https://severinbucher.com/tags/certification/Recent content in Certification on Severin Bucher | BlogHugoenMon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://severinbucher.com/posts/my-4-step-study-plan-for-passing-the-aws-solutions-architect-associate/Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://severinbucher.com/posts/my-4-step-study-plan-for-passing-the-aws-solutions-architect-associate/<p>As a web engineer doing full-stack work, I&rsquo;ve spent years inside the AWS ecosystem. EC2, DynamoDB, Redis, Lambda, API Gateway, and S3 are part of my daily toolkit. I was comfortable building and deploying on them, but I also knew there was a lot of AWS I&rsquo;d never touched and a lot of architectural reasoning I&rsquo;d never had to do explicitly.</p> <p>So this year I set myself a goal at work: pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. I wanted to go deeper on the services I only knew at the surface and get better at designing whole systems rather than wiring up the parts I already knew. I passed the SAA-C03 on my first attempt with a score of 903/1000, and this is the plan that got me there over about nine months.</p>