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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

Accessing the AWS platform using the CLI

As previously discussed, you can access the vast array of AWS services using the web-based management console or the CLI. The AWS CLI is a unified tool to manage your AWS services programmatically. The AWS CLI gives you access to the application programming interface (API) of each AWS service. This enables you to remotely access your AWS account and run commands from your Terminal application on Linux and Mac computers or use Command Prompt on Windows computers.

The AWS CLI is therefore ideal for running simple commands to complete repetitive tasks and because a single command string can contain necessary attributes of your request, you will find it a lot faster than using mouse clicks within the web console. The CLI is something you will need to get accustomed to—for one, you will need to know how to construct commands, but AWS offers complete reference documentation for this.

You can run your CLI commands line by line individually...