This book ranks among the best technical books I have read. It ‘tics the boxes’ for having the appropriate content (scope of the book matches that of the exam) and level of detail, but what makes this book ‘great’ is the context and reference to operational best practices. For those with an ITIL or similar background the book will be especially rewarding as the AWS services and their operation are explained in a way that aligns with industry standard operational best practices.
For me, this made the book more accessible – this is a book you can sit down and read. That said, the material is dense - read this (if possible) a chapter per sitting, when you are fresh, and take some time to think over what you read. I spent quite some time thinking ‘so how would this apply to a large scale production system’. Also spend time on the ‘Exam Essentials’ at the end of each chapter they are ‘gold’.
Another reviewer mentioned ‘poorly formatted’. I completely disagree. The book is formatted the same as the SA Cert prep book – chapter, then exam essentials, hands on exercises, and a set of ~20 questions that are chapter specific. I found it easy to jump back to the appropriate section if I missed a question in the chapter quiz. I also found the order in which the authors presented topics to be well thought out, which also helped with ‘readability’.
I received the book late in my prep for the exam, and delayed sitting for the exam as a result. I did have a concern that the book and my previous study materials would not align, but this was not the case. The book is ordered differently than the ACG online course, and in most cases the book provides more context and examples. I found a combination of the online course and the book very effective in helping me retain both concepts and facts (and you need both to pass this exam).
My path to certification included this book, the A Cloud Guru SysOps online Cert course, and two different ‘practice exam’ products, (one from Whizlabs and one from BrainCert.
The book mentions using practice tests as a study aid, and I am a proponent. I took every practice test available, then went back to review the wrong answers on every practice test 3-4 times over the course of several weeks to understand why the right answer was the right answer. This often led to reviewing the AWS documentation on a specific subject.
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Gets you through the certification exam :)
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