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1. Far more difficult than the actual SA exam, but prepares you for the others too
   As another reviewer pointed out, the practice exams at the end of each chapter are far more difficult than any question you’ll receive on the SA Associate exam. This book contains more information than you need to pass the Associate-level exam and seems written to be somewhere between Associate and Professional.I can’t speak for the digital component as I never tried it, but this is an excessively comprehensive (but good!) study guide for the Associate exam and probably a decent resource for the Professional exam alongside a Professional-specific book.I’m not sure if I would recommend this to someone coming into AWS with no prior experience, but I would recommend they buy this book as a second guide after purchasing something a bit more high-level first.Update (09/05/19) : I just passed the SysOps Admin course, which I did not use this book to study for. As I expected, this book covered material also in that exam and I suspect the last chapters of this book (the CD/CI stuff) will be useful for the DevOps Associate exam. I had given this book to someone months ago who was studying for his AWS Solutions Architect exam, but I’ll be ordering a second copy now to help prepare for the DevOps associate and maybe even the two Professional-level certifications. Upgrading to four stars.Update (12/09/19) : I passed the DevOps Associate as well. This book covered the AWS development tools (AWS Code Pipeline/Commit/Deploy, API Gateway, Lambda, and some others) sufficiently that I was able to take an in-depth DevOps exam with enough understanding of the concepts and services to develop my own website with various AWS integrations for practice.Buy this study guide for the AWS Solutions Architect exam, but hang on to it for SysOp and DevOp too. There’s more detail in this book than in the three Associate exams combined (I doubt you’ll ever be asked to compute DynamoDB Read Capacity Units and Write Capacity Units for example), so I’ve been going back to it now that I’m studying for the Solutions Architect Professional exam.Buy it with the confidence that it’ll see you through your complete certification journey, so long as you are diligent enough to do your own hands-on as well. Upgraded to five stars.

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2. Solid study guide
   The book covers well the AWS core services and technologies – if you absorb everything in the book you will be prepared for the exam. There is no substitute for hands-on practice, and the AWS tutorials online are a great resource – but this book is a great tool to show you where to focus your time.The practice tests at the end of each chapter showed me my weak spots. Then study and re-test using the online material — chapter practice questions online, the two full practice tests and flash cards.I did not have any trouble getting access to the online material.

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3. Excellent overview. Lots of material and quality practice questions.
   Incredibly thorough overview of key AWS Services. Much like a couple other reviewers pointed out, the practice questions at the end of each chapter are difficult and tricky. Having said that, it has forced me to better understand the material. I’ll follow up with this review after completing my exam.Regarding the online resources, I too had problems with my access code and account. After contacting Wiley tech support, they quickly remedied the issue with my account and I now have access to the online material. It sounded like they are aware of the issue at this point.——Update 7/15/19I sat for my CSA exam on July 3rd and passed. I’m downgrading this book to 4 stars as it did not cover some subjects in more detail, that the exam certainly asked plenty of questions about. Below is a list of topics that I wish this book covered in way more detail. I feel like this book is still solid material for the CDA exam as well, so it has some solid overlap.Topics this book does not cover well:1. Making DynamoDB more performant (DAX).2. Kinesis. This book barely scratches the surface and is important to know.3. API Gateway. Again, this book barely covers the topic.4. AWS SQS. More detailed information needed on this topic.5. AWS SWF.

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4. Outstanding resource
   This is a very well written book. Not enough by itself(no single exam prep resource is imo) but extremely useful in conjunction with other training material. Cloud Practitioner book by the same authors is very good as well. I would rate this 7 stars.I hope the authors write a book on the AWS Security exam — we need a variety of quality material in that domain.

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5. Me ayudo a certificarme
   Según mi opinión es muy buen libro, me ayudo mucho a entender mas en profundidad de algún servicio sin la necesidad de entrar en detalle. Para el enfoque de una certificación, me sirvió mucho y ya tengo mi primera certificación.Ahora compre el libro de Developers que debería salir luego, que también lo usare para sacar otra certificación.

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6. Errors galore. But plenty of good stuff.
   Just passed the exam yesterday after preparing with this book for about a month (plus years of hands-on experience), but the test was hard and covered lots of material that this book didn’t cover. Also plenty of stuff in the book that never came up on the test. My biggest annoyance with the book is that there are lots of errors and the material could have been written better and clarified more. Overall I found the book valuable and I think it taught me things I needed to know to pass the exam. I recommend the book, especially as it is the “Official Study Guide” but I can’t help wondering if there might be better books out there.

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7. Its a good book!
   This book is actually really great. Havent read more than the 1st 3 chapters because ive been busy with work but, it is very easy to learn with this book.

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8. Knowledgeable, good book

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9. El libro llego con hojas rotas, y la portada en muy mal estado.

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10. Value for money

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11. yes its in good condition

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12. The book is good starting an AWS journey. The wording is very accurate and easy to follow. However, it is a litte over-descriptive if you are already an experienced IT engineer.

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