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AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty

Overview

Pre-Requisites

1. Not required to do any foundational course, just working experience on AWS Data analytics solutions

   1. https://aws.amazon.com/training/course-descriptions/exam-readiness-data-analytics-specialty/

Exam Fees: 300$

Format: 65 Questions, Multiple Choice

Preparation

1. Udemy Course - https://www.udemy.com/share/101WhC/

   1. Liked the course content with good focus on preparing you for the exam along with practical demo’s to give better perspective into services if you don’t have prior working experience with AWS Services.

2. AWS FAQ’s on all Services

   1. The course above gives good overview of the services but misses out on more intricate details that do show up on the exam. FAQ’s for each of the following services gives you a better insight into them and you will be able to make the right design decision in the examThe

      • Redshift - https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/faqs/

      • DynamoDB - https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/faqs/

      • EMR - https://aws.amazon.com/emr/faqs/

      • Glue - https://aws.amazon.com/glue/faqs/

      • Kinesis - https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-streams/faqs/

      • Elasticsearch - https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/faqs/

      • Quicksight - https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/resources/faqs/

      • S3 - https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/

      • Lambda - https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/faqs/

3. Certification Questions Data Dump

   1. https://www.examtopics.com/exams/amazon/aws-certified-data-analytics-specialty/

   2. The questions are good and certification quality, the only issue is correct response for the question is taken from discussions and reading up further on AWS FAQS

4. Practice Exams

   1. https://www.braincert.com/course/26478-AWS-Certified-Data-Analytics-Specialty-Practice-Exams#

   2. The package comes with 4 practice exams, I was able to take one practice exam, liked the questions and the explanation that was given to them.

Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer

Overview

Pre-Requisites

1. Not required to do any foundational course, just working experience on Google Cloud Solutions would help out in preparing for the exam easier

   1. https://cloud.google.com/certification/data-engineer

Exam Fees: 200$

Format: 50 Questions, Multiple Choice with 2 hours to complete the exam

Preparation

1. Coursera Course - https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/gcp-data-engineering

   1. Liked the course content with good focus on preparing you for the exam along with practical demo’s to give better perspective into services if you don’t have prior working experience with GCP Services.

   2. However due to detailed explanations on each topic along with practical labs it took about a month to complete with 8-10 hours/week schedule.

2. Cheat sheet for last minute review of the exam - https://github.com/ml874/Data-Engineering-on-GCP-Cheatsheet - Connect to preview

3. Certification Questions Data Dump

   1. https://www.examtopics.com/exams/google/professional-data-engineer/

      1. The questions are good and certification quality, the only issue is correct response for the question is taken from discussions and reading up further on GCP services

   2. Flash cards were useful as well for review of the services

      1. https://quizlet.com/397981251/gcp-data-engineer-exam-flash-cards/

4. Practice Exams

   1. Coursera has two exams, one graded and the other ungraded will give good practice preparing for the exam

      1. https://www.coursera.org/learn/preparing-cloud-professional-data-engineer-exam/exam/dSN5B/graded-practice-exam-quiz

   2. GCP has a sample practice exam test as well

      1. https://cloud.google.com/certification/sample-questions/data-engineer

Snowflake Certified Professional

Overview

Pre-Requisites

1. None, working experience of Snowflake will definitely help out better preparing for the exam

https://snowforce.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/#i0000000hZh2/a/0Z0000001tR0/Oj8qDX9NcBYYywUDwySGaXVwD3zw3UH4Hy6XEzhX6aA

Exam Fees: 175$

Format: 100 Questions, Multiple Choice, 2 hours

Preparation

1. Snowflake Study Guide - https://snowflakeuniversity.mindtickle.com/#/update/1240380887853059998?series=1172211196159106059

   1. Study guide was very helpful to get better preparation for the exam. Unfortunately the study guide is not video series, you have to browse through a whole bunch of PDF slides.

2. Quick overview of the exam contents and last minute review of the topics, used this video series. Thank you Joyce Avila.

   1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYibSRsdbwo&list=PL8P3u3jjMVVlOo_ZzuT-iVFrYwkDZu-7u

3. Snowflake Practice Exam

   1. https://snowflakeuniversity.mindtickle.com/#/1195471711141938477

   2. Same questions with slight variation did show up in the exam, so do give an attempt.

4. Udemy Additional Practice Questions - https://www.udemy.com/course/snowflake-snowpro-core-certification-practice-exams/

   1. I have not taken these exams but it got good reviews and if you have not worked enough on snowflake, might be useful to use the practice tests to get an assessment on your knowledge of snowflake topics.

5. Snowflake Practice Questions through Quizzlet - https://quizlet.com/380510774/snowflake-certification-flash-cards/

   1. Some of the questions are basic, and if you are not writing Udemy practice tests, recommend using them.