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Myles Brown: All right. Welcome! Good morning uh! It's going to take a couple of minutes for everyone to join, so we'll give it a couple of minutes before we get started.
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Myles Brown: The way the zoom works, the attendees slowly creep up, so i'll wait till they sort of level out before we get started,
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Myles Brown: this is a Webinar style um presentation. So you won't be able to ask uh questions allowed. You won't be able to turn on your camera. It'll be largely just, Allen speaking, and i'll be sort of uh taking care of the the Q. A. Questions.
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Myles Brown: It looks like things are starting to level out with the number of attendees. So welcome. Good morning for most people in North America.
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Myles Brown: Um! My name is Miles Brown. I work for a company called exit certified and exit certified, is a a trading company. We've been around since two thousand and one one,
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Myles Brown: and we are partnered with Aws have been since two thousand and fourteen as an authorized training partner. Actually, maybe, Alan, if you can,
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Myles Brown: up the next slide there we have a couple of notes about exit certified. Um, it says, here we're a leading it training provider with a ninety-seven percent satisfaction rating from our students. And we have a We have a pretty strong internal team of instructors that have been around for a long time, and we've been doing virtual training for a long time. Uh, we started in two thousand and twelve doing virtual training. We started using zoom in two thousand and fourteen when it shortly after it came out.
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Myles Brown: So when the pandemic came, we kind of switched from probably about sixty percent virtual to one hundred percent.
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Myles Brown: And so we've done a a very good job with that. We now have our training centers across North America are open again. Although most people are still doing virtual training, We do send the instructors to companies to do in-person training quite a bit as well.
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Myles Brown: And uh we, we've seen some success with aws. It's our our biggest partner at this point, and uh last time uh the trading certification team gave out a partner of the year for the Americas. It was, It was us, uh they kind of suspended doing that a little bit during the pandemic.
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Myles Brown: Today we have a great presentation from Allen, who works at aws. He's a senior partner uh development manager with Aws training and certification. He's focused on growing the number of Aws certified builders through global network of Aws authorized training partners like exit certified.
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Myles Brown: He has extensive experience in technology, learning and development with demonstrated success in business development sales, marketing, training, delivery operations.
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Myles Brown: Uh he's been I I've worked closely with Allen for the last few years. He's been a great partner manager for us, and he he really knows a lot about aws uh training and certification. So i'm gonna let him take it over and like I said, i'll I'll sort of be there for the Q. A. I'll talk a little bit about uh some of our courses right at the end of the at the end of the presentation. So, Allen, please take it away. Absolutely. Well, thank you, Miles, and and good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Wherever you may be.
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Allen Middleton: Um, as Miles said, my name is Allen Middleton. My pronouns are he him um, and I am the partner Development manager that works uh directly with exit certified, as Miles said, Exit certified, is our largest and most valued
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Allen Middleton: partner uh delivering authorized training on aws to our builders out in the community, both new and uh experienced,
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Allen Middleton: and they have been
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Allen Middleton: an exceptional uh partner to us. Uh, and a great resource. Their um customer service uh customer Satisfaction stats are through the roof. So if you are considering working with, uh exit certified
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Allen Middleton: uh on your Aws Cloud journey. Um, I highly recommend them. Uh, which is is part of the reason that i'm here today co-presenting with miles
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Allen Middleton: uh today we're going to talk about the value of aws certification. I have a few uh goals for our time today that I hope will align to your interest in joining the session. Um. We'll share some data uh to help you quantify the value of Aws certification.
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Allen Middleton: We'll look at some of the different categories of certifications that are available through aws, so you can see how they are aligned to either your current role, or perhaps one you're thinking about in your future.
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Allen Middleton: Uh, we'll talk about the different methods for taking an aws exam. And what that process looks like because it is a bit of a process. Um! And then, as Miles mentioned, we're going to talk a little bit about the training you can take to help you on your cloud journey to support your certification goals
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Allen Middleton: to achieve uh that sort of um desired certification.
