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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

By : Rajesh Daswani
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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

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed several services from AWS that fall within the analytics category. Businesses today possess a vast array of data and being able to analyze and make sense of that data is extremely important. Information that's obtained from this data can help businesses respond to their customers' needs and demands, address potential issues, and even predict future growth. Ultimately, businesses can gain an advantage over competitors.

In this chapter, you learned about services such as Amazon Kinesis, which allows customers to stream and respond in real time and near real time to data. You also learned about services that can be used to quickly query your data, such as Amazon Athena, as well as services to help you present that data using BI tools. Most of these analytical services are also offered as fully managed services on a pay-as-you-consume pricing model, making them very affordable for almost any business.

In the next chapter, you will...