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09 Mar 2021

Preparing for (CLF-C01) AWS Cloud Practitioner

Cloud Certification

Recently, I posted a quick update about passing the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam and promised to share the steps I took to prepare for the exam. In this post, I'll cover my goals for passing the exam and the resources that I utilized to help me prepare. Goals When I started preparing for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, I had three simple goals: Utilize resources that are available online at no cost (i.e. free!). I am not opposed to paying for training when there is benefit to be had, but I felt that there were enough resources available…

22 Feb 2021

My Cloud Journey Continues

Cloud Certification

Current State About a month ago, I passed the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. About a year has gone by since I passed the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals exam. In the first post of this series, I stated that I'd like to complete the certified architecture paths for both Azure as well as AWS. Roughly one year later, here's where I stand. While I have completed the two initial exams, I really thought I'd be further along by now. I'm also not really surprised, either, since I've been focused on other cloud technologies over the past six to nine months…

17 May 2020

Microsoft Build 2020 – This Week!

Conferences

Microsoft Build, Microsoft’s premier developer conference, starts this week (May 19 – 20)! As I mentioned in this previous post, the Redmond-based company is presenting the entire conference online (for free!). If you have not yet registered for the conference, there's still time so register now! There appears to be a great lineup of sessions and speakers for this year's digital event including some well-known speakers such as "The Scott's" (both Guthrie and Hanselman) as well as the man in charge himself, Satya Nadella. The event starts Tuesday, May 19th at 08:00am (PDT). There are a mix of event types…

04 May 2020

Microsoft Build 2020 – Virtual AND Free!

Conferences

Microsoft Build, Microsoft's premier developer conference, is scheduled for May 19 - 20, 2020. This year, the conference has gone virtual and, for the icing on the cake, it is also completely free! This is going to be 48 hours of continuous content! Everything is being recorded so you can always catch up if you're not up for staying up for 48 hours straight ;-) Starting at 08:00am Pacific time, there will be a total of three sessions presented each day with each session being spread out over eight hours. You should be able to watch live from pretty much…

27 Apr 2020

The Power of Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps, Conferences

This past week, I gave a talk on The Power of Azure DevOps as part of the Virtual Global Azure Day 2020. This talk was recorded and is now available on YouTube if you would like to check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpIts5c_47E&feature=youtu.be If you can't see the video above, you can click here to go directly to the video on YouTube. Also, the PowerPoint slides for the presentation are located here.

24 Apr 2020

Global Azure Day 2020 – Omaha

Azure DevOps, Conferences

UPDATE You can view/download my presentation slides here. This year will mark the seventh annual Global Azure event! In light of the on-going (COVID-19) situation, this year's Global Azure Day in Omaha has been moved online. This virtual event will take place on Saturday, April 25th starting at 08:00 (Central Time). Here is the full schedule for this year's event: I am pleased to be speaking at this year's Global Azure Day on The Power of Azure DevOps. If you are new to Azure and/or Azure DevOps, or you've been around it for a while but are looking to learn…

27 Jan 2020

First Contact!

Cloud Certification

The only constant is... change! So... yesterday, I published My Cloud Certification Journey detailing my (ambitious) plan for obtaining the AWS and Azure Solutions Architect certifications. In a rare, but prescient moment, I included the following quote: No plan survives first contact (with the enemy) Well, less than 24 hours later, plans have changed! I happened to come across this blog post today: Updates to Several Azure and Data & AI Certifications are Coming Soon In the post, the author discusses how Microsoft is reviewing some of the certification exams to ensure the skills being tested are more closely aligned…

26 Jan 2020

My Cloud Certification Journey

Cloud Certification

Clouds on the Horizon While I have been using various aspects of Microsoft Azure for years now, I have not taken the time to go deep into some (many) of the services that Azure offers. For many years now, I have spent most of my time focusing on the Microsoft technology stack. Given that, spending time in Azure has made a lot of sense. We have made some decisions recently within the organization that I work for to start making use of Salesforce. If you are not familiar with Salesforce, just know that it provides a lot of capabilities using…

31 Mar 2019

Global DevOps Bootcamp – Omaha

Azure, Bootcamp, DevOps

If you would like to learn more about DevOps on the Microsoft stack, then plan to join us in Omaha on June 15th, 2019. While we are still working out some of the details, Jeff Bramwell (that's me! :-)) and Mike Douglas will be hosting the Global DevOps Bootcamp in Omaha at Farm Credit Services of America. Event Details Global DevOps Bootcamp is a global event that will be held on Saturday June 15th and is all about DevOps on the Microsoft Stack. Centrally organized by Xpirit and Solidify and offered to you by local partners and sponsors. During this…

27 Jan 2018

Roadmap to Enterprise Quality

Conferences, Quality

For the past few years I have attended the Farm Credit IT Symposium. This years’ symposium was held last week in Austin, TX where I had a chance to present on a couple of topics. One of my talks was titled Roadmap to Enterprise Quality. The description for the presentation is as follows:In this presentation you will learn how Farm Credit Services of America/Frontier Farm Credit transformed their quality practices and tooling to bring visibility and consistency to Enterprise Quality, including: testing as a team approach, creating an automated test architecture, measuring progress with dashboards and standardizing on a set…

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