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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 3 – Managing AWS Security with Identity and Access Management

  1. None. It isn't recommended to keep using the root account for any other case than emergency access to the account.
  2. MFA is the procedure of entering multiple authentication factors when logging in for example, a username will require the user's password and a Time-based One-time Password (TOTP) or certificate to authenticate.
  1. Set the minimum password length; require at least one uppercase or lowercase character; number or special character; allow users to change their own passwords; enable password expiration after a number of days; prevent the reuse of passwords, enable administrative reset on expired passwords.
  2. Users, Groups, Roles, and Policies.
  3. Yes.
  4. You can't retrieve an existing secret access key. A new key needs to be created.
  5. Create a role with the appropriate S3 access...