BeSA Weekly Office Hours

Hello everyone. Uh we are so happy to be back and talking to you again. I hope everyone is having a good weekend and excited to learn a little bit more on the technology as well as behavioral side of the things. My name is Ashish. Some of you may not know me if you're joining it first time. Uh I've been into delivering BESA sessions from long time. It's been three years now. and we want to ensure that you are getting the best benefit of the uh knowledge we have acquired over a period of time and we want to share as much as we can. So thanks everyone for being here today. I'm joined with Pera. So I I'll add her also to the screen. Hey Pera, how are you doing? — Hey. Hi Ashish. Hi everyone and welcome back to our offices. So we want to keep our audience engaged and uh I know a lot of you have been waiting to see us back again. So here we are with some new engaging formats and looking forward to interact again. — Yeah, that was a problem we had like we we got a lot of feedback and we were also thinking about it that between our batches there is a dull period like hey there is nothing happening and then we are ramping up on something and then there is a six or eight weeks of preparation and then everything dies down. So we want to keep that momentum running and that's why we are hosting this live session. We'll give you an idea about what is coming up and how we have created some solutions so that you can engage for long duration and retain that knowledge and keep on hammering that knowledge into you multiple times. That's what we are going to do. So let me quickly talk about some of the things we have want to do it and then we will be moving forward and discussing more interesting stuff as we move forward. Right? But idea is like we want to ensure that you have sufficient content, you have sufficient resources to keep your learning journey going. And I would like to ask one question. Let's start with an icebreaker. This is office hour. We will run it every week till the time we get we are having volunteers who can join like me and doing it today. Maybe next time it will be someone else. But yeah, we'll try to keep this office hours as long as we can so that we can engage with you on a regular basis and get feedback and improve the program we are running into. As a icebreaker question, what is the season like where you are currently? here? Let me ask this question to Ferna. I know how she her answer would be but yeah, let's ask her. What is the season like there right now? — It's like the peak of summer here. So, and I'm based out of Mumbai, India. It's hot and humid and uncomfortable. — Yeah. But then you know uh if to have the fun of the winter or the rains, we don't really have too much winter here. I think you still you need to go through all the phases. — Exactly. You need it and like for me I'm in UK and we have nice summer right now means from last three week it hasn't rained. So that's really a blessing. Seeing sun every day is really something I'm looking forward to. So hopefully for the next more one more month the weather would be like this then it would change to something what they call depressing London weather. But yeah till there is summer I'm enjoying it. Let me check what others are saying about it. This is spring. Uh that is there. It's spring here in US. Uh your t-shirt vessa logo looks great. Thank you so much for that. And then yes it is a spring. Spring is good season obviously that's very interesting one. And it's spring in US. And let's see what else. Eek summer Bangalore okay Bangalore still come on it's not that hot as Delhi or Mumbai Bangalore weather is really nice pleasant and I heard about that long time back people didn't even have fan in their houses because it was never needed in Bangalore but yeah thank you so much so we have like 50 plus people watching it here live and we will quickly get started and give you what we want to do for the next few weeks till we start the new batch let's get started with it now one more poll question that how many of you are joining us for the first time you haven't heard anything about bessa and you have no idea about what is bessa and

what why we are doing these thing I just want to check if there is somebody else somebody here who is joining it for first time so we bring you up to the speed and then we go from here okay regardless I I'll quickly talk about it so that everyone knows why we are motivated to do this on weekend on our free time so this is office hours we'll try to keep it as much question oriented as possible we still have some agenda but we'll try to answer as many questions as we can for you. So talking about agenda we'll do a quick basa recap like what is basa been doing so far. We'll talk about the new initiative we are doing. So things like YouTube video series, testimonial, social media things. So we'll talk about that and then we have volunteers who are helping us a lot and that is all because of them we are able to have this office hours. So we'll discuss all those thing a quick and then self-paced format. Para will give you a walk through that how we are turning the existing content into self-paced format so that somebody who could not join or could not complete it can still keep on doing those labs and still learn from what we have discussed so far. So a quick recap about bessa it's a volunteer-led program. uh this was founded in 2020 by Prasad me and few other volunteers obviously depending on the bandwidth people joined but Prasad and I have been quite regular and then Ferna joined from the next cohort of it and we have now a lot of people who are volunteering for us we focus both on technical and behavioral skill that is the main thing which makes it unique because uh behavioral skills are required and people do not learn it before they go into the job so we wanted to give you the perspective from a SA side solution architect side software architect side how behavioral skills are important. It's completely free. There is no charge