I took the AWS Certified Data Analytics Learning – Specialty exam recently and these are the study resources I used:
- A Cloud Guru AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty Course (including practice exam & labs)
- Official AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty Practice Exam
- AWS Solutions Library
- AWS Whitepapers & Guides
- AWS Well Architected Framework
- AWS Podcast
- Many of the questions on the exam are very verbose, so it is important to scan ahead and understand the requirements of the solution architecture (e.g. reliability or cost optimization is the driving requirement) and then read the full question with that in mind. This allows you to discard any red herrings that are posed on the fly and focus on the important solution components.
- This exam is 2 hours 50 minutes long and you will need to use most of that time to fully read and review each of the 65 questions. Time management is important and using the Flag Question feature of the test platform is the best way to maintain your momentum by answering the questions you are completely sure of and then circling back later to the ones that require more thought (these are the ones you flag).
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Hi Rene
General comment to say how great the site is and all of the content posted has been extremely useful to me.
I’m really keen to understand your learning strategy – I have a number of certs, and I’m a big believer in learning and not just passing exams for exam sake. I spend as much time optimising my studying as I do studying IT based topics. Given your immense success, can you share any insights into how you structure learning, how you retain information and ensure value from your learning?
Thanks in advance
Thanks for reaching out, Dave. All good questions, answers covered in detail during these 4 podcasts:
Nutanix Podcast – Guest discussing Education & Certification Part 1 – https://soundcloud.com/nutanixnext/certification-and-education-with-npx8-part-1
Nutanix Podcast – Guest discussing Education & Certification Part 2 – https://soundcloud.com/nutanixnext/certification-and-education-with-npx8-part-2
Nutanix Podcast – Guest discussing Education & Certification Part 3 – https://soundcloud.com/nutanixnext/certification-and-education-with-npx8-part-3
Nutanix Podcast – Guest discussing Education & Certification Part 4 – https://soundcloud.com/nutanixnext/certification-and-education-with-npx8-part-4