AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Official Study Guide: Associate Exam

This book ranks among the best technical books I have read. It ‘tics the boxes’ for having the appropriate content (scope of the book matches that of the exam) and level of detail, but what makes this book ‘great’ is the context and reference to operational best practices. For those with an ITIL or similar background the book will be especially rewarding as the AWS services and their operation are explained in a way that aligns with industry standard operational best practices.For me, this made the book more accessible – this is a book you can sit down and read. That said, the material is dense - read this (if possible) a chapter per sitting, when you are fresh, and take some time to think over what you read. I spent quite some time thinking ‘so how would this apply to a large scale production system’. Also spend time on the ‘Exam Essentials’ at the end of each chapter they are ‘gold’.Another reviewer mentioned ‘poorly formatted’. I completely disagree. The book is formatted the same as the SA Cert prep book – chapter, then exam essentials, hands on exercises, and a set of ~20 questions that are chapter specific. I found it easy to jump back to the appropriate section if I missed a question in the chapter quiz. I also found the order in which the authors presented topics to be well thought out, which also helped with ‘readability’.I received the book late in my prep for the exam, and delayed sitting for the exam as a result. I did have a concern that the book and my previous study materials would not align, but this was not the case. The book is ordered differently than the ACG online course, and in most cases the book provides more context and examples. I found a combination of the online course and the book very effective in helping me retain both concepts and facts (and you need both to pass this exam).My path to certification included this book, the A Cloud Guru SysOps online Cert course, and two different ‘practice exam’ products, (one from Whizlabs and one from BrainCert.The book mentions using practice tests as a study aid, and I am a proponent. I took every practice test available, then went back to review the wrong answers on every practice test 3-4 times over the course of several weeks to understand why the right answer was the right answer. This often led to reviewing the AWS documentation on a specific subject.

I purchased this book on Kindle which was available 3 weeks or so earlier (end of September 2017) than it release date (October 2017). During my AWS SA architect exam, I used official guide as one of the resource and it was very useful, especially, flashcard and online tests. This book not only focus on certification but also provide more useful views. Certain places, I felt reading documents could be more useful though. I am appearing in the SysOps Exam hence spare one start. After Exam, I will revisit to update my review. But, I would definitely suggest to buy and go over before exam for anyone as of now (Oct 2017).Updated on Nov 4th, 2017 ---with my AWS SysOps Exam and hence I thought to update my review as I promised.As I mentioned earlier regarding AWS SA Certified exam guide, I would suggest everyone preparing for the exam to buy this book at least to practice for its companion online test bank and flash card for last day review. I literally found several of questions from test bank appeared in my exam while few more were closely resembling. While I read almost entire book even though it is too much descriptive and often difficult than AWS document, but at the end of Summary section, quick tips and exercise are very useful resources. And Assessment test at the beginning of the book and 2 online-only tests are great way to gain confident before facing a real exam. I also believe at the end of chapter exercises would definitely useful for someone preparing for Developer Exam as most of them are command line based instruction instead of console based. I believe author may have intentionally developed all this exercise to help from developer perspective. With so many video based training makes learning easy, but books always helps to fill gaps.Overall, I would recommend anyone to buy this book who is preparing for exam.It is money well spent. And also changing from 4 to 5 start.

WS SysOps Associate certification guide is one of the many many resources to prepare for the exam, along with official AWS white papers and FAQs. Book authors are very experienced people and managed to got all concepts needed covering for the exam.Also, the book has an assessment at the beginning so you can do it before and after reading and end of chapter questions to measure level of understanding and where to reinforce knowledge. Those are sitar.to real exam questions helping new students get a feel of the questions. Some are fact based and many are small scenario based to prove you understand where each technology or product is more appropriate in a situation.Book does not teach you how to use he services in detail, which you be very long and not covered in the exam, you need to look at AWS tutorials and how to documentation, but it presents exercises as a cookbook so you can follow along and see things working.I think I saw few errors in two or three phrases but nothing that takes value away, surely correct in next print editions.Book also has much valuable exam tips and items to keep attention at the end of each chapter. I recommend if reading it once, review those factual information one more time.Last, the book will give you access to online exams simulations at a Willey portal. I haven't tried yet but assuming they are same very good quality as the original AWS Solutions Architect guide book, this will help gauging how well prepared you are for the exam.

Very glad I bought this. Not only does it help you to delve into the essential AWS stuff very quickly, you also acquire a very methodical and streamlined approach to the exam prep.

It is good enough to use to pass the SysOps and the SA exam. It is a little out of date because Amazon is adding features too quickly! haha. Luckily the content of the exams lag behind reality as well. I used a couple of other free resources to aid my study. Maybe it didn't cover SQS enough.

Excellent book, it covers all the aspects of the SysOps exam.

Sorry, this book is terrible. Just so much fat that could be trimmed. Wall after wall of just text with no technical walkthroughs or usable CLI examples of how to use AWS. The examples (I want to say just example) provided will not even work unless the same instance is spun up on the VPC. Would have been nice to start the book with, "lets setup a small lab so that the rest of the examples presented will work"The book goes like this. Big wall of text followed by "lets install and use boto", about six lines of python code, followed by another wall of text, then finally, "click this link to learn more about boto uses and features". Not asking for the full documentation in the book and I understand the book is all a high level overview for obtaining certifcation, but where is the real world value?Book returned the day after.

This is a decent book to get you prepared for the exam. It covers all the topics in detail. Some chapters go beyond the exam scope however it's always to know more than not enough. There's a lot of theory here so best to take your time rather than rush through it all.At the end of each chapter you have a couple of tasks to complete followed by a few questions to check your chapter knowledge. The answers to those questions are at the back of the book so you can check if you've answered correctly. I feel that the tasks at the end of each chapter are very, very basic, probably ok for someone who's starting out with AWS but certainly a waste of time for someone who's been using it for a while.I would NOT recommend this to someone who has not used AWS before as there are quite a few mistakes in there such as incorrect answers, incorrect images, incorrect descriptions which are easy to pick up if you've been using AWS for a while but this being an official AWS book, it should not have such simple mistakes.