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The Self-Taught Cloud Computing Engineer

By : Dr. Logan Song
Book Image

The Self-Taught Cloud Computing Engineer

By: Dr. Logan Song

Overview of this book

The Self-Taught Cloud Computing Engineer is a comprehensive guide to mastering cloud computing concepts by building a broad and deep cloud knowledge base, developing hands-on cloud skills, and achieving professional cloud certifications. Even if you’re a beginner with a basic understanding of computer hardware and software, this book serves as the means to transition into a cloud computing career. Starting with the Amazon cloud, you’ll explore the fundamental AWS cloud services, then progress to advanced AWS cloud services in the domains of data, machine learning, and security. Next, you’ll build proficiency in Microsoft Azure Cloud and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by examining the common attributes of the three clouds while distinguishing their unique features. You’ll further enhance your skills through practical experience on these platforms with real-life cloud project implementations. Finally, you’ll find expert guidance on cloud certifications and career development. By the end of this cloud computing book, you’ll have become a cloud-savvy professional well-versed in AWS, Azure, and GCP, ready to pursue cloud certifications to validate your skills.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Learning about the Amazon Cloud
9
Part 2:Comprehending GCP Cloud Services
14
Part 3:Mastering Azure Cloud Services
19
Part 4:Developing a Successful Cloud Career

Practice questions

Questions 1-10 are based on the AWS architecture shown in Figure 7.15. There is a cloud admin in company ABC, which has 10,000 EC2 instances in its AWS cloud. The diagram shows the three VPCs in the cloud admin account. All networks are configured correctly. The cloud admin created an EC2 role, R3, that can access the S3 bucket named B3 in us-east-1. EC2-1 has a security group named sg. Subnet1 has a network access control list named nacl:

Figure 7.15 – AWS Networking Architecture

1. They are looking for a place to securely store a connection string to RDS1. What do you suggest?

A. EBS

B. Parameter store

C. DynamoDB

D. RDS

2. They couldn’t ping EC2-1 from their home laptop, and he found the following in the AWS VPC flow log:

2 123456789010 eni-1235b8ca123456789 204.0.113.12 173.31.16.139 0 0 1 4 336 1432917027 1432917142 ACCEPT OK

2 123456789010 eni-1235b8ca123456789 173.31.16.139 204.0.113.12 0 0 1...