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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)

Chapter 2 – The Fundamentals of Amazon Web Services

  1. IaaS provides VM instances, disk, and networks, while PaaS provides services such as databases and queues.
  2. The physical security, securing access to the hypervisor, securing and patching the operating system, securing, configuring and patching the platform.
  3. Trade cap-ex for op-ex, use inexpensive compute units on demand, increase the speed of application delivery and agility, matching capacity to demand, ability to go global in minutes.
  4. Network, compute, storage, security and identity services, and end user applications.
  5. The AWS Management Console, the CLI, and the SDK.
  6. An application that's built to run on the cloud (usually on platform and serverless environments).
  7. Regions are composed of multiple availability zones, AZs are composed of multiple data centers.
  8. No, because a single-availability zone should be considered...