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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide: CLF-C01 Exam

By : Ben Piper, David Clinton
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide: CLF-C01 Exam

By: Ben Piper, David Clinton

Overview of this book

AWS certifications validate the technical skills and knowledge required for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS cloud. The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification is for individuals who have the knowledge and skills necessary to demonstrate an understanding of the AWS Cloud, independent of specific technical roles addressed by other AWS certifications. An AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner is a recommended path to achieving specialty certification or an optional start toward Associate certification. This guide provides a solid introduction and the resources you need to prove your knowledge in the exam. It covers all topics, beginning with what the AWS cloud and its basic global infrastructure and architectural principles. Other chapters dive into the technical, exploring core characteristics of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud Platform, as well as basic security and compliance aspects and the shared security model. The text identifies sources of documentation or technical assistance, such as white papers or support tickets. The authors discuss the AWS Cloud value proposition and define billing, account management, and pricing models. This includes describing the key services AWS can provide and their common use cases such as compute, analytics, and so on. By the end of this book, you'll be thoroughly prepared for the foundational CLF-C01 exam.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Cover
2
Acknowledgments
3
About the Authors
4
Table of Exercises
5
Introduction
6
Assessment Test
7
Answers to Assessment Test
20
Index
21
Advert
22
End User License Agreement

Documentation and Online Help

Even if you decide not to sign up for a paid support plan, there are still many places to look for help—it’s just that, for the most part, it’ll be self-help. In this section, we’ll introduce you to some rich collections of written content that are spread across multiple websites and presented in multiple formats. If you’re sufficiently determined and motivated, there’s little you won’t be able learn from those sources.

Documentation

AWS provides a lot of documentation resources. By “a lot” we mean there’s so much of it that you’ll probably never have enough time to read through the whole thing. Instead, you’ll be better off learning how to navigate to the page containing the information you’re really after and then to the section within that page that answers your specific question.

While the precise layout and organization will change over time, as of this writing...