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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

AWS Control Tower

Customers who are now looking to set up a landing zone in accordance with the updated architectural best practices should use the new AWS Control Tower. This service automates the setup of a new landing zone using the latest blueprints. Some AWS accounts created as part of this landing zone include the following:

  • Creation of an AWS Organizations and multi-account setup
  • Identity and access management with AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) default directory services
  • Account federation using SSO
  • Centralized logging using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config

The landing zone deployed by AWS Control Tower comes configured with recommended security policies called guardrails and customers can choose how their accounts are configured to comply with their overall organizational policies.

In this section, we looked at two services that can be used easily to architect your multi-account architecture. If this was to be carried out manually, it would be time-consuming...