So I posted about the AWS CSA-A exam on Hackernews about 8 months ago.

Happy to say that I passed it using the ACloudGuru course, with some 900+ rating.

That being said, whenever I look up practise exam questions for AWS CSA-P, I seem to find a lot of conflicting sentiment from the quizes... Some focus a lot on CloudFormation - if CSA-P is 20-30% CF knowledge, then I do not want to take it.

Similarly, I was recommended Adrian Cantrill's course on CSA-A - I notice he has one on CSA-P, and it seems to be quite bespoke to the exam, as opposed to the ACloudGuru one which didn't seem entirely inspired by what was actually asked in the exam.

My two questions are:

  - CSA-P - Is it as heavy in CloudFormation crap as some sites make it seem?

  - Is Adrian Cantrill's course enough to get me through the exam? Is there a cheaper alternative?

P.S.

I know that certification isn't absolutely necessary to getting work with cloud architecture, but I imagine that getting through the door is easiest when I have it. In full-stack-ey roles, I tend to struggle on leetcode style questions, and would like some other value adding proposition to make up for it.