Cloud is the Future of Computing

● By the end of next decade,

almost all our applications will
be running on the cloud
platform (Source: Forbes).
● Gartner Forecasts Worldwide
Public Cloud Revenue to Grow
17% in 2020
● IaaS Secures Highest Growth
in 2020 Due to Data Center
Consolidation
● Amazon Web Services is
known primarily as an IaaS
(infrastructure as a service)
 Why Cloud Technology is a good career option?
● Exponential growth in the adoption of
cloud technology leads to millions of
jobs created in cloud space.
● 83% Of Enterprise Workloads Will Be
In The Cloud By 2020 (Source:
Forbes)
● Upgrading to cloud skills gives you
better Job security with your current
employer.
● Learn cloud skills to stay with current
job trends.

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Why AWS Certifications?
● 68% of Information Technology decision
makers reported a gap between their teams’
skill levels and the knowledge required to
achieve organizational objectives.
● Not to mention, certifications are the
credentials that validate the skills of
candidates. So, to fill this gap, enterprises
have now started looking for certified
professionals to meet their organizational
objectives.
● So, the demand as well as interest for AWS
certifications have been increasing
continuously over the time.
Why AWS Certifications?
● Payout i.e. Salary is one of the most common factor to go for AWS certifications. Reports
and surveys have shown a considerable difference between the salary of AWS certified and
non-certified professionals. As per Global Knowledge salary report 2019, here is an insight
into the AWS certification salary for different roles.
Whizlabs - An Overview

● Based out of Bangalore, Whizlabs consists of an innovative team of 80+ subject

matter experts, certified professionals, and skilled professionals working in
different departments.
● With other online certification training courses, we launched our first AWS
certification preparation kit in November, 2016 (AWS Solution Architect Associate
Practice Questions).
● Since then we’re fully dedicated to provide high quality training content for the
AWS as well as other cloud certifications.
● Our long term focus is to improve the quality of our training courses and provide it
at the most affordable prices.
How does Whizlabs help in AWS certification preparation?

What is the definitive path for AWS certification preparation? Coverage of exam
objectives, hands-on experience, and practice. This is all what we offer to help you
get fully prepared for the AWS certifications. Whizlabs offers:

● Online Courses
● Practice Tests
● Hands-on Labs
Whizlabs Practice Tests
● Whizlabs is known for its practice
questions. We offer best in industry
practice tests for AWS certification to
help candidates get prepared and
gain confidence before appearing in
the real exam.
● Created by the team of certified professionals and subject matter experts,
every question goes through multiple reviews and pass the quality guidelines
before they are published on our learning platform.
● Our dedicated experts are always ready to respond to your queries, ensuring
that none of your doubts are left unanswered.
Real Exam-like Environment: Exam Mode & Practice Mode
Intuitive Exam Simulators: Unique Practice Questions
Exhaustive Explanation with Every Question
Advanced Reports: Domain-wise Mark Distribution
Subject Matter Expert (SME) Support
Whizlabs Online Courses
● On the success of practice tests, we started
receiving requests for online courses; so we
started working on video courses for the
AWS certifications.
● We offer self-study videos created by our
team of subject matter experts and certified
professionals.

● Our online self-study training course is completely focused on the objectives of

the certification exam and helps you understand all the topics.
● Our online training courses are intended to make you fully prepared with the
basic as well as advanced concepts to pass the certification exam.
Simple, Short, and Easy-to-understandable Videos
Hands-on Labs
● Hands-on labs give you access to the AWS management console and thus
provides real-time experience on AWS platform.
● There are 60 AWS labs in our learning platform.
● The labs are very detailed step-by-step guide on how to perform a real-time
task.
● You can perform the lab tasks in Whizlabs provisioned AWS environment.
● The users who have enrolled for Practice Questions or Self-Study Videos
have free access to our Labs.
Choose an AWS lab and start playing
AWS Meetup - Giveaway!!!
Q/A
Tea Break
AWS Certification List & Suggested Experience Level Which Certification to target?

Choose it based on your experience and

interest.

If are you just getting started:

If have no prior experience, then target
“Cloud Practitioner”.

If from developer background, it’s

suggested to target “Developer
Associate”.

If sysadmin background then target

“SysOps Administrator”

If solution architect background then

target “Solutions Architect” (most
common).
If you are highly experienced in AWS,
then go for Professional level
certifications or speciality certifications.
Exam Cost Structure & additional info.
..Certification Exam Cost Questions Duration

Cloud Practitioner 100 USD 55 -60 90 minutes

Solutions Architect – Associate 150 USD 55 -60 130 minutes

Developer – Associate 150 USD 55 -60 130 minutes

SysOps Administrator – Associate 150 USD 55 -60 130 minutes

Solutions Architect – Professional 300 USD 75 -80 170 minutes

DevOps Engineer – Professional 300 USD 75 -80 170 Minutes

Big Data – Specialty 300 USD 75-80 170 Minutes

Advanced Networking – Specialty 300 USD 75-80 170 Minutes

Security – Specialty 300 USD 75-80 170 Minutes

** After passing any exam every time, you will get 50% discount code
** Certificate Valid for 3 years
Courses / Learning resources (Free / Paid)
.
.
Free Paid