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Allen Middleton: Um, I hope once we cover those points, you will be well equipped to make a decision about moving forward with your plan to get aws certified,
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Allen Middleton: uh, and ultimately put a timeline to that for yourself.
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Allen Middleton: So when we talk about Aws certification, the first question that always comes up is, is there really demand
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Allen Middleton: for cloud certifications in Today's market. And the answer is a resounding Yes,
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Allen Middleton: so this is a stat you've likely seen before one like it. Um there's a shortage of cloud skills today,
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Allen Middleton: and it. Decision-makers are desperate to hire a workforce with adequate cloud skills in order to achieve their business goals and outcomes.
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Allen Middleton: In fact, when surveyed most Decision-makers say that the lack of cloud skills are their number one roadblock to grow their business
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Allen Middleton: um and and most also site um candidates with cloud skills as their number. One hiring priority.
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Allen Middleton: Um cloud skills touch a lot of different functional areas in a lot of different industries. You pull up any job board and input cloud thousands of jobs come up.
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Allen Middleton: So it's just a fact today that if you're in it and thinking about the future, if you're just starting out or thinking about making a career change. Pursuing a cloud. Certification is an investment with a long-term
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Allen Middleton: high yield of return opportunity.
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Allen Middleton: Speaking of future opportunity. Um,
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Allen Middleton: this slide Here references a report sponsored by Dell,
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Allen Middleton: and authorized by the Institute for the future, that surveyed more than two thousand tech business professionals,
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Allen Middleton: and all of the respondents agreed that they believe that eighty five percent is
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Allen Middleton: of jobs that will exist in two thousand and thirty
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Allen Middleton: haven't even been invented yet.
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Allen Middleton: And when you see that statistic, it seems kind of hard to believe. But then you think back to what
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Allen Middleton: has happened in the last thirty years with the growth of the Internet and the cloud that created so many jobs that it makes, you know, perfect sense. There are thousands of cloud jobs available today, and that trend will only continue
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Allen Middleton: so. How can Aws certifications help you in your for your journey?
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Allen Middleton: Um! And let's look at that from sort of the recruiters perspective.
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Allen Middleton: So in a different report published by Hr. Dive just a couple of months ago.
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Allen Middleton: Most recruiters surveyed eighty-five percent
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Allen Middleton: believe that candidates exaggerate their skills on a resume.
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Allen Middleton: One thing that cannot be questioned on a resume
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Allen Middleton: uh which we all know is your calling card to get any job, any promotion, any special project assignment is an authorized certification credential.
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Allen Middleton: So if i'm a recruiter selecting a group of candidates to interview for a cloud based role, i'm likely to prioritize those candidates that have a vendor authorized certification achievement.
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Allen Middleton: So there's no question that a certification validates your ability to perform.
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Allen Middleton: Um in the
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Allen Middleton: uh, I referenced a couple slides ago. The top fifteen Skills employers are hiring for
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Allen Middleton: um aws. Cloud practitioner is cited as the number one most in demand cloud certification.
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Allen Middleton: Why is that
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Allen Middleton: it's because the demand for Aws drives the need for Aws certified professionals So Andy Jassie, who is aws's Ceo
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Allen Middleton: uh recently said that he believes aws currently has only four percent
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Allen Middleton: of the total addressable cloud market.
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Allen Middleton: Um, as we say it aws, and you'll hear this frequently if if if you do become involved. Uh
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Allen Middleton: in an aws Cloud journey.
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Allen Middleton: It is still day one
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Allen Middleton: um to put that into context,
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Allen Middleton: according to Forbes Magazine, aws has half of the current public cloud market
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Allen Middleton: with over a million active accounts. So if one million active accounts represents only four percent of the market today,
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Allen Middleton: we have a very high trajectory coming over the next three to five to ten years.
