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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.

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Ben Piper | David Clinton
Jul, 2019 | 304 pages
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Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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1
Cover
Cover
2
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
3
About the Authors
About the Authors
4
Table of Exercises
Table of Exercises
5
Introduction
Introduction
6
Assessment Test
Assessment Test
7
Answers to Assessment Test
Answers to Assessment Test
8
Chapter 1 The Cloud
Chapter 1 The Cloud
Introduction
What Is Cloud Computing?
Server Virtualization: The Basics
Cloud Platform Models
Scalability and Elasticity
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
9
Chapter 2 Understanding Your AWS Account
Chapter 2 Understanding Your AWS Account
Introduction
The Free Tier
Product Pricing
Service Limits
Billing and Cost Management
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
10
Chapter 3 Getting Support on AWS
Chapter 3 Getting Support on AWS
Introduction
Support Plans
Documentation and Online Help
Trusted Advisor
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
11
Chapter 4 Understanding the AWS Environment
Chapter 4 Understanding the AWS Environment
Introduction
AWS Global Infrastructure: AWS Regions
AWS Global Infrastructure: Availability Zones
AWS Global Infrastructure: Edge Locations
The AWS Shared Responsibility Model
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
12
Chapter 5 Securing Your AWS Resources
Chapter 5 Securing Your AWS Resources
Introduction
AWS Identity and Access Management
Encryption
Regulatory Compliance (AWS Artifact)
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
13
Chapter 6 Working with Your AWS Resources
Chapter 6 Working with Your AWS Resources
Introduction
The AWS Management Console
The AWS Command Line Interface
Software Development Kits
CloudWatch
CloudTrail
Cost Explorer
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
14
Chapter 7 The Core Compute Services
Chapter 7 The Core Compute Services
Introduction
Deploying Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Servers
Simplified Deployments Through Managed Services
Deploying Container and Serverless Workloads
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
15
Chapter 8 The Core Storage Services
Chapter 8 The Core Storage Services
Introduction
Simple Storage Service
S3 Glacier
AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Snowball
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
16
Chapter 9 The Core Database Services
Chapter 9 The Core Database Services
Introduction
Database Models
Amazon Relational Database Service
DynamoDB
Amazon Redshift
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
17
Chapter 10 The Core Networking Services
Chapter 10 The Core Networking Services
Introduction
Virtual Private Cloud
Route 53
CloudFront
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
18
Chapter 11 Automating Your AWS Workloads
Chapter 11 Automating Your AWS Workloads
Introduction
CloudFormation
AWS Developer Tools
EC2 Auto Scaling
Configuration Management
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
19
Chapter 12 Common Use-Case Scenarios
Chapter 12 Common Use-Case Scenarios
Introduction
The Well-Architected Framework
A Highly Available Web Application Using Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing
Static Website Hosting Using S3
Summary
Exam Essentials
Review Questions
20
Index
Index
21
Advert
Advert
22
End User License Agreement
End User License Agreement
Appendix A Answers to Review Questions
Appendix A Answers to Review Questions
Chapter 1: The Cloud
Chapter 2: Understanding Your AWS Account
Chapter 3: Getting Support on AWS
Chapter 4: Understanding the AWS Environment
Chapter 5: Securing Your AWS Resources
Chapter 6: Working with Your AWS Resources
Chapter 7: The Core Compute Services
Chapter 8: The Core Storage Services
Chapter 9: The Core Database Services
Chapter 10: The Core Networking Services
Chapter 11: Automating Your AWS Workloads
Chapter 12: Common Use-Case Scenarios
Appendix B Additional Services
Appendix B Additional Services
Athena
AWS Backup
AWS Glue
Batch
Cognito
Database Migration Service
Elastic File System
Elastic MapReduce
Inspector
Kinesis
Macie
Neptune
Simple Queue Service
WorkDocs
WorkSpaces

Cloud Platform Models

Cloud services come in more than one flavor. Choosing the one that’s right for your project will depend on your specific needs and how much fine control you’ll need over the underlying gears and levers.

Infrastructure as a Service

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) products generally simulate the look and feel you’d get from managing physical resources. IaaS products give you direct access to a provider’s compute, storage, and networking assets. Because it’s you that’s in there playing around at the hardware level, you—rather than the IaaS provider—are responsible for the consequences of any bad configurations. The trade-off is that you get to closely configure every layer of your operating stack.

You’ll learn much more about these examples later in the book, but AWS IaaS products include Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) for virtual machine instances, Elastic Block Store (EBS) for storage volumes, and Elastic...

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