AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide with 900 Practice Test Questions: Associate (SAA-C03) Exam (Sybex Study Guide)

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If you're like me, you can't stand online trainings. I don't need to see powerpoints, videos, or hear someone narrate or provide a lecture. This book lets you read at your own pace and has everything you need including an online question bank with 900+ questions and practice exams. I used this book and passed on my first try. Years ago I used the first version to pass the original SAA-C01 exam as well. It worked then, and the updated version works now.

The book is good but is missing some information, most likely Amazon updating their services. I know that happens often. Just as an example off the top of my head. Lambda@Edge is not mentioned and Elasticache sharding is not mentioned either. There are a few more that I cannot think of off the top of my head. Bottom line, if you use this book, use it with the AWS Documentation page.https://docs.aws.amazon.com/

This is a well written study guide which puts the most emphasis on common questions on the exam.Personally, I don't think you can just read this book and pass the exam with no other AWS knowledge. But combine this book with sample questions form many sources and some hands on experience with AWS and you should be fine.

I haven't taken the exam yet, so I can't say how complete this is for that. However, I learned a lot from this and am using it as my starting point for more. Great work!

This book has clearly not been updated or proofread in a few years. Some of the end-of-chapter review questions contradict explanations in the chapters themselves. Some of the content is also outdated.For example, I learned quite well from the book (and practice exams on the website!) that S3 has several eventually-consistent operations. I was quite surprised when I took a different practice exam and answered each question related to that topic incorrectly. The AWS documentation states that this was changed in 2020 and all S3 operations are now strongly consistent. The editors of this book have not noticed this error for 3 years.It's difficult for me to be confident in the accuracy of other material in the book and I'm now searching for other study options.

I like the layout of the book better than C02. I like that the answers to the chapter questions are within the chapter vs. at the end of my digital book. Also, the labs are now in the second part of the book versus having to stop at each chapter to do the labs. Those two things made it worth the purchase for me.

I used this book as part of my preparation for the exam and happy to say I passed on first try. As another reviewer has stated, the review questions at then end of the chapters are not representative of actual exam questions. This is especially the case in Part 1. The review questions at the end of the chapters in Part 2 are more representative.The info is very good though to form the base knowledge necessary for the exam, and the information is presented in a well structured and concise manner.I would highly recommend combining this with other learning, training and prep materials, particularly the very good set of sample tests from Jon Bonso, as well as the official practice exam offered by AWS.Also, as another reviewer noted there are some glaring errors in the book, that resulted in some incorrect responses on the practice exam (and maybe the real exam.... who knows). An example... the book states maximum retention for Kinesis Data Stream messages is 7 days... according to AWS documentation it's 365 days.Summary, good book to read cover-to-cover as recommended by the authors, but combine this with other materials to learn and prepare for the exam.