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Allen Middleton: Ninety-six percent of organizations use cloud in some way, whether that's an application or
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Allen Middleton: project-based initiative or as their total solution.
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Allen Middleton: Um, And they're just getting started. Understanding how the power of the cloud can change and grow their business.
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Allen Middleton: Eighty six percent of those organizations are deploying multiple cloud vendors,
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Allen Middleton: so it's an it professional for someone who aspires to be an it professional
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Allen Middleton: knowing one cloud in today's it stratosphere is not enough.
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Allen Middleton: So
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Allen Middleton: again, the data supports a clear need and demand for Aws certification. So what is an aws certification? So the first thing to know about Aws certifications is that it's a potential uh credential that's earned by you
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Allen Middleton: as an individual. It's not a team. It's not an organization
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Allen Middleton: You personally individually are demonstrating that you have successfully prepared for and passed an exam
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Allen Middleton: that validates your skills through a third party testing proctor.
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Allen Middleton: Um certified by aws
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Allen Middleton: uh to validate your skills.
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Allen Middleton: Aws, certifications, are industry recognized, credentials designed so that cloud builders
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Allen Middleton: uh such as yourself can showcase your Aws knowledge, and skills to your peers.
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Allen Middleton: Um Aws exams are rigorous,
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Allen Middleton: and that means that they are
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Allen Middleton: valuable.
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Allen Middleton: Um Aws certification volume has grown significantly since two thousand and twenty upwards of eighty five percent year over year.
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Allen Middleton: Again. Market demand for Aws Certified builders has generated that growth.
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Allen Middleton: Um, And we anticipate that that trend will only continue.
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Allen Middleton: It's also important to know that anyone can obtain an Aws certification.
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Allen Middleton: So aws does not require any specific training or specific education background for you to take a certification Exam.
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Allen Middleton: If you're a cloud builder or aspire to be a cloud builder, you're welcome to become aws certified. Now there are some ways to help you be successful and certainly completing Aws authorized training content that supports a particular certification or learning path.
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Allen Middleton: Uh, with a trusted partner like exit certified is a best practice.
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Allen Middleton: Um, and one that we see quite frequently uh to contribute to that success. But if you don't choose to do it that way,
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Allen Middleton: that's okay, too.
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Allen Middleton: The other point about Aws exams is that our certifications are created by Aws experts.
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Allen Middleton: So when we create a new certification or add new questions to an existing text,
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Allen Middleton: we gather experience uh experts who either work at aws or at our customers, or at our partner organizations, and they actually decide what's on the exam, what questions we should ask what it should take to pass
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Allen Middleton: um that way. Our exams reflect practical knowledge and skills sourced from people who are actually doing the work every day themselves.
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Allen Middleton: And again, this is part of what makes our certifications high value for candidates, and for the employers that look for those certifications to validate a a skill set of a particular individual.
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Allen Middleton: uh and expect for someone in a particular role or specialty. Um, Again, taking training is a big part of developing that knowledge. And those skills. Um!
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Allen Middleton: I tend to think of training as the connective tissue.
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Allen Middleton: Um that puts everything together and supports you to achieve.
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Allen Middleton: You know, a highly valued uh certification.
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Allen Middleton: So what's in it for you? Um. Why do individuals, builders cloud enthusiasts, leaders, practitioners,
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Allen Middleton: or anyone looking to transition into a cloud career, You know. Why did they work to prepare for and take
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Allen Middleton: Aws Exam. In the midst of all of their other competing priorities uh for time.
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Allen Middleton: The reasons we hear most often from customers, boil down to the following benefits:
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Allen Middleton: First and foremost, I've mentioned already credit to it.
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Allen Middleton: Um, earning an aws certification shows that you meet the bar set by aws. Um! It's an external third party validation. Um! That helps uh sort of quantify your credibility.
