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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: OpsWorks is a configuration management tool that supports Chef Automate and Puppet Enterprise and allows us to control our instances running in AWS.
  2. True or false: OpsWorks supports both OpsWorks and Service layers to provide the capability to use both EC2 instances and other AWS services from the same stack.
  3. When running OpsWorks, which component can we use to install applications to instances within a stack?
  4. You have a multi-tier application. How would you separate the functional aspects of this application within OpsWorks?
  1. Your development environment is deemed a success and you wish to create four similar environments (test, QA, staging, and production) based on the settings and characteristics of the development stack. What is the easiest way to do that in OpsWorks?
  2. You have a requirement to maintain a configuration across time on a certain set...