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Bread and butter from React and Rails, but currently exploring Linux System Administration and Cloud Solutions/DevOps.
Learning everyday. Follow along with my series on creating Chrome Extensions, Desktop Apps (soon), and PWAs.
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Journey to attaining some Cloud Certifications. In 2023 year I want get all the AWS Associate certifications.
I learned today that my main blog posts should be called "Today I Learned"s. I'm surprised my last post was over two months ago. I've been working on my new Chrome extension project, Chorus, making features, fixing problems, and getting it ready for ...
TLDR: Fix a bug, package and upload to Developer Dashboard, fill forms, submit for review, and look at analytics after going live. In this post, we want to create and submit an initial release for the Chrome Web Store and upload it to Github. Before ...
Here's a recap of what we want to accomplish for the first feature: Either disable or remove all the Add to queue UI (on hover and via the dropdown: Enable or disable the first feature by clicking on the extension in the toolbar, which controls t...
Building a Youtube Add-on to Regain Control of Queue Playlist
TLDR: This article demonstrates how to use AppleScript to control Spotify and display song information in a tmux status bar. Tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables several terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. T...
I have decided to tackle the AWS Associate Level Certifications. I plan to do them in this order: Solutions Architect, Developer, and SysOps. Within the next few years, I would love to transition to working as a Cloud/Solutions Architect and/or DevOps Engineer, and certification would greatly help with the switch. At my current position, there's not much opportunity to have hands-on experience utilizing AWS services to create infrastructure in which to deploy applications. I have thus decided to learn it on my own through the Project-Based Learning series.
I find that I retain knowledge better through reading than via videos as one requires more focus, therefore my study will be textbook based. I will generally follow this study plan for each certification:
Read the study guide provided by Wiley for the certifications, such as AWS
Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide Associate (SAA-C03) Exam Fourth Edition. I plan to read 1-2 chapters a day depending on how meaty the content proves to be.
Do the practice tests at the end of the chapter.
Before reading the next chapter, redo the practice tests for all the prior chapters. Hopefully, this helps with some memory retention and faster recall of previous knowledge.
After completing the book and feeling confident about the practice tests I have taken, I will schedule the certification test about a week out. This will give me ample time to review and do some full practice exams to simulate the certification exam. I estimate that preparing for each certification will take me 1 - 1.5 months, so I figure, conservatively and with no retests, to complete all the certs by end of July? Fingers crossed.
This series won't be too long I believe, as there are only 3 certifications I have planned for this year. I only plan on writing a post once I pass each one and linking to the certification. Any change in pace might also warrant a small post to reset my resolve, but I plan to adhere to the timeline above.