This year has been busy, from the beginning of December of 2020 I started on a journey to pursue many of the certifications I’ve been procrastinating on. It started partly because I had a plethora of time since my fall semester was more hectic than usual so I didn’t allocate enough time for the exams I was pursuing or underestimated. Never again.
Starting in January – Aviatrix Multi-Cloud Network Associate
This certification tests the various challenges faced with companies in day 2 operations after cloud adoption. It is far more complex than I anticipated due to minimal exposure to AWS and GCP at the time but it was a intriguing course that exhibited the use case of multi-cloud. I’m a huge fan of this software suite which is a license that you can integrate in your cloud environment, and deploy resources into various cloud service providers. I’d really like to dig deeper into this company webinars that I’m frequently recieving emails for because, multi-cloud is definitely the future of cloud computing. Study time for this was a total of 10-14 hours used materials provided by Aviatrix, along with documentation and case studies provided and various YouTube videos.
February – AZ-104 Azure Administrator
While I believed initially this would be a simple exam, I’ve previously failed this exam multiple times partially due to inadequate preparation so therefore this was on my hitlist because I never give up on a challenge. The hardest part of moving into Microsoft exams is the difference in questions and complexity. Early on I sought out this certification due to the demand for Azure expertise in my region SoCal. Regardless of preference, I’m a still a MSFT advocate not only because I’m a shareholder but because the ecosystem is powerful. This certification covered in depth storage, resources, app services, containers and security. Recommend doing labs as Azure is very generous with offering of free credits and I believe github has a repo with step by step labs to help assist in learning.