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Allen Middleton: Confidence? Um, whether somebody is new to the cloud or is working in what is a very rapidly changing environment. Uh, particularly when you think about things like machine learning um earning a credential seeing that pass score. It helps,
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Allen Middleton: uh give you as an individual to boost that you know It says, hey? You know what you're doing. Keep going. Trust yourself.
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Allen Middleton: to fully uh articulate uh your credibility um in in a day to day setting in a in a setting where you were uh working with a new manager, a new employer, having that industry recognized credentials, sort of highlights your achievement
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Allen Middleton: and speaks for you. Uh, in that regard
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Allen Middleton: uh to establish uh yourself.
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Allen Middleton: certainly opportunity. Um, you know it. Professionals tell us that they are looking to impact their career.
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Allen Middleton: They might be making a career pivot. They might be trying to get onto an exciting project they may want to get promoted. Um, Aws Certification is a very specific milestone on those journeys that can help you get to the next step.
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Allen Middleton: Um, and finally it's motivation.
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Allen Middleton: Um. Candidates often tell us that they need the accountability of setting an exam appointment and a specific goal
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Allen Middleton: to help them prioritize learning, studying,
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Allen Middleton: breaking out of their daily task. List to focus on
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Allen Middleton: uh developing their own individual skills.
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Allen Middleton: Now i'll switch our lens a bit to the organizations that are looking for
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Allen Middleton: and aws. Certified candidates are finding opportunity because
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Allen Middleton: aws certification has real meaning for organizations. It leaders consistently say that by employing aws certified staff
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Allen Middleton: it helps them to build faster. It helps them to improve security.
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Allen Middleton: Um, in their environment. It reduces downtime critical uh downtime, which costs money, as we all know,
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Allen Middleton: um in in keeping folks engaged in their organization. And most importantly, I think, on this slide for me, anyway, is is really the last point which is, drives innovation.
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Allen Middleton: Um. So ninety one percent of it leaders say that by employing Aws certified staff
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Allen Middleton: it serves as a catalyst to identify new and different ways to take advantage of Aws sort of at services
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Allen Middleton: that drive more revenue right?
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Allen Middleton: It Leaders are constantly focused on and challenged with
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Allen Middleton: expanding product offerings and driving uh the top line revenue to increase their bottom line profits. So um aws certified professionals, they say,
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Allen Middleton: help them do that.
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Allen Middleton: So let's shift gears and talk about the certifications themselves.
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Allen Middleton: Um, so Aws offers twelve certifications today
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Allen Middleton: to earn each one. You take a corresponding exam.
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Allen Middleton: One exam per certification with the passing score achieves that certification. There are four levels of Aws certification.
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Allen Middleton: There is foundational,
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Allen Middleton: uh associate, professional and specialty.
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Allen Middleton: The certification structure is designed so that once you've earned a foundational credential,
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Allen Middleton: the most common functional requirements. In most it organizations
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Allen Middleton: so those role-based learning paths
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Allen Middleton: and then get more refined at the professional level, and then really die deep in specific it specialty areas as you gain more and more aws, knowledge and experience.
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Allen Middleton: So the the most common question we here is, you know, where Where do we start?
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Allen Middleton: Um! And the brief answer that Aws suggests. But we don't require
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Allen Middleton: uh is that everybody starts with cloud practitioner. Uh will give anyone who's new to the cloud or to aw specifically
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Allen Middleton: the appropriate foundation that you need. If you have a goal to earn a more advanced certification, and we certainly hope you do. It's still helpful to verify your fundamental knowledge before tackling anything more complex in another exam.
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Allen Middleton: Now you see here that
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Allen Middleton: keyword suggests six months of experience in cloud.
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Allen Middleton: Um, but that's not absolute.
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Allen Middleton: So if you choose to take the uh suggested or recommended training,
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Allen Middleton: and you do some of the other activities that we suggest, and we'll touch on those in a moment when we talk about the classes we recommend, and so forth. Um, you should be in good shape.
