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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By : Marko Sluga
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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By: Marko Sluga

Overview of this book

AWS certifications are becoming one of the must have certifications for any IT professional working on an AWS Cloud platform. This book will act as your one stop preparation guide to validate your technical expertise in deployment, management, and operations on the AWS platform. Along with exam specific content this book will also deep dive into real world scenarios and hands-on instructions. This book will revolve around concepts like teaching you to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS. You will also learn to migrate an existing on-premises application to AWS. You get hands-on experience in selecting the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements. This book will also get you well versed with estimating AWS usage costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms. By the end of this book, you will be all prepared to implement and manage resources efficiently on the AWS cloud along with confidently passing the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Questions

  1. Name the engines supported by RDS.
  2. How do read replicas differ from Multi-AZ deployments with the MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL engines?
  3. What are the two instance types in Amazon Aurora?
  4. How long will an Amazon Aurora cluster be unavailable during snapshots?
  5. What are the steps to restore a DB snapshot to an existing Aurora cluster?
  6. You are implementing a BI system that will issue end of day reports. You currently run a Multi-AZ cluster. What is the easiest way to support your BI requirements?
  7. You are developing an application with a MariaDB backend. The architecture defines two public subnets, one for the EC2 instances and one for the RDS instances. The RDS security group allows traffic from the EC2 instance subnet to the RDS subnet. How can you increase the security of your RDS cluster?