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AWS Solution Architect Associate SAA-C02 exam experience

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It all started with the interest to gain in-depth knowledge on AWS Services. It was followed by lab sessions and Q&A on basic AWS services. It was all going according to the plan until there was an announcement that SAA-C01 will be replaced by SAA-C02. Unlike previous exam, SAA-C02 is more focused on scenarios and use-case based questions. I restarted the preparation following the SAA-C02 exam guide and decided to cover most of the topics from AWS whitepapers and study guide. In our day to day job we are only exposed to commonly used services like EC2, ELB, CloudFormation, CloudWatch etc. However, having in-depth knowledge of different AWS services related to Storage, Compute, Networking and Security allows us to build an effective, efficient and scalable systems. Proper designing of an enterprise application happens when most of the services are explored. SAA-C02 certification is a way to validate the understanding gained through the lab sessions and exploring of these services
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Oracle Certification Badge

Oracle Certification Badge from Acclaim
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Java EE 6 Enterprise Architect beta exam experience.

Beta exam was of 90 questions in 150 mins. Initially I felt, time will not be sufficient for this exam as it will be based on lengthy and tricky questions which may be time consuming but it was well sufficient and last 8 mins were used for reviewing few questions. Buying voucher for beta exam as to be done online in Pearsonvue's site itself and it can't be bought in any testing center and appear then and there. Buy it online and then book a slot to appear for the exam in advance rather than extending it to the last day and getting into trouble of not attending the exam itself. Exam was like testing everything, technologies related to old still valid as well as new. Few questions of this exam which are available in Mock exams or the Real exam of Java EE 5 Part 1 will occur. They were good number of questions on patterns covering from "Real World Java EE patterns, Rethinking Best practices" by Adam Bien and few on Core JEE patterns, design patterns and anti patterns
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SCEA/OCMJEA Part II assignment and Part III experience.

Prepartion for this exam started with different reason. I was mainly looking for refreshing my basics skills and learning few new techonologies so that I can cope up with the changing software market. Last year I wored Ayyapa mala (you need to workship Lord Ayyapa for 41 days with sanctity) and while following the rules and customs during the tenure, like wake up early in the morning and offer prayers before the sunrise. As my day starts early and I use to have plenty of time then I thought of making use of it and planned to appear for SCEA Part 1 which I was planning from many years but didn't get any time towards it. I started with Design patterns about the books and the material for SCEA part I, it is mentioned in my previous blog. By end of April I appeared and cleared part I but with I was not satisfied with the score and whole May I was busy with my office work and couldn't get any time for the part 2 exam. Overall by completing part 1 itself I learned many new technol
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SCEA Part I Exam CX-310-052 Notes

These are some points which are noted when I was preparing for the SCEA Part I CX-310-052 exam and hope that these are helpful for the people who are preparing for the exam. Below points are gathered from various books, topics and articles. Experience in my exam: There were good number of questions on patterns (both GOF and Core J2EE Patterns) and I couldn't see any question from UML in my exam. Some questions were on Security and most of them are scenarios based which are quite bit lengthy. Given a situation what would be the best in case, these kind of questions will definitely take some time to answer.  For few Security based questions where all answers seems to be right  Some how I successfully completed Oracle Certified Enterprise Architect Part I. This exam is of very vast syllabus. Before this exam, I know J2EE (few topics were less focused) and Java 1.4 but once I started preparing for this exam I got to know many things, most of the concepts
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