u/dannymanSir
▲ 75 r/AWSCertifications
Passed Security Specialty within 15 days of Architect Professional! 795!
Please use this as a testament, that if I can do it you can do better!
Everyone fears practice exams. They assume, a poor score, means you are not ready! Let me change that perspective for you!
When I gave the skillbuilder exam with no prep the day I passed CSAP, I scored 60%, after studying, I scored 45% for the same questions. This is called the knowledge paralysis bias!
My TD practice exam scores were 61.43%, 58.57%, 55.38%, and 37.14%
But that did not let me down!
I used my wrong answers to study why they were actually right, and for answers I got correct, I studied why the incorrect answers were incorrect.
This sub has many pass cases, I read all posts end to end to see what are the tips and tricks I could find!
Topics that came for my exam were:
- GuardDuty findings
- Trusted Advisor
- Support
- IAM policy review
- Design security strategy - multiple drop downs
- IAM permission sets
Around 8 questions were exact replicas from TD, however, I think Stephane's questions were more aligned on the difficulty for this exam.
u/dannymanSir — 3 days ago
Yes, you heard that right!
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And Air India is one of them!
Since many of us are Star Alliance Gold (Air India or Lufthansa), this is a great opportunity for us to status match into STE+
In India, SkyTeam carriers such as AFKL, Kenya, Vietnam, can be used to benefit this status.
At the moment, other STE+ status matches cost us 300 USD, while this one is for 80 EURO.
u/dannymanSir — 6 days ago
In the age of Artificial Intelligence, securing AI workloads should be of uttermost priority across all layers of the OSI model!
I see 95% of people on LinkedIn harping over AI, but they cannot tell the basic difference between AI and GenAI.
It's the same case for GRC professionals. Most of them do not know the overlap between threat modeling and application architecture risk assessment!
Certifications such as AI fundamentals and practitioner will only give you your fancy badge and learning credit hours without the actual learning.
I would request us Indians to be one step ahead and start learning how to secure AI workloads in whatever profession of cybersecurity you may be in, else we're losing the plot!
One way to do this is to understand the fundamentals of AI. Where is it hosted? how does it run? what was the evolution from ML to AI!
and then move towards how to think like an attacker.... how do I corrupt LLM data, and so on!
u/dannymanSir — 12 days ago
▲ 146 r/AWSCertifications
Please use this as a testament that If I can do it, you can do much better!
This exam humbled me with what I knew about the cloud!
I used Cloud Exam Ready (deprecated), TD and Stephane's practice exams. All my practice exams were around 45% to 60%, but that did not disappoint me!
In the words of Ana Perda, 'Do practice exams, not to check the score, but to learn. Here is where your real learning starts'
I went back and studied why my answer was wrong and simulated scenarios in my head to where I can use my wrong answer instead.
And If I got an answer right, I didn't focus on why the answer was right, but why the other answers was incorrect, then simulated scenarios where I can use those wrong answers!
There some really silly mistakes I made during the exam, but alas, that's part of the learning!
I hold the Associate Architect and GCP Architect certifications, so the concepts were familiar!
u/dannymanSir — 18 days ago