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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

Learning how to use AWS Trusted Advisor

The AWS Trusted Advisor service analyzes your resources and how they have been configured. The service helps to measure the configuration of your resources against best practices and identify opportunities to save money, improve system availability and performance, or address security concerns.

Specifically, the Trusted Advisor service will report on its analysis against the following core categories:

  • Cost optimization: Performs checks on your resources to identify which ones are underutilized. AWS Trusted Advisor will then offer recommendations on where you could reduce your costs. For example, Elastic IP addresses are only free if they are attached to a running EC2 instance. AWS charges you an hourly fee for provisioning Elastic IP addresses if they are not being consumed, that is, not attached to any instance, or attached to an instance that is in a stopped state.
  • Performance: Offers recommendations on where you can improve...