Learning and exam prep

At A Cloud Guru we have students from all walks of life from subject matter experts looking to expand their skill sets to IT novices trying to get a foothold. No matter your background, we understand that it can be overwhelming to know where to star...

Practice Exams that match the exam experience What is a Challenge Lab in a Practice Exam? It’s a chance to test your ability using a hands-on approach! Similar to our Challenge mode for Hands-On Labs: complete an objective independently then...

Vendor exams are constantly changing, and our observations are that the question pool often include fringe topics that while not included in every exam may show up on some exams. Like the vendor final exam, we include some of the fringe topics in t...

The AWS exams are a challenge. Many students struggle with how to answer AWS questions. They are very well written questions that require you to both understand the questions and know the technical detail of the offered answers to determine which ar...

Failing a 1st attempt at an AWS certification exam sadly still happens. When we discuss this with students it most often comes down to a lack of appreciation of the nature of the AWS exams leading to a lack of preparation. The AWS exams are well wri...

Many students seek out practice questions as study aids. If used in the wrong way they can actually be harmful to your learning, your career, and chance of passing the exam. Used in limited numbers and in a a thoughtful way practice questions can b...

We have had a number of questions about the snapshot process on EC2 RAID disks.  Below I hope to address some of the issues raised. What is RAID? Let's start with what a RAID set is. A RAID set is a group of disks (2 to 18+) that are cont...

In RAID snapshots on EC2 we talk about what RAID is and why you need to take special care when backing it up. In this article we will explore the applied options for doing this. Applied RAID backup The key is to flush the caches and ensure that ...

The Issue The AWS Certified Big Data - Specialty exam is reaching end of life and AWS has announced a replacement planned for early 2020. The A Cloud Guru AWS Certified Big Data - Specialty 2019 (opens in new tab) course continues to align well w...

How does the Skills Assessment work? The Skills Assessment is an evolving assessment that helps establish a baseline for your knowledge and any skill gaps. At the beginning of the Skills Assessment, you choose your skill level along with your speci...

From time to time students reach out and ask to get the slide decks and exam hints tips as a download for review. Unfortunately, we have to decline these requests. There are several reasons all of which contribute to this decision. There is a rea...

Learning paths are recommended paths through our course catalogue geared for specific disciplines. By following a learning path, you can be sure you're on the right track to gaining specialist knowledge, fast. First, you need to decide on a lea...

From time to time students report getting a question on the exam that they felt was not in scope for that exam, or not taught in the course. Why was this question on the practice test/exam? The nature of many vendor exams is that any service in th...

Students come to A Cloud Guru from a wide range of work and educational background. Some from formal academic study, some from Vendor courses, and some from self reading. Philosophies of education range from teaching broad knowledge to teaching to a...

At A Cloud Guru we have students studying with us from all walks of life. Some are seeking their first full time job and want to build a future in IT and some have 20 years in the industry and are wanting to expand their skill sets. A common questi...

The module quizzes are aimed to reinforce and check that you remember that module's concepts—which is good to help with learning but is not representative of the vendor exams. If provided with your course, the practice exam at the end sho...