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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

By : Rajesh Daswani
3 (1)
Book Image

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

3 (1)
By: Rajesh Daswani

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud computing service provider in the world. Its foundational certification, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01), is the first step to fast-tracking your career in cloud computing. This certification will add value even to those in non-IT roles, including professionals from sales, legal, and finance who may be working with cloud computing or AWS projects. If you are a seasoned IT professional, this certification will make it easier for you to prepare for more technical certifications to progress up the AWS ladder and improve your career prospects. The book is divided into four parts. The first part focuses on the fundamentals of cloud computing and the AWS global infrastructure. The second part examines key AWS technology services, including compute, network, storage, and database services. The third part covers AWS security, the shared responsibility model, and several security tools. In the final part, you'll study the fundamentals of cloud economics and AWS pricing models and billing practices. Complete with exercises that highlight best practices for designing solutions, detailed use cases for each of the AWS services, quizzes, and two complete practice tests, this CLF-C01 exam study guide will help you gain the knowledge and hands-on experience necessary to ace the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Cloud Concepts
5
Section 2: AWS Technologies
16
Section 3: AWS Security
18
Section 4: Billing and Pricing
20
Chapter 16: Mock Tests

Decoupling your application architecture with Amazon SQS and Amazon MQ

Amazon SQS is another fully managed messaging integration solution that enables you to decouple your application components into distributed systems and facilitate the design and architecture of microservices. One of the primary advantages of using a queuing system such as Amazon SQS is the ability to move away from monolithic application designs. In a monolithic design, where all the components of your applications are dependent on each other and always need to be available to each other, you often suffer from frequent failures and outages. A queueing system such as Amazon SQS can help the different components of your application work independently and queues can hold messages in the form of requests/tasks until capacity becomes available. With asynchronous processing and the ability for different components to scale independently, you benefit from higher levels of availability, where each component can scale as...