Sharing Roadmap to the AWS Solution Architect Pro
Tags: aws, certops, community, builders
Published: 2022-07-05 03:42:00

After so many time, finally I could get an old personal objetive: Pass one of the most challenging certifications of AWS, The "AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional" one!

I am sure It took longer than I expected, and I recognize I had periods of procrastination ... 

But, finally I could get it, and here I would like share some of of the highlights of my preparation:

First, I started with aCloudGuru, and their "[Solution Architecture Professional Course](https://acloudguru.com/course/aws-certified-solutions-architect-professional)". I always like this material, and this platform helpme a lot to pass previous  AWS Certification, in both Cloud Practicioner and Associate Levels

Honestly, I didn't feel full confident with only one online course, so I decide to complement it with others platforms, and here is where the [AWS Community Builder Program](https://aws.amazon.com/es/developer/community/community-builders/) goes into action: they gave us, the program members, a really Big help to achieve certifications: a year of access in CloudAcademy.com and a Free Exam Voucher to take any certificaion you want! 

By the way... if you have the chance to be part, don´t miss it!
registration is now open until July 17:
https://aws.amazon.com/es/developer/community/community-builders/ 
If not, always there is a wait list...

So, [CloudAcademy](https://cloudacademy.com/) helpme to complement the content y add preactice with some labs

Another important resources are test set, and for it, since I discovered [Tutorial Dojo](https://tutorialsdojo.com/) I always used it as one of the best options to consolidate knowledge:

The questions are excellent, very close in difficulty to real exam and most important, for each question, the answers are super-well explained, not only the right option, but also the wrong ones, and you learn a lot reading why thinghs are well and wrong!

For this exam, I also use Whizlab practices test: they also have a collection for [Solution Architect Pro](https://www.whizlabs.com/aws/aws-solutions-architect-professional-ft/). I guess I needed an "extra quote" of security feelings and whizlabs helpme with that:

I really liked it too, although these sets were a little extensive: each test have 80 questions, and it took me about  a full day each one. But behind each question they have really good explanations and links to official AWS docs to go in depth with many concepts....

So, after a few months, with a little of procastination from my side, diving with first-class preparation resources and takin inspiration from the communities were one belong.... In my case, thery are **TheNinjaProject** and the **AWS Community Builder program**, with the help of exam vouchers and deadlines... I finally could achieve a far personal objetive of getting the AWS Solution Architect Pro 

![AWS Solution Architect Pro](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/3pf0jqt784hpo3f8h356.png)
 
Also [proudly shared in Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pablo-ezequiel-inchausti_aws-certified-solutions-architect-professional-activity-6947447849290739712-sYS_?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web
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and I hope this experience help/motive/inspire to catch the same objective!

Regards!
Pablo