How to Survive Pearson Vue exam glitch nightmare

Intro Recently, I passed the AWS SAA certification, and while sharing your achievement on socials after long months of preparation and grind can be gratifying, some Pearson Vue test takers, didn’t have the same smooth experience, for unexpected challenges due to OnVue software glitches. In this short post, I’ll take you through the surreal blunders …

Azure administrator Associate (AZ-104) certification takeaways

Intro In my journey into multicloud, I started a ritual where I’d write about each certification I pass (GCP, Hashicorp) for my own use and for times when I’m asked for prep tips and takeaways.This time, Azure administrator associate exam is no exception. Whether you’re preparing for an AWS, Azure, OCI, Alibaba or GCP certification, …

Hashicorp Terraform Associate certification takeaways

Intro The thing we usually forget when completing a certification is to save a mental image of the topics that were exciting to learn or the concepts that we had no clue about right before starting the preparation. This is what practitioners should focus on after every major Cloud cert exam, as it provides an …

GCP Associate Cloud engineer certification takeaways

Intro I have been asked lately to share some prep tips after I passed the GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Certification.  Although there are tons of articles online describing the exam content and many resource materials to help prepare for the exam, I decided to share my thoughts around the preparation journey along with my feedback …

70-462 Training Kit Setup Preparation: Hyper-V – SQL server 2012 on Windows server 2012 R2 – Part 2

Here we are in the last section to configure the practice Setup . We will assume at this point that sysprep has been executed on the parent Vm as described in the first part of this Lab (see Part 1>>) and all the VMs have gone through setup process.  OS Configuration Overview This section is …

70-462 Training Kit Setup Preparation: Hyper-V – SQL server 2012 on Windows server 2012 R2 – Part I

Introduction: Training Kit (Exam 70-462): Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases, states that 6 machines are needed in order to complete the lessons and exercises. Though I consider it an overkill for a database administration certification (especially when one only needs 3 machines to try out all or most of Oracle High availability features RAC …