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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By : Adam Book
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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By: Adam Book

Overview of this book

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification is one of the highest AWS credentials, vastly recognized in cloud computing or software development industries. This book is an extensive guide to helping you strengthen your DevOps skills as you work with your AWS workloads on a day-to-day basis. You'll begin by learning how to create and deploy a workload using the AWS code suite of tools, and then move on to adding monitoring and fault tolerance to your workload. You'll explore enterprise scenarios that'll help you to understand various AWS tools and services. This book is packed with detailed explanations of essential concepts to help you get to grips with the domains needed to pass the DevOps professional exam. As you advance, you'll delve into AWS with the help of hands-on examples and practice questions to gain a holistic understanding of the services covered in the AWS DevOps professional exam. Throughout the book, you'll find real-world scenarios that you can easily incorporate in your daily activities when working with AWS, making you a valuable asset for any organization. By the end of this AWS certification book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to pass the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer exam, and be able to implement different techniques for delivering each service in real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Section 1: Establishing the Fundamentals
7
Section 2: Developing, Deploying, and Using Infrastructure as Code
16
Section 3: Monitoring and Logging Your Environment and Workloads
21
Section 4: Enabling Highly Available Workloads, Fault Tolerance, and Implementing Standards and Policies
27
Section 5: Exam Tips and Tricks

Chapter 24: Practice Exam 1

This section will have sample questions that are similar to the test so that you can become familiar with how to read and answer questions in the allotted time.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:  

  • SDLC automation
  • Configuration management and infrastructure as code
  • Monitoring and logging
  • Policies and standards automation
  • Incident and event response
  • High availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery

Before you start to answer the following questions, it is suggested that you use a timer of some kind to keep track of how long it is taking you to answer each question. None of the questions are actual AWS test questions. They are, however, made to be in the format that the test appears in. This includes long scenario-type questions along with multiple-choice answers that are very similar. Small details can mean the difference between the correct answer and one of the...