, we hope you became curious enough about potentially getting at least some of AWS’s certifications. I hope you are as excited as I am about the possibilities that AWS can bring.The next chapter will cover how the AWS infrastructure is organized and understand how you can use AWS and cloud technologies to lead a dig.