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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

Chapter 11: Automating Your AWS Workloads

  1. C. CloudFormation can create AWS resources and manages them collectively in a stack. Templates are written in the CloudFormation language, not Python. CloudFormation can’t create resources outside of AWS. It also doesn’t prevent manual changes to resources in a stack.

  2. B, D. CloudFormation templates are written in the YAML or JSON format.

  3. A. Parameters let you input customizations when creating a CloudFormation stack without having to modify the underlying template. Parameters don’t prevent stack updates or unauthorized changes. A template can be used to create multiple stacks, regardless of whether it uses parameters.

  4. A, B. Resources CloudFormation creates are organized into stacks. When you update a stack, CloudFormation analyzes the relationships among resources in the stack and updates dependent resources as necessary. This does not, however, mean that any resource you create using CloudFormation will...