AWS Certifications

Role-based certifications that validate advanced skills and knowledge required to design secure, optimized, and modernized applications and to automate processes on AWS. 2 years of prior AWS Cloud experience recommended.

AWS PROFESSIONAL Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

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This credential helps certified individuals showcase advanced knowledge and skills in providing complex solutions to complex problems, optimizing security, cost, and performance, and automating manual processes. This certification is a means for organizations to identify and develop talent with these critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives.

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional is intended for individuals with two or more years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:
• Familiarity with AWS CLI, AWS APIs, AWS CloudFormation templates, the AWS Billing Console, the AWS Management Console, a scripting language, and Windows and Linux environments
• Ability to provide best practice guidance on the architectural design across multiple applications and projects of the enterprise as well as an ability to map business objectives to application/architecture requirements
• Ability to evaluate cloud application requirements and make architectural recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning applications on AWS
• Ability to design a hybrid architecture using key AWS technologies (e.g., VPN, AWS Direct Connect) as well as a continuous integration and deployment process

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

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The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional showcases individuals’ technical expertise in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on the AWS platform, giving them increased confidence and credibility with peers, stakeholders, and customers. Organizations with these qualified professionals can ensure speedy delivery of secure, compliant, systems that are highly available and scalable.

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional is intended for individuals with two or more years of experience provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:
• Experience developing code in at least one high-level programming language; building highly automated infrastructures; and administering operating systems
• Understanding of modern development and operations processes and methodologies
• Ability to implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
• Ability to implement and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
• Ability to define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS

Role-based certifications that showcase your knowledge and skills on AWS and build your credibility as an AWS Cloud professional. Prior cloud and/or strong on-premises IT experience recommended.

AWS ASSOCIATE Certifications

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

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This credential helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives. Earning AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate validates experience in deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS.
As of March 28, 2023, the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam will not include exam labs until further notice. This removal of exam labs is temporary while we evaluate the exam labs and make improvements to provide an optimal candidate experience. With this change, the exam will consist of 65 multiple-choice questions and multiple-response questions, with an exam time of 130 minutes.

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate is a great starting point on the AWS Certification path for individuals who may have any of the following:
• Experience working in a systems administrator role
• Experience in AWS technology
• Strong on-premises IT experience and understanding of mapping on-premises to cloud
• Experience working in other cloud services

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

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AWS Certified Developer - Associate showcases knowledge and understanding of core AWS services, uses, and basic AWS architecture best practices, and proficiency in developing, deploying, and debugging cloud-based applications by using AWS. Preparing for and attaining this certification gives certified individuals more confidence and credibility. Organizations with AWS Certified developers have the assurance of having the right talent to give them a competitive advantage and ensure stakeholder and customer satisfaction.

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified Developer - Associate is a great starting point on the AWS Certification path for individuals who may have any of the following:
Experience working in a developer role with in-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language
Experience in AWS technology
Strong on-premises IT experience and understanding of mapping on-premises to cloud
Experience working in other cloud services

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate showcases knowledge and skills in AWS technology, across a wide range of AWS services. The focus of this certification is on the design of cost and performance optimized solutions, demonstrating a strong understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This certification can enhance the career profile and earnings of certified individuals and increase your credibility and confidence in stakeholder and customer interactions.
This exam does not require deep hands-on coding experience, although familiarity with basic programming concepts would be an advantage.

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate is a great starting point on the AWS Certification path for individuals who may have any of the following:
• Experience in AWS technology
• Strong on-premises IT experience and understanding of mapping on-premises to cloud
• Experience working in other cloud services

AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate

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AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate validates skills and knowledge in core data-related AWS services, ability to implement data pipelines, monitor and troubleshoot issues, and optimize cost and performance in accordance with best practices. If you are interested in using AWS technology to transform data for analysis and actionable insights, this beta exam offers you the opportunity to be one of the first to earn this new certification.

Knowledge-based certification for foundational understanding of AWS Cloud. No prior experience needed.