on that. Even when you do our lab and there is free of charge like we did last time and everyone is welcome. We have content suiting to every need. Maybe you are already seasoned professional or already have lot of information but still you can find bits and piece of information which can be useful for you. Just as a show of numbers here this we have done so far nine batches. Last batch we completed in March was our ninth batch. We are around 23,000 members now in our LinkedIn group and similar audience into our YouTube channel and thousand plus people regularly join the sessions we delivered things on the right side these are more onetoone things so we do not pay lot of attention nowadays on these 300 plus members has successfully completed the certification again these are number which are publicly when people tag us that's how I know otherwise we do not maintain that metrics and then we used to run some mentoring session before but because of bandwidth we cannot do it at this scale but yeah we will try to see how we can still provide you the mentoring support you need in your career journey so that is a little bit about we have discussed lot of thing in previous batches hey vijendra you are here so if you are on camera I'll add you to screen maybe just want to say hi let me add you to stage vender — hello everyone thank you — how is the weather there vijender you are in Amsterdam — yeah I'm in Luxembourg it's 21 hot as India. — We call it hot. We call it hot when you move to Europe that is considered hot. Different way of looking at the things but thank you. And then we have run these previous batches. If you want to learn about any of these like you are just starting do not know about serverless or networking or fundamental IT concept checklist and that is where you will be finding all this information and there's a wealth of information available here. If you're preparing for interviews or you are looking for some roles which are there in AWS, what is their role in titles like a day in the life of different roles in AWS, different career journeys people have done, common interview questions, then we have talked about end to end hiring process for essay. So there are a lot of playlist available which can really be helpful to you to get started. Okay. Now uh new initiative let me talk about it and Vijendra I can move you off camera so that you will be more comfortable answering question on the chat. So I'm moving you there and new initiative let's talk about it why we are doing it as I said that there was a dull period from batch to batch right so it's like we do a lot of activity batch finishes no nothing happens people go in their own life and then that learning goes down and that's why we wanted to start with this new initiative how we came up with these ideas uh we were obviously looking for these ways but when we started collecting feedback this is what we got as a feedback so we requested feedback from people who attended the program. We had around 148 responses and a lot of ideas came from it. We compiled a list of all the feedback we got what we could do to improve things better and that is how we came to the conclusion like this is what we can start doing on a daily basis or on a weekly basis to help you and thanks everyone who provided feedback. We can see it is a good five people five the blue one is 85% so people are very satisfied with it that makes our efforts worth it obviously there is some more room for

improvement for 14% but yeah we will be there and we want to see this whole thing into blue that people are happy from the efforts we are doing it but yeah there is always room for improvement okay so we have launched something into self-paced learning method and this is the core thing about this particular session we wanted to cover but we'll cover it into later part. So P now will give you a walk through to how the self-paced learning can be done and we will discuss about benefits of it and how to move around it and what benefit what you should do to get started with this. So we'll talk about self-pace learning. So this is one thing which we have started right now self-paced learning is only available for our agentic AI batch which we did last year sorry this year but the last year we had migration and modernization batch also. So as we get time we'll put that also into self-paced format so that people who are joining us from the last batch can still go ahead and claim those certificate and learn from migration and modernization because migration is becoming a essential skill for every solution architect. Lots of customer are moving from on-prim to cloud or from one cloud to another cloud. So that can be really important skill to have. So we will talk about this into later stage and this is all kudos to Pererna. She has done a lot of testing on it and we had to work a lot of with third parties to get this sorted but we are here now. Now talking about YouTube video series. So it's not possible for us to come live every day and then spend time with you. But what we figured out that if we can start sharing some YouTube videos with you in a regular fashion and depending on the specific serieses that is where we could keep the learning uh in a continuous manner. So we have some YouTube video series which is coming up. Let me give some ideas on what is coming up here. So I have some videos on AI infrastructure created that is all the CPU and GPU and DPU is being utilized. How your infinite works, Infiniband works, different network connectivity, different way of AI workload physical foundation. So that I'm publishing into YouTube as a AI infrastructure series. One video went live here last week and then every week on Tuesday we would have videos coming up. So on YouTube you would be finding this information. So this has already been started this first series but other serieses are planned and they will be coming soon. There is another one called just launched on AWS. So whatever new features are coming up we'll talk about that. We'll