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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 brought into a company that is starting its move to the AWS cloud. They have a sizable library of Chef recipes that they currently use to manage their on-premises systems. The recipes have already been moved to a private GitHub repository. The individual who managed and administrated the Chef servers left around one month ago. The company is not prepared to re-write all of the recipes to another means in the current fiscal year with their current available resources. What AWS service or services would be best for their migration?

    a) Use AWS Server Migration Service to move the current Chef server to the AWS cloud.

    b) Stand up the latest version of Chef on EC2 with autoscaling for redundancy. Add a Route 53 record in a locally hosted zone for the Chef server. Create a base AMI that already has the Chef agent pre-installed and connects to the DNS entry configured in Route 53.

    c) Set up the applications as stacks in OpsWorks. Create all the different...