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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By : Adam Book
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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By: Adam Book

Overview of this book

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification is one of the highest AWS credentials, vastly recognized in cloud computing or software development industries. This book is an extensive guide to helping you strengthen your DevOps skills as you work with your AWS workloads on a day-to-day basis. You'll begin by learning how to create and deploy a workload using the AWS code suite of tools, and then move on to adding monitoring and fault tolerance to your workload. You'll explore enterprise scenarios that'll help you to understand various AWS tools and services. This book is packed with detailed explanations of essential concepts to help you get to grips with the domains needed to pass the DevOps professional exam. As you advance, you'll delve into AWS with the help of hands-on examples and practice questions to gain a holistic understanding of the services covered in the AWS DevOps professional exam. Throughout the book, you'll find real-world scenarios that you can easily incorporate in your daily activities when working with AWS, making you a valuable asset for any organization. By the end of this AWS certification book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to pass the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer exam, and be able to implement different techniques for delivering each service in real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Section 1: Establishing the Fundamentals
7
Section 2: Developing, Deploying, and Using Infrastructure as Code
16
Section 3: Monitoring and Logging Your Environment and Workloads
21
Section 4: Enabling Highly Available Workloads, Fault Tolerance, and Implementing Standards and Policies
27
Section 5: Exam Tips and Tricks

Review questions

  1. You have been asked to set up a CodeCommit repository for your organization for the development team. The developers need the ability to push commits to their branches but not merge commits to the main branch, nor push commits to the main branch. The project manager also needs to be notified whenever a merge or a commit to the main branch occurs. Which combination of steps will safeguard the master branch and send the notification in the shortest time possible?

    a. Attach a resource policy to the CodeCommit repository that denies members of the IAM developer group actions of pushing commits, merging requests, and adding files to the main branch.

    b. Affix an IAM policy to the developer IAM developer group that denies the actions of pushing commits, merging requests, and adding files to the main branch.

    c. Configure AWS CloudTrail to send log events to send logs events to Amazon CloudWatch logs. Create a CloudWatch alarm based on a defined metric filter to identify...