A journey to EMCCAe

"My personal experience to gain Cloud Architect Expert level certification"

In 2007, I started in my Information Technology life. one of my dreams then is to be an architect.

Being an architect is not about courses or certificates, it is all about experience you get in your career, and your life as well.well,I searched for the best way to know the knowledge to be an architect, cloud architect to be more precise because we are living now in cloud computing era. I found that the EMC has a great knowledge path Called EMC CLOUD ARCHITECT TRACK.
Google it, you will find a 3-stages track to gain the final certificate. See details Many thanks to my employer, They allow me to buy whatever courses I need. I've got them all already.This track contains : 

   1- Associate Level:It is a beginning. You need to choose between two available courses: Cloud infrastructure and services V2 and Information Storage and Management V3.For me, I Recommend starting with the second one. Actually I recommend it to anyone needs to start in I.T field. for more information about course contents, follow this link .The first one is valuable in cloud term, like cloud service model and cloud deployment. See more via this link. For certification,the exam code for cloud infrastructure and services V2 course is E10-002. and for Information Storage and Management V3 is: E05-001 

     2- Specialist Level:The most interesting part with Virtualized Data Center and Cloud Infrastructure Planning and Design  course. It is a mix between Technical knowledge and design experience. As EMC said that the course is intended for architects, designers and consultants who are involved in the planning and design of Virtual Data Center components, including applications,servers, storage, networks and services. See more. The certification exam code is E20-018

     3- Expert Level:The final step with IT-as-a-Service Planning and Design course, it is about "designing solutions that transform business operations and virtualized data centers into IT as a Service (ITaaS) environments." ~ EMC said. See more. The certification Exam code is : E20-918

Practicing before exam is essential, follow this link for all available EMC practice tests

well,that's it for the road map, but what's next?being a cloud architect (Or architect in general) doesn't depend on the certificates you gain or even the above courses. You had the knowledge and that's fine, but experience will differ you from others. Get a project for hands-on experience. Join groups or forums to get experience from different cases. I highly recommend EMC community Network.

Note: Polo T-shirt and Pin are awesome gifts from EMC if you get certified, just be careful while choosing your proper size :)