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Allen Middleton: Most people start with this certification, whether you have it background or existing, cloud fluency or not, if you're wanting to enter it. This is the perfect place for you to start. Um if you have a cloud adjacent role.
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Allen Middleton: Um, if you're in finance or marketing some of the business areas that are not necessarily in the it Bucket?
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Allen Middleton: Um, but you touch the cloud, and you need a basic understanding of the cloud.
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Allen Middleton: Um, for your functional purposes. This is also a great place to be yet
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Allen Middleton: so that the cloud practitioner exam again, is foundational.
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Allen Middleton: uh languages, and the cost for that uh, is one hundred dollars.
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Allen Middleton: The associate level certifications are going to be more rigorous, and you can see here that Aws recommends
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Allen Middleton: one year of experience solving problems and implementing solutions in the cloud. Now, if you don't have
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Myles Brown: and and there are no there are no like Pre-rex that you have to get an associate before a professional or any of that. But I would say that you definitely need to have the knowledge that you could pass the exam. And um, but we do see, you know, some deeply technical people skipping the cloud practitioner.
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Myles Brown: Um! We usually encourage them to to go for the cloud practitioner, but some people just want to get that first one under their belt it. You know the best practice for an aws exam is to do another. Aws exam right, and so you get that. The idea of what it's like, and and just to talk to something Allen mentioned about the um. You know the online proctoring, you know. Try and get there half an hour early because you are going to have to do a little bit of. You know. You have to take picture of all four sides of the desk that you're working at,
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Myles Brown: and I I found the first time I did one at home uh my office had mirrors on one side. They didn't like that, like you can't have any books or anything near you. Obviously, Um, because they're just going to see your webcam. So so you have to take all these pictures right before the uh, the actual exam. I ended up moving to my kitchen table because that was sort of. There was nothing around.
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Myles Brown: website here. So this is exit, certified Dot Com. If I view the schedule. You know we we have this class running October eighteenth, November first, November eighth, November fifteenth. So almost every week, and uh wherever you see the Gtr. That means it's guaranteed to run.
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Myles Brown: And so these classes all run fairly often. Um! But you know, no matter which certification you're going for we usually have the classes. Now there are two exceptions, where aws does not have an official class That maps
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Myles Brown: And so if you want to get some sap training. But I assume that most people looking for that certification already know sap, and they want to know how to run it on aws. What there is is. If you are an aws partner, part of the Apn. They have
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Myles Brown: The other exam that we don't have a perfect, you know class for is the networking one and the advanced networking specialty. Exam. It talks a lot about, you know, generic
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Myles Brown: uh networking stuff that is not aws specific. And then, of course, it gets into the aws um uh specific services around networking. So we generally suggest that people looking for that they better be networking experts first,
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Myles Brown: and then they can come and take either the architect and class or the Sisops class, and maybe even the advanced architect. Me.
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Myles Brown: Uh, we have a question here any difference in course content between the architecting and the certified architect Associate.
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Myles Brown: well, one of those is the certification, and one is our class. So I I I guess, between these two classes I think if you mean these uh, the difference is,
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Myles Brown: you know, the the second one starts with the first three days is basically, the same content. And then we get into uh some extra exam related topics, and we we do a few practice exams, you know, as a group, so we have lots of classes. Um, um for the various uh exams. If you want to get into it, you know we can always talk to you about it. But what we find is that, you know,
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Myles Brown: moving to the cloud is often a lot more than just. Hey, I need to take some courses on. Aws right. If if you look at a real cloud journey a lot of times, it comprises technologies from a variety of vendors, you know a lot of times these days, people say. Well, we're going to move to the cloud, and we're going to re architect our application. We're going to use micro services. We're going to implement those using containers and kubernetes, you know. Maybe we're going to further embrace devops. And so at exit certified. We built this sort of
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Myles Brown: mit ctl, and what we call cloud Centric's portfolio, and it sort of addresses, training across all these sort of both commercial and open source projects that you might need to learn to build these sort of cloud native-type solutions. One hundred and fifty
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Myles Brown: so we've. We've got some uh pretty great training. It starts here in the middle with, you know, the official aws classes. But then around that we've we've augmented it. We We've got a lot of other topics that might be of interest. So if you're interested at all, uh, you know our websites exit certified dot com
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Myles Brown: uh, you can check it out. You see a lot of stuff in there. Um! The the Cloud centrics diagram you get to pretty quickly. If you go to the topics and look up, cloud, and then you can click on any of those sections and learn more about it.
