I've got 5 days left until I take the solutions architect professional certification test. After taking a diagnostic, I think I will not reschedule but will give it  shot on Saturday. The areas I need to practice are:

• Redshift
• HLS vs MP4 streaming strategies
• Storage gateway
• Placement groups
• Data Pipeline
• Oracle RDS exceptions
• CloudFront
• Kinesis
• DRDB asynchronous replication

On my first pass at the diagnostic in the Linux Academy course I got 33 out of 80 questions incorrect, which is better than my first two attempts at the associate level diagnostic. I sat the exam cold, with no note review. I took slightly more than an hour to complete the test, so I can slow down and read more carefully. The LA diagnostic doesn't allow you to go back and check your answers, just an "Answer Later" option. I felt pretty confident on the concepts I deal with regularly, I just need to practice is a couple of areas, slow down and read the questions more thoroughly, review my notes, and I think I'll be ready to take the plunge.

The best exam tip I have received so far is to read the last question paragraph sentence first, then read the question completely, then read the answers completely. That helped me to look for key words in the question to solve for in the answers.

Another thing I need to do is to stop binge-watching "Battlestar Galactica"...