On - after one month of rigorous study - I took my AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification exam, and I was very happy that I passed it on the very first attempt! This worked as a big motivating factor for continuing my journey into the deep ocean of AWS certification exams. Hence I decided to start with the first basic AWS certification - the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification. Given my initial certification failure, I wanted to start on a positive note by putting my best foot forward. I have been working with AWS services for almost six years now, so I do have a lot of knowledge on the AWS ecosystem, multiple AWS services, and the different terminologies around the cloud - I just didn’t have the certificates to show that. So I did some introspection and decided to restart my AWS certification journey in May of 2020.
CLOUD GURU AWS SOLUTION ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONAL
But one month into the pandemic, I realized there was also an opportunity to spend time enhancing my professional expertise while I was working from home and saving on commute time.
Initially, I was enjoying working from home because I was saving two hours of commute time every day and was spending time with my family, especially my infant son who was born in the fall of 2019. Then, before I knew it, it was 2020 and we hit a pandemic and started working remotely.
Meanwhile, I continued working with many different AWS services and architecture patterns for various projects within Capital One and grew my on-job understanding of the cloud even more.
It was in fact so demoralizing that I didn’t attempt another AWS certification for the next two and half years. It was really frustrating for me to fail this test because of my lack of preparation and overconfidence in my understanding of the material. I took the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam and did not pass. Today I am an AWS Certified Solution Architect and DevOps Professional, but my AWS certification journey started in 2017 with a failure.
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