This article will teach you everything you need to know in order to get any AWS certification from home. You will learn how to schedule an exam, how to set up your workspace for the big day, and tips you need to have in mind.

What are AWS certifications?

AWS (Amazon Web Services) Certifications help validate your knowledge and ability to solve different problems using AWS. They’re a great tool for helping you and others confirm how much you know about this cloud provider.

These certifications come directly from AWS, as they are the ones who produce the content for the certification and maintain them. When you earn an AWS certification you start belonging to a global community of AWS Certified people and you get some benefits for being part of this group.

Currently there are 12 different AWS certifications covering different levels of knowledge and different expertise.

There are 2 different types of certifications: the specialty certifications and the more generalist ones.

In the generalist certifications we have 3 levels of expertise - foundational, associate, and professional. These certifications generally cover most of the services that are available in AWS, depending on the level of depth you need to have.

In the foundational level we have the Cloud Practitioner. This certification covers a lot of AWS services, but you really don’t need much depth.

This certification is perfect for people beginning their cloud journey, as you will learn a lot of different services and concepts that are very important in the cloud.

In the associate level there are 3 different certifications:

• Solutions Architect Associate
• SysOps Administrator Associate
• Developer Associate.

These certifications are also very broad in the amount of services they cover but they go deeper than in the foundational level.

Associate-level certifications are great to get a view of architecting, deploying and maintaining or developing applications in the cloud. These are a good way for technical people to get started in their journey with the cloud.

And at the top of the generalist certifications we have the professional level certifications: Solutions Architect Professional and Developer Associate.

These are very broad and very deep certifications, and you need basically to know everything in AWS. These are meant for people working in AWS for a long time with broad experience.

In the specialist category we have 6 certifications:

• Advanced Networking
• Security
• Machine learning
• Alexa Skill Builder
• Data Analytics and Databases.

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