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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 running a business-critical workload using ELB and Auto Scaling. This workload is a two-tier application that consists of an application tier and a database tier. Both tiers are currently deployed across two AZs in the us-east-1 region. The database needs to be replicated in a synchronous fashion from the application. The chief technical officer (CTO) has told you that the application must stay fully available even if a single AZ becomes unavailable and Auto Scaling cannot launch new instances in the remaining AZ. How can you establish this through AWS-specific services and architecture?
    1. Set the configuration in ELB to deploy in three AZs with Auto Scaling set to deploy to handle 33 percent of the load per zone at peak.
    2. Set the configuration in ELB to deploy in three AZs with Auto Scaling set to deploy to handle 50 percent of the load per zone at peak.
    3. Set the configuration in ELB to deploy in two regions using the...