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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By : Marko Sluga
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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By: Marko Sluga

Overview of this book

AWS certifications are becoming one of the must have certifications for any IT professional working on an AWS Cloud platform. This book will act as your one stop preparation guide to validate your technical expertise in deployment, management, and operations on the AWS platform. Along with exam specific content this book will also deep dive into real world scenarios and hands-on instructions. This book will revolve around concepts like teaching you to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS. You will also learn to migrate an existing on-premises application to AWS. You get hands-on experience in selecting the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements. This book will also get you well versed with estimating AWS usage costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms. By the end of this book, you will be all prepared to implement and manage resources efficiently on the AWS cloud along with confidently passing the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Questions

  1. In what case would it be normal practice to keep using the root account for administrative tasks?
  2. What is multi-factor authentication?
  3. What kinds of features does the AWS IAM password policy provide?
  4. What are the three main identity objects within IAM?
  5. Can a user have more than one active access key assigned to their account?
  6. A user has lost their secret access key and is asking the administrator to retrieve the existing secret access key for them. How can this be done?
  7. You are looking to give an application running on EC2 access to S3. What is the best practice way to achieve that?
  8. You are in charge of directory services in your enterprise and you have been given the task of granting everyone in your organization access to AWS. There are approximately 15000 users in your directory. What is the best way to approach authentication in AWS?
  9. State true or false: Yesterday...