AWS Training https://www.whizlabs.com/aws-certifications/

AWS YouTube Channel Udemy:

https://www.udemy.com/user/stephane-maarek/
https://www.udemy.com/user/backspace-academy/
& there are more free resources available in YouTube from
https://www.udemy.com/user/63f4a578-c67a-456b-916c-dda
df73e9a26/
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2020 - Full Course
https://acloud.guru/
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Training 2019 - Full Course
https://linuxacademy.com/
Intellipaat YouTube Channel , Edureka YouTube Channel, Knowledge
Note: A Cloud guru & Linux Academy going to get merged
India YouTube Channel
from mid of these year, so any of one subscription will give
access courses in both sites.
Study Plan For Busy Professionals & Preparation suggestions
For working professionals it’s become quite difficult to maintain a daily job and study for any certification
courses. Here are the pro tips for busy professionals for study and preparation

1) The most effective way is to dedicate study time and stick with it. Daily 1-2 hour dedication according
to the course length would be highly beneficial.

2) Theoretical knowledge will be not enough to pass certification or getting future opportunities, it’s highly
suggested to apply/try out what you are learning , so hands on knowledge will give you advantage not
only thinking process and answering scenario based questions but to perform live project tasks in job.

3) Try to make mental model of something that you are learning and when using a particular service how
other services can be used together, scenario based questions mostly will be based on how you will
use multiple services combined to make a solution.

4) After going through different courses and hands on, it’s highly suggested to test your knowledge /
understanding via practice tests, for this widely popular is Whizlabs practice tests, it provide real exam
like situations and scenario based questions so that in exam centre you will be very comfortable to give
test.
What Opportunities Available For Certified Professionals ?
There are multiple opportunities available for certified professionals based on role and here are the top
opportunities list:

Cloud Application Architect

Cloud Application Developer Check Jefferson Frank independent study on salary
Big Data Engineer survey to know salary level for such positions . What
Big Data Solutions Architect AWS products used most. What additional tools and
Cloud Engineer skills required as per survey and many more such
important informations.
Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Cloud Systems Administrator
Data Engineer
Data Scientist
DevOps Architect
DevOps Engineer
Pre-Sales Architect
Site Reliability Engineer
How to get job / target opportunity after getting certified
1) AWS Certified professionals are preferred and even sometime it’s mandatory to have certification when
applying for AWS related opportunities. After getting certified, share in official certification groups and
social networks e.g. linkedin and twitter to gain visibility, recruiters reach out if they see such posts and
have opportunities available.

2) Try to implement and make samples of what you have learned during certification, it will be highly helpful
when clients/recruiters asks for demo.

3) Most opportunities are role based, so if it’s a developer opportunity then Developer Associate and
DevOps Professional will be preferred, if it’s a Cloud Solutions Architect opportunity then Solution
Architect Associate and Professional will be preferred, so choose proper certification based on your
background and utilize when applying for opportunities.
Additional Skills hot on demand
Below are the most demanding skills for Cloud Architects & DevOps professionals
Terraform: It’s is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage
existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions. Configuration files describe to Terraform the
components needed to run a single application or your entire datacenter.

Ansible: It is an open source automation platform. Ansible can help you with configuration management, application
deployment, task automation. It can also do IT orchestration, where you have to run tasks in sequence and create a chain
of events which must happen on several different servers or devices

Docker: It is a tool designed to make it easier to create, deploy, and run applications by using containers. Containers
allow a developer to package up an application with all of the parts it needs, such as libraries and other dependencies,
and ship it all out as one package.

Kubernetes: Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of
containerized applications.

Jenkins: Jenkins is an open source automation tool written in Java with plugins built for Continuous Integration
purpose. Jenkins is used to build and test your software projects continuously making it easier for developers to
integrate changes to the project, and making it easier for users to obtain a fresh build. Jenkins provides hundreds of
plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project.
Q/A
Start with the Basics
● Focus on the Foundation Layer
○ VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, S3, etc
● Every level has something new to learn
○ DevOps
○ Alexa
○ Machine Learning
● You may or may not know everything
○ There are 170+ major services in AWS, it’s like an
Operating System
Fail Fast / Learn Fast
● Give a lot of time to hands-on exercise
● Read side materials
Follow Docs not Dumps
● Use Documentations instead of googling dumps
everyday
● Cloud Services keep on changing frequently, following
docs keep you updated
If you Pass, that’s just Day 0
● These exams are like Collage Exams, the real journey
start after passing the exam
● Find ways to continue work on the services
● Remember, the certification lasts for only 3 years, so
make the most out of it
Yes I have done 11 AWS Certifications
● But that’s Yesterday now
● Focus on how you can utilize the learnings
● You don’t need to do ALL
● Find ways to share your knowledge, and continue
learning
Becoming AWS Certified will get me hired!!
Rather than think of AWS certifications as a "guaranteed job", think in
terms of them increasing your odds. Here's two cases where they
increase your chances of getting a job (and increase your potential
earning power)

● Many companies looks for Certified people in addition to basic skills

● AWS Partner companies get addtional incentives to hire Certified
people, this adds value in their portfolio as well
Q/A
Thank You!
Resources
● https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/awscertified-challe
nge-free-path-aws-cloud-certifications/
● https://whizlabs.com
● https://aws.amazon.com/new/
● https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/