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AWS Certified Database – Specialty

Written by Annika Thiemann on . Posted in AWS Training, Certifications, Training.

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

Prerequisites

To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam. The exam features a combination of two question formats: multiple choice and multiple response. Additional information, such as the exam content outline and passing score, is in the exam guide.

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Exam

AWS-Certified-Database – Specialty-Exam

Recertification

AWS certifications are valid for three years. If you want to maintain your AWS certification status, you must periodically demonstrate your expertise through recertification. Recertification strengthens the overall value of your AWS certification and demonstrates to customers and employers that your credential includes current AWS knowledge, competencies, and AWS best practices.

Recertification for Specialty Certifications

Take the current Specialty exam

You can take the current Specialty exam for the certification you already have. For example, if you are an AWS Certified Security – Specialist, you can take the current AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam to recertify. You can use your 50% discount voucher from the Benefits section of your AWS Certification account to re-certify or use it for any future certification exams you want to take.

AWS Certified SAP on AWS – Specialty

Written by Annika Thiemann on . Posted in AWS Training, Certifications, Training.

Prerequisites

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

Exam and recommended training

To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified: SAP on AWS – Specialty exam. The exam features a combination of two question formats: multiple choice and multiple response. Additional information, such as the exam content outline and passing score, is in the exam guide.

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

Written by Annika Thiemann on . Posted in AWS Training, Certifications, Training.

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified Security – Specialty is intended for individuals who perform a security role and have at least two years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:

  • Five years of IT security experience in designing and implementing security solutions and at least two years of hands-on experience in securing AWS workloads
  • Working knowledge of AWS security services and features of services to provide a secure production environment and an understanding of security operations and risks
  • Knowledge of the AWS shared responsibility model and its application; security controls for workloads on AWS; logging and monitoring strategies; cloud security threat models; patch management and security automation; ways to enhance AWS security services with third-party tools and services; and disaster recovery controls, including BCP and backups, encryption, access control, and data retention
  • 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
  • Ability to make tradeoff decisions with regard to cost, security, and deployment complexity to meet a set of application requirements

Prerequisites

To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam. The exam features a combination of two question formats: multiple choice and multiple response. Additional information, such as the exam content outline and passing score, is in the exam guide.

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AWS-Certified-Security – Specialty-Exam

Recertification

AWS certifications are valid for three years. If you want to maintain your AWS certification status, you must periodically demonstrate your expertise through recertification. Recertification strengthens the overall value of your AWS certification and demonstrates to customers and employers that your credential includes current AWS knowledge, competencies, and AWS best practices.

Recertification for Specialty Certifications

Take the current Specialty exam

You can take the current Specialty exam for the certification you already have. For example, if you are an AWS Certified Security – Specialist, you can take the current AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam to recertify. You can use your 50% discount voucher from the Benefits section of your AWS Certification account to re-certify or use it for any future certification exams you want to take.

AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty

Written by Annika Thiemann on . Posted in AWS Training, Certifications, Training.

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

Prerequisites

To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty exam. The exam features a combination of two question formats: multiple choice and multiple response. Additional information, such as the exam content outline and passing score, is in the exam guide.

Test

AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty

Recertification

AWS certifications are valid for three years. If you want to maintain your AWS certification status, you must periodically demonstrate your expertise through recertification. Recertification strengthens the overall value of your AWS certification and demonstrates to customers and employers that your credential includes current AWS knowledge, competencies, and AWS best practices.

Recertification for Specialty Certifications

Take the current Specialty exam

You can take the current Specialty exam for the certification you already have. For example, if you are an AWS Certified Security – Specialist, you can take the current AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam to recertify. You can use your 50% discount voucher from the Benefits section of your AWS Certification account to re-certify or use it for any future certification exams you want to take.

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty

Written by Annika Thiemann on . Posted in AWS Training, Certifications, Training.

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

Prerequisites

To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty exam. The exam features a combination of two question formats: multiple choice and multiple response. Additional information, such as the exam content outline and passing score, is in the exam guide.

Recommended training for this certification

Data Scientist

Developer

Optional:

  • Math for Machine Learning (elearning)
  • Linear and Logistic Regression (elearning)
  • Speaking Of : Machine Translation and NLP (elearning)
  • Seeing Clearly: Computer Vision Theory (elearning)

Exams

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty exam

Recertification

AWS Certifications are valid for three years. To maintain your AWS Certified status, we require you to periodically demonstrate your continued expertise though a process called recertification. Recertification helps strengthen the overall value of your AWS Certification and shows individuals and employers that your credential covers the latest AWS knowledge, skills, and best practices.

Recertification for the Specialty certification

Take the current Specialty exam

You can take the current Specialty exam for the certification you already have. For example, if you are an AWS Certified Security – Specialist, you can retake the current AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam to recertify. You can use your 50% discount voucher from the Benefits section of your AWS Certification account to recertify or apply it to any future certification exam you wish to pursue.