give you a demo. We'll give you more resources where you can learn about. So you will be always on top of what is happening in the AWS world. And Pamaran Rajes is leading it. He's an AWS fellow solution architect and he been really excited about creating these videos. So we'll try to keep it in 15 minutes. You do not have to spend a whole hour learning about something new. 15 minute you get what is most important about that topic and then you can explore further by additional resources we'll be providing. So that is second thing coming up. Third is uh I am a cloud builder series that is coming from Nurmal. So there are a lot of people who have done great in cloud in terms of either get getting into uh bigger positions or helping community. So we wanted to highlight stories of these people and that will be led by Nurmal Chwaria who would be doing this series which is called I'm a cloud builder and this is my story. So we will have people from AWS community, community heroes, community builder, AWS champions and those will be sharing their career journeys with you and also sharing their technical tips or showing you the cool stuff they are working on. So that series would also be coming up into some time. So that is I'm a cloud builder series. Next one is AWS foundation series. We lot of feedback was there that hey I'm starting up. I do not have a lot of foundation with me right now. Can you help me? Yes, we are. And here Ronaldo is helping us out. So what we are doing here we are picking up skilluer labs which are free and then putting them together into a logical sequence followed by the instruction to complete those lab and giving you the required basic foundational knowledge and that would be also published on YouTube. We are still debating to debate to use it in a live format or into a recorded format. But this would be a good chance for a lot of people who are new and do not have a hands-on experience to go into this foundation series and get more data on that. So that is there. Now I made some last minute changes. So the slide got this change here. So I will talk about one more thing which is the last one here which we just added like 10 minutes back. Sufian is building a series for you which is building AI agent for daily productivity. So yes AI can solve a lot of business problem but can it help me in my daily life? how I can do XYZ which I do on a day-to-day stuff. So that is what Sufian is building. Sufian is a AI AWS authorized instructor and he would be leading this particular series into a video format. So these are the five video serieses which will be starting in two coming weeks and that would give you a continuous way of learning. Now you do not need to engage with every series. If you can yes why not? I would probably look on every single video because all of them are really inspiring of but yes

in case you feel that okay I'm more inclined toward foundation you could go for that foundation but you could also look for like I'm a cloud builder series where you hear real stories from people how they excel so this is what is coming up right so these are the five YouTube video series now just as a icebreaker here I've been talking from long but now what is the most exciting series for you from these five which is coming up what you think we would be more interested Ed in learning into — I think all of them are really interesting from different aspects obviously anything that we get to learn from you is interesting enough so AI infrastructure is something I do not have too much knowledge about so I'm very keen on that and I'm sure a lot of them will be interested because you're going to be teaching that what's launched I mean yes it's very difficult to keep up and I'm sure it's same thing for everybody and having such a series it's like I think it's great. Uh foundations I think you always have to go back to foundations. Uh it's not that you know after a while you know enough sometimes you forget [gasps] and so I think that is good to go back and there's going to be hands-on. So that's even great watching and learning um interacting with people. So I I'll be doing this series. I'm a cloud builder. This is my story. So I would love to hear from people uh and uh them sharing their stories and they'll be also talking about their the architecture projects they've built. So people will be able to learn from them. I'll them and of course I'm looking for the final one also that's daily productivity. I think all of us are so overwhelmed on LinkedIn looking at schools. So this is going to be great. So for me all of them are exciting you know. Yeah, I agree on that means it's hard to pick one of them to be honest. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, but — for all five is the challenge. — Yeah, we we'll try to keep them short. So, we are not looking for long form videos this time on these serieses. We'll try to keep them 15 20 minutes max. So that hey, while having a coffee, while having lunch, you could just turn on the video, listen to it maybe in fast forward mode and then you learn from it. So you do not need to run video on the same speed. What I do sometime like if I have to skim through I just put the speed faster and then I listen it and if I okay this is really interesting I have to dive deep then I make it normal speed and then go from there. So yeah those things can be really useful but yeah all interesting series and these are few ideas which we implemented and I I'll we have like list of 30 plus ideas which we are willing to implement provided we have bandwidth and provided we have support available from the community. So, so we'll keep on adding more things here to ensure that you have the best of the world to learn from it. Okay, good. Thank you. Another feedback we got was hey, you need to be little bit more vocal on social media and that we were not because I have never used Facebook. Instagram but thanks to volunteers who are helping us in this particular case. So, we have now Facebook page for social media on