$\color{magenta}{\textsf{Introduction}}$

This repository is intended to be your elastic certification buddy that will help you devise a plan and prepare for your elastic engineer exam. It is meant to be a one-stop solution to all your needs. It includes a

• condensation of advise from 6 elastic engineer certified professionals 1,2,3,4,5,6
• Study plan
• Questions
• Practice exams
• Resources (docker environments + courses)

$\color{magenta}{\textsf{Preparation duration}}$

Note

Allocate 3 dedicated weeks if you are a beginner with limited elasticsearch experience and 2 weeks or less if you are daily user and experienced with elasticsearch REST APIs.

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The first question you may be asking is how long will I need to be ready to pass the exam. I had this very same question when I decided to take this path. The amount of time needed is dependent on two things - your initial knowledge and practical experience with elasticsearch API - the time you can dedicate in day to practice

You may need as little as 2 weeks such as [Surbhi Mahajan, 2020](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/elastic-certified-engineer-exam-my-experience-how-i-surbhi-mahajan/) or 1.5 month as [Deepak Dubey, 2020](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-did-i-pass-elastic-certified-engineer-exam-tips/ ). Personally, I spent 2 condensed dedicated weeks where my full focus was on elasticsearch.

Keep in mind that my initial knowledge was limited to theoretical knowledge without practical experience. I knew the basics of elasticsearch and had very limited experience with the REST APIs. I was certainly not a daily user.

While I spent 2 weeks and passed the exam from the first attempt I would have preferred to have had another week to test myself and revise material without the rush. Therefore, if you fall into the same category as me, I would suggest that you dedicated 3 weeks.

$\color{magenta}{\textsf{Study plan}}$

Note

Suggested plan: tackle one theme at a time. for each subject in a theme do the following:

• Identifying the relevant documentation links
• Read through documentation
• do respective exercises (below)
• grade yourself

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Now that you have identified the elasticsearch version and the exam themes you can cretae a study plan. Initially I had no clue from where to start and how to devise a preparation plan for the certification. If you are in the same situation I would suggest you the following plan. Use the excel sheet template provided in the repo. The excel sheet contains the 5 main (current) themes and their composing subjects.

The idea would be to start familiarising yourself with the subject by reading through the docs.

$\color{magenta}{\textsf{Practice questions}}$

$\color{teal}{\textsf{Data management}}$

Useful documentation links

$\color{teal}{\textsf{Searching data}}$

$\color{teal}{\textsf{Developing search applications}}$

$\color{teal}{\textsf{Data processing}}$

$\color{teal}{\textsf{Cluster management}}$