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Myles Brown: Um! There's a chat right there that you could put you in touch with one of our sales reps. Who can get you started? Um, You probably, if you're in this webinar you may have be already in our database, you probably get some marketing through us. One of the things we do is, you know, if you're an Aws customer of ours, we usually send out our Gtr email, probably a race six weeks or so, saying, What's the upcoming classes that are guaranteed to run
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Myles Brown: um. So that's that's something that you know if if you're in that kind of hey, I'm eventually gonna go for my say data, analytic specialty. Well, you got to walk before you can run, and so you'll probably start with some introductory training, and then maybe one of those sort of
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Myles Brown: intermediate level, the the architect class, or the Sysops class, and Then you go into the the you know the the big data type class. So these days we've got four. One day classes that we're going to bundle as a four day class, and that that'll get you, you know, pretty much
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Myles Brown: So I think that's a main content we wanted to deliver. I want to thank Allen for his time today. Um! Aws is a really great partner of ours, and we've been.
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Myles Brown: We've been very happy with with the support they provide us. Uh, and the the courseware that they develop. You know they develop this courseware, and then they update it. You know that we're seeing updates almost every two weeks because the cloud is such a moving target. That's why authorized training, I think is so important.
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Myles Brown: Um! Can I share the cloud Centric Link? Ah, yes, I think I can. Um! Let me go find it. I think it's just exit certified slash,
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Myles Brown: Somebody's looking for that link. I think, if I just go to Cloud centric that should get me there. Let me just make sure that i'm
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Myles Brown: Okay? Well, yeah, it redirects to this page. But yeah, that'll get you there, I hopefully, in the Q. A. You can see that it is a hyperlink. I think it should be. Yeah, it is a mine. I don't some people have the hyperlinks in uh in zoom
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Myles Brown: and and like I said, if you click on a section like here that the cloud native and containers, it takes you to all of our courses on that, and you know. So if you want a Kubernetes class,
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Myles Brown: we've got various uh, you know we We partnered with a couple of different companies, for uh, so Marantis is a Cloud native company. They have really great training.
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Myles Brown: Uh, the Linux foundation also has, you know, training that prepares you for their Ck: A. And Ck A. B certifications. So that's that's kind of the idea there. Um the other. The other link i'll put in, is just our Aws training page as well.
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Myles Brown: I mean, if I can put that in there as well, I think that'll work. I can just tack that on top. Yeah, that works.
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Myles Brown: So if there are any other questions uh, we're gonna stick around a little bit here, you can throw them in the Q. A. Um, but um. Otherwise. I I think that Hillary said that we'll be sending this recording out to everybody who registered.
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ExitCertified: Yes, that's correct. Everyone will receive. Everyone who registered will receive the recording by the end of the week.
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Myles Brown: Well, the number of attendees is starting to dwindle.
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Myles Brown: Well, we'll wait a little bit and see if there's any questions that pop up.
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Myles Brown: Oh, so, Fernando! The link to the Cloud Centrics is in the Q. A. Box. If you look at the answered questions in the Q. A. Box you should see. I put a couple of links in there.
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Myles Brown: Okay, I put it in the chat as well. So if you click on the chat, you should see it in there.
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Allen Middleton: Yup. Thanks, everybody.
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