Vesa and we also have Instagram account on that. They have just started. So, there is no content on that. I I'll be recording my first video from mobile this time. Somebody asked me that hey, you should put one video there. So I I'll be doing that today. But yeah, we will be doing lot of information sharing through the short form content and try to reach more audience through Facebook and Instagram. So if everyone is here can just scan this QR code and please join and please follow the Bessa page because we obviously have not advertised it. This is the first time we are sharing this information with you. So it would be good to have few followers and then we would be able to move forward from there. Is this AI info about Nvidiaert? I'm really looking to curated content on one page. Uh Kalp yes it is in a way AI aligned but it is more on the general information about AI infrastructure. If you are more interested in AI infra and Nvidia certification tomorrow on a personal level I am running a 1hour session which talks about different certification paths in Nvidia. So I I'm running that tomorrow and ping me on LinkedIn. I can share you the link where to register so that you can know a little bit more on what are the different path and how Nvidia certification can be really useful and which one could align to you. So this is what we have for social media. Right. All right. Thank you. Uh moving forward and let me wait one more minute. I'm seeing how many of you can click on this links and then join. Please scan it. It will take just one minute and you will start following. I do not have Facebook account so far. So I have to create it first. Same for Instagram. that Instagram also. We may come on Twitter also but again depending on bandwidth and available volunteers. We have started with this. If it feels good we will expand to other methods of communication also. We want to keep communication running rather than a batch level. That's why we are coming on these social media platforms. All right. Good. Now Discord channel uh is there. Discord channel was our communication medium. we were running the batches and when we were having workshops. So we had lot of

mess in that because we have not created discord from that mindset initially. So we with the help of volunteer we are able to then go ahead and utilize some give me a minute. Let me I have a single slide here. Yep. So yeah uh I have shown something wrong. Yeah that is the talk about here. So, so we did a cleanup and what you should be seeing now like this. So, this will ensure that you get the required workshop for you. So, general certification best article boost suggestion. This will ensure that you are able to get the content you are looking for rather than skimming through multiple channels here. And when you post your questions into Discord, be a little mindful to post it into one channel. It will just attract multiple responses. If you are posting into multiple channel confuses us, confuses you too. So better to ask your question into one channel which aligns to what the question you are asking in. So this is the discord channel which we have. Now what else? We are also got a feedback that hey you should be recording some testimonial videos. We should be sharing we want to share that how Bessa helped us and that's where we have this testimonial video series and in that we would be recording short form videos. We'll be needing help from you all if you want to contribute and that would be published on our social channel like Tik Tok, YouTube, Instagram if you have. So that would be giving people about a scoop of what actually happens through Bessa what kind of transformation they have seen or what value they got because of this program. So we would need your help here. We will reach out to you so that we would be able to utilize it. Sunil I hear your question about social media. If you had Bessa WhatsApp channel, I agree. But there are a lot of operational overhead right now on the WhatsApp. It becomes very chatty. We know about it right even I am in a group of 10 15 people lot of good morning hello and how are you are too much there. So we will figure out a way WhatsApp is a really common method but we still haven't figured out how we should be bringing value. So we don't want to start something which we cannot maintain. So even after lot of deliberation we came up with let's start this because we want to give a continuity rather than starting and stopping something. But yeah, What WhatsApp is in our to-do list for the next iteration. We'll do that. Now, we have lot of awesome volunteer who have helped us in this whole method, whole series we have planned or whole thing we are doing it. So, if I talk about YouTube videos, so Rishi and the Banjan are helping us with these YouTube videos. So, they are taking care of creating thumbnail, putting the videos, doing AB testing, putting description associated with it. So, Rishi is a volunteer and Devanjan is also volunteer. Lewan happens to be working in AWS and similarly we are trying to pair two people one from external world one from internal so that we can have the most aligned team for working in a test into working with the audience we have here. So for testimonial far and pearl they are leading this initiative. Discord is taken care by James and Michael so they are taking care of it. Fundamentals release will be by Ronaldo and then just launch will be from Rajes. Social media is being maintained by Guri and Achel. Then Nirmal is running this cloud builder. And last addition we have here is a build your AI workflows is basically AI productivity tools that would be run by Sufian. So this is how we are scaling because obviously me Pera Prasad have limited hours. We have our day job, our family commitment, our personal commitment. So we do not have time to expand this much. If we are just only two, three people running it, it will never be expandable. But here with help of all you awesome volunteers we are able to expand these things. So kudos to