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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

Test answers

  1. c

    Since the bucket had versioning turned on, removing the delete marker restores the object, and any current or future deployments using that script will be able to find it.

  2. b

    You can use the AWS CLI and the autoscaling set-instance-health command along with the --health-status Unhealthy flag to have the instance be out of service.

    More information can be found on the documentation page for the AWS CLI at the following link: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/autoscaling/set-instance-health.html.

  3. c

    With the configuration recorder, AWS Config can evaluate new resources being created in an account. Items are recorded as JSON snapshots to an S3 bucket declared in the setup.

  4. a

    RDS uses DNS to switch over to the standby replica for a seamless transition in a Multi-AZ implementation.

  5. d

    Although the AWSCodePipeline_FullAccess policy would give approval access, it doesn't follow the AWS principle of least privilege. This policy would...