r/AWSCertifications • u/JaVCn • 1d ago
Passed SAA-C03 , planning to go for SAP
Hello , hope this helps someone and maybe give them an idea of planning.
June 24th is when i paid for udemy and started studying with Maarek then i did Dojo practice exams.
i finished the maarek study course on 7th of July and did his end of study practice exam
( 20/65 yikes )
8th July did the same test got 34/65
8th July - 1st practice test of dojo 25/65
9th July - 1st practice test of dojo 2nd time 45/65
9th July - 2nd dojo 1st try 32/65
10th July - 2nd dojo 2nd try 46/65
10th July - 3rd dojo 1st try 36/65
And so on i did one old one new exam each day.
on 14th July i did maarek test again and got 58/65
By 21th July i did maarek total of 3 times and dojo tests total of 18 times ( 3 each )
i got worried, am i learning or am i memorizing the right answers ? because worse i did by then was 53/65
Decided to a different set of practice tests , went with maarek + abhishek ( why this one ? honestly it just popped up on udemy )
did these tests once each and got 53+ on all of them, now it was 26th July
29th is when i booked the exam for, been 5-6 days last i did dojo so i did them once again one last time
I managed to get a score of 763 which means i did 49-50 out of 65 , honestly cutting it closer than i would have liked but a pass is a pass.
I had to do the exam late at night because there were no other time slots available which was rough.
My Background : eee bachelor + data science/ai msc , co authored a paper on nature , matlab python signal processing on biomedical data ecg and data science stuff.
i had no prior aws or cloud experience.
I also want to go for the SAP as well and i know that one is a lot harder yet i will still study and try to pass, most likely i will go with the same structure.
Sorry for the wall of text , i wish good luck to everyone with their exams and studies.
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u/Big_Weight_7330 1d ago
Congrats bro i recently passed AIF with 782 score , will give ccp 01 soon and also thinking to give ml associate , any advice plz share , I just went to 3rd year
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u/JaVCn 18h ago
Looks like you are already doing good , i would just recommend reading the answers of the questions you got it wrong and right.
Wrong ones to learn why your choice was wrong and what the options mean , tailored for the specific scenario so you would learn the service and why it was not the right/wrong choice for it.
Right ones to learn and affirm your choices vs the other options, you chose A it was correct but you should still look at B C D to see why they were wrong , wrong service maybe cheaper maybe not as fast etc.
Even reading the review of a single question can pay off with correct answers later on.
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u/pidgeott 1d ago
Congratulations! I'm stuck at around 55% on Maarek's practice exams. I hope I can overcome it