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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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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.

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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.

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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.

AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty

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

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).

Prerequisites

To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified Advanced Networking – 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 Advanced Networking – Specialty

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.

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

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

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

Prerequisites

To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional 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 DevOps Engineer – Professional

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 Professional certification

Take the current Professional exam

You can take the current Professional exam for the certification you already have. For example, if you are an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional , 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.