AWS FOUNDATIONAL Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

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The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner validates foundational, high-level understanding of AWS Cloud, services, and terminology. This is a good starting point on the AWS Certification journey for individuals with no prior IT or cloud experience switching to a cloud career or for line-of-business employees looking for foundational cloud literacy.

Dive deeper and position yourself as a trusted advisor to your stakeholders and/or customers in these strategic areas.

AWS SPECIALTY Certifications

AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty

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This credential helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives. Earning AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty validates expertise in designing and maintaining network architecture for the breadth of AWS services.

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty is intended for individuals who perform complex networking tasks with five years of hands-on experience architecting and implementing network solutions. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:
• Professional experience using AWS technology, AWS security best practices, AWS storage options and their underlying consistency models, and AWS networking nuances and how they relate to the integration of AWS services.
• Knowledge of advanced networking architectures and interconnectivity options [e.g., IP VPN, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), virtual private LAN service (VPLS)].
• Familiarity with the development of automation scripts and tools. This should include the design, implementation, and optimization of the following: Routing architectures (including static and dynamic); multi-region solutions for a global enterprise; highly available connectivity solutions (e.g., AWS Direct Connect, VPN).
• Knowledge of CIDR and sub-netting (IPv4 and IPv6); IPv6 transition challenges; and generic solutions for network security features, including AWS WAF, intrusion detection systems (IDS), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), DDoS protection, and economic denial of service/sustainability (EDoS).

AWS Certified Database - Specialty

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This credential helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives. Earning AWS Certified Database – Specialty validates expertise in recommending, designing, and maintaining optimal AWS database solutions.

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified Database – Specialty is intended for individuals with experience and expertise working with on-premises and AWS Cloud-based relational and non-relational databases. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:
• Five years of experience with common database technologies
• Two years of hands-on experience and expertise working with on-premises and AWS Cloud-based relational and NoSQL databases
• Ability to understand and differentiate the key features of AWS database services
• Ability to analyze needs and requirements to design and recommend appropriate database solutions by using AWS services

AWS Certified: SAP on AWS - Specialty

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This certification validates expertise in designing, implementing, migrating, and operating SAP workloads on AWS. Organizations can now identify and develop the right talent with critical knowledge and skills in optimizing SAP workloads on AWS.

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified: SAP on AWS - Specialty is intended for individuals in roles that require experience with both SAP and AWS. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:
• Five or more years of SAP experience
• One or more years of experience working with SAP on AWS
• Ability to design an SAP solution that runs in the AWS Cloud in adherence with best practices laid out in the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and SAP certification and support requirements

AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty

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This credential helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives. Earning AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty validates expertise in building, training, tuning, and deploying machine learning (ML) models on AWS.<br
Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty is intended for individuals who perform a development or data science role and have more than one year of experience developing, architecting, or running machine learning/deep learning workloads in the AWS Cloud. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:
• At least two years of hands-on experience developing, architecting, and running ML or deep learning workloads in the AWS Cloud
• Ability to express the intuition behind basic ML algorithms
• Experience performing basic hyperparameter optimization
• Experience with ML and deep learning frameworks
• Ability to follow model-training, deployment, and operational best practices

AWS Certified Security - Specialty

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AWS Certified Security - Specialty validates your expertise in creating and implementing security solutions in the AWS Cloud. This certification also validates your understanding of specialized data classifications and AWS data protection mechanisms; data-encryption methods and AWS mechanisms to implement them; and secure internet protocols and AWS mechanisms to implement them.

AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty

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This credential helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives. Earning AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty validates expertise in using AWS data lakes and analytics services to get insights from data.

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty is intended for individuals with experience and expertise working with AWS services to design, build, secure, and maintain analytics solutions. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:
• Five years of experience with common data analytics technologies
• Two years of hands-on experience and expertise working with AWS services to design, build, secure, and maintain analytics solutions
• Ability to define AWS data analytics services and understand how they integrate with each other
• Ability to explain how AWS data analytics services fit in the data lifecycle of collection, storage, processing, and visualization

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