AWS SysOps Associate vs Others

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In order to pass my next college course, I need to pass the AWS SysOps Associate exam. I have minimal exposure to AWS and was wondering if I should spend time going through the material for the Cloud Practitioner or one of the other Associate certs first.

I already have my CompTIA A+, Net+, Security+, Cloud Essentials, Cloud+, and Linux Essentials. My certs are all very vendor-neutral, and I want to make sure that I have enough foundational AWS knowledge going into the SysOps Associate study path.

@Jared-Stokes-0
You very well may have the general knowledge necessary to pass the SysOps Associate exam except for one key point, "Cloud the AWS way". What I mean by that is AWS has some interesting philosophies on naming services that can be a little difficult to parse as well as has some recommended ways to create a cloud solution.

Something that helped me, though it does cost a little more money, was taking the Cloud Practitioner exam. By taking that exam, I was able to validate my basic understanding of the core services in AWS. I really got a confidence boost by taking (and doing well on) this exam. Afterward, I would spend some time reading through the Well Architected Framework as well as creating some basic solutions in AWS based on that document. (Such as creating a static website using S3 and Cloudfront).

Hope that helps.