every volunteer who is helping us in expanding Bessa and willingly sharing their knowledge and time with us. Thank you so much. Now we want to talk about the last piece of this session or that why we created selface right so let me talk about why we created self-pace and then I'll hand it over to Pa so she can show you a demo. So a lot of people joined us late. They were not aware about BESA program. Till they joined the already batches or weeks have been passed or they just recently filled up the form. So a lot of people wanted to see that hey I was not able to join because I was not aware how I can join again. So that is where we created selfie and then even people joined but had to skip some lessons because of some other commitment they had. Six week is not an easy over weekend with traveling and family and other things in happening. So that's why we have created self page do it on your own when you get time how much you time get time you finish it and then you complete it and then some people may have found it overwhelming too because there was so much information unpacked during those six weeks and that's why we wanted to keep it into a manner that everyone can consume it in the way they feel necessary I may not want to watch a 50-minute video I may want to watch 15 minute today and maybe rest tomorrow. So that's why we have this selfation which is going on. So will it be exactly same

as live session versus selfie? There would be some same things would be some difference. What would be the same? It would be the same track and content will be available to you. So what we have done, we have divided those long videos into tracks like there is a technical track, there is a behavioral track. So you can go ahead on that. You will still be able to claim your knowledge checks or knowledge check. You will be able to complete your knowledge checks like the quizzes we call them and that will be giving you uh access to completion certificate too. So you still have chance to complete all the six knowledge checks get six badges and if you complete six badges you would be able to get a completion certificate also because of that is going to remain same that's not changing. What is changing here is the hands-on workshop. So we do not have hands-on workshop anymore available for people who would be joining us now in the self-paced manner. Right? So we will still have videos that videos can be used to see how the lab was done and we will have links for the lab so that you can go ahead and do those labs in your own AWS account and we are augmenting it with the office hours like support channel. So in case you are stuck with something you can obviously ask in discord or if you want to be a little more vocal you can come and join our office hours and then ask questions there should not be a problem. So from the workshop perspective workshop is supposed to be completed by you in your own account into self-paced fashion whereas in live we had workshop given to you but that's the only difference but otherwise the learning stays the same. Discord channel is available videos are available walkthroughs are available for the lab that would help you to understand the whole structure and probably help you to solve the lab's problem also should not be a problem at all. Good. We have some suggested prerequisite if you are just starting up. So if you are beginner to AI and ML this is the previous serieses we have and then we are intermediate level you should be able to start on the mastering AWS geni and ML hands on series. These are playlist on YouTube. So from those playlist you should be able to pick up and then select what video you want to watch. So that is what the suggested prerequisite would look like. This is how the six badges would look like if you plan to claim them. there are found they are tied to those specific knowledge check. Video completion is not a criteria for claiming the badges. Badges can be claimed based on your answering of the quizzes or answering of the knowledge check. So if you pass knowledge checks, you can claim the badges and if you claim six badges, you would be able to claim your certificate also. Right now it is not automated but you will see a button which is says claim certificate and that would give you access to the claim certificate button. Right? So I'll stop here and I'll let Ferna walk you through the whole process of how you would be able to log in and what kind of things you would be able to do from it. So Pera if you want to share your screen and get started I can add you here are you there? I don't know I can't hear you. Okay. Yeah. I'm just figuring out to uh share my screen. Just give me a minute. — Take your time. When is the next war starting Amit? Uh we haven't finalized the date yet. We are still debating on the topic list we want to include. So that's where we would be still taking time maybe two three weeks we'll know about what the logistical details are and then we'll share it but we do not have right now the date or the topic looks for the next cohort over to you Pa if you can zoom in a little bit that would give me all the white space if it goes away that would look better. Yeah, I've just got multiple windows. So, — okay. Yeah. — All right. Should do you want me to zoom in more? — All right. — Okay. So, I'll just share the link or um Ashish, if you could share or let me see if I can share. I've got too many windows open. Yeah, this is the link for uh the self-paced one. We'll obviously we'll put that up even on our LinkedIn post. So that is going to directly take you to the self-paced uh basa program for Agentic AI on AWS. So if you've already registered last time when we were having the live sessions and uh we had onboarded you uh then you already have access to the program. This is mainly like Ashi said people who came to know about the program later and didn't get a chance to register through our forms and so they did not get onboarded to the live ones and that program by uh is over now because uh 30th April was

