| And those certifications mean absolutely nothing. There have been brain dumps for certifications for years. Even if you don’t use brain dumps, it’s easy to memorize enough from studying something like ACloudGuru. I got my first (of nine) AWS certifications (AWS Solution Architect) without ever logging into the console. But the only reason I get any of the certifications were to know what I don’t know and as a guided learning path. For the first one, I was already a dev lead and wanted to know enough to know what I needed to experiment with when the company was trying to “move to the cloud” My next 5, I was already the de facto “cloud architect” at a startup responsible for “application modernization” And my last three (that I did within three months of each other), I was (and still am) working at AWS in the Professional Services department. I can assure you that I don’t know but about 30%-40% of what those nine certifications cover well enough to hold an intelligent conversation with a customer and I only know the 30-40% from hands on experience. |