So I posted about the AWS CSA-A exam on Hackernews about 8 months ago.<p>Happy to say that I passed it using the ACloudGuru course, with some 900+ rating.<p>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.<p>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.<p>My two questions are:<p><pre><code> - 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?
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P.S.<p>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.