the last date. So this is now active and live. So the link that I shared with you will take you to this page. Okay. And once you come to this page uh you'll need to click on the join for free button. Now some of you may already be a user on the tech creator platform. Probably you have joined some other program on tech creator or maybe you did the uh migration and modernization course. That's possible. Uh or you might be a completely new user. So in case you are a completely new user uh because I don't really have a fresh um user to show you but I'll show you what you you're going to see. So if you're already logged into the platform uh then probably you will not see this. It will take you to your dashboard directly. Uh or you might come across this particular screen where it will ask you to sign up. Okay. Now you can sign up using your email address or you can use your Google account or your GitHub account. It's up to you. So you need to sign up and uh when you click on the sign up probably all these details will come. Okay. So, this is what's going to come up. And after you do that, the next screen that you're going to see is going to be this one. Let me just show that to you. Okay. So, after you've done that and you've uh signed up and signed in, you'll come back to the page. You'll probably see again the same join button, but click on it. It will take you to your dashboard. Okay. So this is what your dashboard is going to look like. So don't be surprised that even after you've signed up, if you continue seeing this, but uh you once you click on it, it will take you to your dashboard and this is what you're going to see. Okay, so Let me zoom in a little bit. Okay, so this is what you're going to see. You will have to complete your onboarding. So onboarding is mainly uh some information that we collect about you. It's not to be shared outside. It'll uh rest assured it's going to remain private with us. It's just for us to know a little bit about you better. So you cannot directly go into the learning modules unless you go to the onboarding. If you already have been uh a user on the tech creator platform or you have done the migration modernization cohort through this platform then you would have already onboarded right. So if you are already onboarded you will not have to fill in the onboarding uh form. This is only for new users. So this is what it will look like once you click on onboarding. You'll get a little form that comes up and there are a couple of questions. Now if you try to veer away from uh this form and if you directly try to go back to say dashboard or uh say you try to go to your programs and click here remember you will still have to go through the onboarding. Okay. So if for example if I click over here you'll see that you'll come to the modules but you will still have to go to the onboarding. So kindly go through the module then only you will get access to each of the videos and the associated quizzes and material. Okay. So you need to go through. So going back to the dashboard this is your main page. I'll take you through the questions. There'll be a couple of questions. Okay. Um please answer these. I'll just pick something. all right and then I'll submit it. Okay. Once you've submitted it then you can get access to the program. Okay. So I'll go to the program over here and now I can start learning. Okay. So over here as I've scrolled down you can see there are three uh tracks that we had in the last cohort of agentic AI on AWS. We had the technical, behavioral and the hands-on. Okay. Now uh remember that we do not have workshops in the self-paced one like we had in the live session. However, you get access to the videos. So there were de demo videos which were created uh which do a walkthrough of each workshop. So you can go and watch those. So for example, if I open this up, you can see uh not sure why this did not load up. I'll have a look at it, but it should bring up the video over here. Okay. Uh similarly for the others also, say you go to behavioral. Okay, something's playing up. Not sure why. Let me show it to you from another

account which I've also onboarded. Give me a minute. Okay. So, this is another account that I have where I've already onboarded. So, I'll probably uh show from here. Demos always go wrong. So, um yeah, this is another account. But, uh hopefully things are working here. Okay. So, I'll just take you. So, I've already onboarded here. Come to my dashboard. Okay. So, this is the technical track. So you should be able to see the video over here. The slides that we had gone through and shared they are available here. So you can go through them. Against each of the technical tracks there is a quiz. Okay. So if you look over here I have already taken the quiz. So it's taken but uh if I show you in the other account it's obviously not taken. Uh let me show to you in the other one. Go back here. Okay. So here you can start the quiz. Okay. You can retake it if you were not able to clear it in the first attempt. There are multiple attempts you can take. So it's not only one time. However, remember that you the questions are based on the video uh and the slides that we went through. So you need to watch the video and go through the slides then only take the quiz because obviously it'll increase your chances for passing it and the passing is uh 75 or 80% as far as I remember. Okay. So once you earn the uh badges it will show up here plus on your dashboard as well. So similarly we have this for all the others as well. Okay. So for every week you're going to be seeing this. So I showed you week one similar you'll see it for every week. Uh one thing I wanted to show you was let me see if I see the notes here. It's not showing the description. Let me take you here. Okay. So in the hands-on part like I told you do not have actual access to the workshops. However you can watch the walkthrough videos over here. Now uh just make a note the first workshop uh the workshop links are there in every description of each of