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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 has an application team whose application has two tiers—a web layer and a database layer. The application team needs a method to provision and deploy an environment to AWS quickly. Which of the following options would be the fastest and most ideal way to get this team set up?

    a. Use the Elastic Beanstalk service to provision an environment and then push the application to the environment.

    b. Create an OpsWorks stack with two layers, one for the application and another for the database. Deploy the application to the application layer.

    c. Use CloudFormation to create an S3 bucket, an RDS database, and an EC2 instance. Use user-data scripting to load the application from the S3 bucket and parameters for the RDS connection strings, username, and password.

    d. Create an RDS database and then use Lambda to deploy the application.

  2. You have been brought into a company that is trying to automate its move to the AWS cloud...