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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

Introduction to Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 is one of AWS's flagship offerings and allows you to launch and set up virtual servers in the cloud. These are very similar to setting up and configuring VMs in your on-premises environment, which you would configure on a hypervisor such as VMware or Hyper-V.

A hypervisor, as discussed in Chapter 1, What Is Cloud Computing?, is a piece of software that allows you to create virtual resources such as virtual servers. Depending on the capacity of the underlying hardware, you can then host multiple virtual servers on the same physical hardware. These virtual servers are granted access to actual physical hardware via the hypervisor, which carves out virtualized representations of the physical hardware components (CPU, memory, storage, and so on) into smaller virtual components, that are then presented to your virtual servers. You can access hypervisor software such as VMware and Hyper-V to create your virtual servers, selecting the virtual...