the uh hands-on videos of the six weeks. However, the first workshop is under maintenance currently. It's getting upgraded. So don't be surprised if you go to this link and uh see that it's not coming up. So it will be up soon. Uh I'm not really sure in how many days or probably one two weeks more. Uh however, you can try looking for it after a week or two. Okay, this is only for the first workshop link. For all the others, again, the workshop links are here. You can go and look at the workshop and watch the video at the same time. Okay, so these are the step-by-step workshops. So, you can align yourself with what's happening in the video. You can go through it. Plus, you can try it in your own accounts. But please be mindful of cleaning up your accounts. Obviously, if you do it there, there is a cleanup that you need to do else you'll incur charges. So be very careful if you're planning to do it in your own accounts. Okay. So this is for the hands-on part and uh like I said there is the behavioral series also. So we had a behavioral track and each of the behavioral track videos are available over here as well. Okay. So just go through each one of them here. We do not have any quizzes for the behavioral. However, some of them have some material and information. So do go through the description. Uh Jeff has been very kind enough to share a lot of information with us. You'll see some of them in the description or if there are slides you'll be able to see them here. Okay. So not all of them have slides, some of them do have. All right. So uh finally after you've earned all your badges, let me take you to the dashboard. So in this particular account, I have uh gone and attempted all my quizzes. You'll be able to see all your badges over here. So there are six badges that you can earn. Okay, you can go and view them here and of course you can view them and share them. Okay, and you can sh you know it'll be really great if you can share them on LinkedIn. It will increase your visibility and credibility also of the knowledge and after you earn the six badges uh you can claim your certificate. Okay, so your certificate would look something like this. Okay. So, so these are the six badges that you can earn. But remember the uh the knowledge checks or the quizzes are based on the videos and the slides. Okay. So, uh try

to go through the videos and then answer them because they are linked to each other. And once you earn all six, there's going to be an option on your screen to claim the certificate. And this is what your certificate is going to look like. Now, this is where your username is going to be shown. So, proudly presented to. So make sure you have a proper username set in your profile. So you have your profile uh window over here, right? Okay. So uh you go to edit your profile and make sure you put in a proper name here because this is what's going to show up ultimately in your certificate. Okay. So yeah, that's about it from my side. Ashish uh if anybody has any questions did anybody have any questions — yeah put questions in the chat and we'll be happy to answer so if I summarize that you register into self-paced and then on the dashboard you would have access to all the three tracks you can go through them complete the videos based on that pass the knowledge checks and then you claim the certificate that is the flow right — correct yeah so I'm just walking you through one more time you'll come to the screen with the link that has been shared with you. Uh once you join it, joining implies either you sign in or you sign up. Okay. So this is your sign up screen. Okay. Once you sign in, you'll be redirected to your dashboard or you'll have to sign up. This is your sign up screen. This is what your onboarding will look like. You need to complete this in order to access the module. So please complete it. Okay? And this is what your dashboard will look like. You'll need to click on go to onboarding. Okay? And if you have not completed your onboarding and or stopped it midway and tried to access the modules, it will again ask this to you. So ensure that you complete it. Okay. And obviously against each of the modules of the technical track, there is a quiz. Okay. And this is a final certificate. Yeah, that's it from my — sense. That's good. So yeah, so that's all about it. It's not that complicated. If you run into issues try to figure out on your own or ask question into discord and we would be happy to answer as much as we can there. Lot of volunteers are there who would be helping you on that. So uh curious can I think question from Karthik is curious I believe certificate earned is also sharable if you think I miss to follow. Yes you can share it. So once there you get the certificate that we share button which you can also put on LinkedIn. And saying it again like claiming knowledge checks, knowledge badges is for your own satisfaction. I agree. But you are here for learning not just to collect some badges. Right? So focus on learning. Watch videos. Question should be coming in your mind that hey why this is done in that way? Can I do it differently? What are the other methods of doing those things? So focus on the learning not just doing a checkbox activity. That will never help you. Our intention is to give you knowledge to still give you the assertation of our certificate but our focus is on giving knowledge to you and that's why we created videos watch those videos and you will get good learning coming from them right I'll take one more question here Pa from Farukq do you have any end toend project lab which means enterprise environment these things are available into AWS workshop you can find AWS workshop and do it on your own account the demos we have shown or workshop we have completed before they are also similar like we build something from zero up to scratch depending on what we are trying to build but there are lot of AWS workshop which can go from zero and build the whole solution into obviously it would not be a enterprise solution which