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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

Businesses across the globe of all sizes can benefit from moving their applications and workloads to the cloud and gain a competitive advantage from the vast array of services on offer by AWS. AWS enables customers to build highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions. AWS offers some of the latest and greatest cutting-edge technologies to help you design and build robust application solutions. Without AWS, the cost of provisioning the vast pool of services and resources alone would make it impossible for many companies, including start-ups, to innovate.

One of the prime drivers of cloud adoption is the fact that companies can save on capital expenses and opt for a variable expense model for all their IT investments. This allows businesses to channel more of the previous capital into improving their products and services. However, careful planning and monitoring are required. It is all too easy to spin the instances and other resources and incur...