Tale About Pothead Felix, Who Got AWS and GCP Certifications

Artem Maksymov
5 min readMay 12, 2023
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Once upon a time, there was a guy named Felix, who was born in a poor family. His tend for independence and wish for his family to live a normal life was so strong, he decided to beat this life and came out as a winner.

Mom always told him: “The more you learn, the more you earn”.

Felix had a technical mind set. So, the plan was simple as a pencil: complete local technical university and start a career as a DevOps engineer.

He followed the plan: good marks, regular practice, popularity within university… But something happened wrong: during university studies, his brain was damaged by multiple university parties, alcohol, and drugs. Especially marijuana.

Felix during his job.

This stuff made him stupid and lazy ASF, but his brain was still able to work on his job. The salary was enormous for his age, but as we all know, humans can get used to everything, especially for something good. One year passed, and he started to feel cramped with even big salary.

All salary was spent on bullshit: drugs, fast food, expensive useless stuff.

How Felt himself with his salary.

Felix was upset. His pocket was empty. He required more and more money. The damaged brain removed all his humility, and the best solution he saw was to ask the manager for a salary increase, even when there was no reason for it.

Felix was upset: manager told him, he should get AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification to be promoted to a higher position and get an increase as a result.

As it was mentioned, Felix was a stupid piece of idiot. No way he could prepare himself to pass at least the easiest certification. But Felix was unstoppable on the way to more and more ridiculous money wasting.

Felix’s employer covered the first attempt to pass certification. It was a nightmare for Felix even to imagine that he could fail his first attempt and waste money on some garbage like certification, rather on priceless dope.

His plan was simple: purchase an Udemy Course, watch all the lessons and set an appointment for web exam certification. Days have passed. Laziness made him able to watch an only a couple of lessons a day. Finally, when all series was beat, he went to the example exam section of the Udemy course. Felix felt himself like a lion, he was ready to beat everything that will stand in front of his road and pass the exam on 65/65 score, but…. He freaked up…

The score was 17/65. But why? What happened? Felix couldn’t say appropriately. The first Udemy test exam was failed, but there were 3 more test exams on Udemy.

The next exam was much better. Not successful, but better. It was 25/65. Felix noticed that some questions tended to be repeated. He recalled the correct answers.

And suddenly, the fourth Udemy test exam was successfully. It was 54/65.

Felix realized that all he need was not to be a hard learner, but to pass as much example tests as he could. But all Udemy example tests were exceeded…

Here is the point, where Felix found out about dumps — leaked certification questions. That what he did before exam appointment. He passed ALL the questions. His brain evolved in such a way, he got special cache to recognize similar questions and give prepared answer as fast as he can. He was ready.

The exam day. It didn’t take much time. About 40–50 minutes. Done. Success.

I can’t describe Felix state except “dopamine overdose”. He went to his manager to get his increase. Now the manager freaked up… It was required to pass AWS SysOps Administrator Certification, not Cloud Practitioner, to be promoted.

But Felix wasn’t too upset. He beat the system and got the algorithm for passing any exams, just get the information and pass as many dumps as you can. He was a bit feared because SysOps Administrator Certification was treated by the AWS Engineer as one of the most complicated. But…

The success. Again. Despite his dullness, he passed the examination and was promoted.

Felix was surrounded with hash he afforded from his brand new increased salary, but it made him wonder: for all his life, he was told that: “the more you learn, the more you earn”. However, previous two exams didn’t show it to him. There was no illusion for Felix about himself. He definitely knows he is a dumbass, but he got a salary increase, unlike his friends, who spent much more time on learning unlike him.

He required answers. Furthermore, he decided to check, maybe it’s all a coincidence. He scheduled an appointment in one week to pass GCP Associate Certification. He had just a week to get prepared for the exams, but he was still a pothead, so he started to prepare two days before an exam. There was no time to watch all the Udemy lessons, so he downloaded all the used PowerPoint presentations on these courses. He read 1/3 of all the info. 2/3 was read in 3 hours before exams, done some dumps…

He successfully passed the GCP Associate exam.

He was happy for the first 30 seconds. Thereafter, he realized shocking information. He was lied all the time.

Your learning doesn’t correlate with your earnings.

He was lied for all time.

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Artem Maksymov

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