are like Facebook or Google you are deploying but it would give you the building block which you would need to scale those solutions so yes that would be there — yeah so you can look at those links that I told you so in the third track which is the hands-on track if you look at the description there you have the link to the workshop okay so those workshop uh links are like step-by-step walkthrough like Ashi said they may not be exactly replicating enterprise level but the purpose of the workshop is for you to build slowly step by step it's not like a full-blown thing but you will get to understand more so you can try that out in your account if that's what you intend to do but be mindful uh about the costs and cleaning up thereafter — good that's great so any more questions anyone could be random questions happy to answer as much as we know about should not be a problem and if you have any question put them here if you're live or if you're watching this video later uh check on the LinkedIn page sorry ask question into discord that should be question from je is how to validate or get review of the as solution we build based on our requirement this is something very personal thing we don't think we have option here for review but you could do your own review something through well architected framework work. So there is a well architected framework from AWS and you could use that to review your own application should not be a problem at

all. So that is completely possible. You should be able to have that review done by a well architected framework and there can be some third party tools also which can do review but if you're talking about a human review talking onetoone to you if you are a AWS customer probably you have your TAM or SAS working with you but if it is individual application probably you should figure out someone who is willing to help you out but we do not have that mechanism as of now to provide you those type of — so I think one idea would be Ashish if you want to uh there is a community so we have a LinkedIn group as well as a discord channel. So there are a lot of people who are from mid and senior level over there as well who are solution architects, cloud architects themselves. So you can share your architecture or your questions over there. So that's how you can also interact build with the community ask them questions. — Yeah, that will help. — Makes sense. Good. What else? Any other questions which we can answer for you? Uh question is there from the techb a question on alli farukq do have you end from project lab which means the enterprise environment making application yeah we already answered that and any tools suggestion possible to share the links I don't know what type of tool you're talking about Sanjit so if you can be a little bit more specific we could suggest something but — I think Ashish we have that upcoming productivity series are you talking about — yeah Okay. — So that is there. So yeah we we will talk about some tool which you can build into AWS productivity series which we are going to live like so going to put on YouTube but yeah it will take time. Other tool I'm not sure which specific tool you are talking about. Question from Satya is it possible to get some credit for NLM calls do it in our own account? No we do not have that mechanism. Satya sorry when we do workshop in the part of batch that time that cost is controlled by the workshop studio team. So there is a cost they beer it but we do not have any way of perform giving you credits on that. Sorry on that. Lot of these models have free tiers. So try to explore that free tier that should be good enough for most workloads but we do not have a specific credit to provide to you. All right good. So I think that is good enough time and we spent 45 minutes talking about what is coming up new and thanks everyone who showed up. uh just a last call to action type of stuff like start your self-est journey don't wait start small keep on moving forward should not be a problem that should be going on and then you should be able to follow Bessa on social media Facebook LinkedIn Instagram and discord that is where you should be using and then we are asking you to also subscribe on YouTube so all these new videos when they come up you should be able to get notification on that and there are huge new videos coming up we don't want to freak on repeating content. So that's why we are always coming up with new ideas and what is relevant to the day-to-day life of the people. So these videos can be really useful. Subscribe to YouTube channel. And the last thing be active in community discord. Don't make it like just a oneway communication like you just want to ask something. Yes, you can ask but if you have some answers for other question feel free to answer those questions also. You don't have to be accurate all the time. Sometime people fear that hey I am answering but I may not know everything. It's fine. We do not know all the things but at least give a genuine try. If you know answer for the question being asked in discord or other groups please respond to them so that others can also know about your expertise and you can start sharing your knowledge. So that's all we wanted to cover. Thank you so much everyone. Uh we should be again coming up next week with some more information. This was to get started this office hours but we have more ideas which we'll be sharing soon how we can help you in your learning journey. Thank you everyone. What are any last things you want to share? Uh — no, keep engaging. Uh we have a whole lot of things in store for you. So we'd love for you to let us know what you're finding useful and what you're liking it. So we are open to feedback and yeah follow all our channels. Thank you so much. — Yeah and thank you Vijendra. You've been answering question. Let me add you to screen if you are still there. — Yep. Yeah. Thank you for answering question Vijendra and yeah we will be meeting again next week. Take care. — Thank you all. — Bye-bye.