I sat my HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate exam yesterday. I had been using Terraform over the last year, looking at ways of improving the speed and quality of the infrastructure builds on my last contract. Once again I decided to put my knowledge and experience into a certification.
I have been working with IBM AIX for almost 28 years, starting with v3.2.5. Over the years I have considered taking the various certification exams that IBM used to offer but never got around to organising it. AIX has recently been added to their Professional Certification Program so I decided it was time to test myself.
It was time to start putting everything we learnt during the course together. We each worked through a scenario where we were performing a Periodic Inspection and Test (PIAT) on an old aluminium cylinder. First was the recording of information from the cylinder:
I sat my AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam on Friday. I knew I had passed when I had finished, but I had to wait a couple of days for the score, my certificate and my badge.