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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. True or false: A CloudWatch namespace must be preceded with AWS.
  2. True or false: Metrics come in two types: Normal and Detailed.
  3. True or false: Metrics are aggregated to the next tier after their retention period expires.
  4. A new compliance requirement has been introduced in your company that dictates that all EC2 system slogs need to be redirected to a central data store where they can be accessed and then stored durably in an archive. How could you achieve this?
  5. Your application is divided into three functional environments: Test, Staging, and Production, each composed of EC2 autoscaling clusters, RDS databases, and ElastiCache cluster. A requirement to maintain alerts of CPU usage on all instances only on the Production environment is set out by a governance policy. How can you implement your CloudWatch Alarms to achieve this in the most efficient manner?
  6. What would...