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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

Setting up and accessing your AWS account

At this point, you most likely have an AWS account to work with; nevertheless, you may only have access through your workplace, where some of the permissions are restricted, so you would not be able to practice all of the skills that you need to feel confident in passing the DevOps professional exam.

If you don't already have a personal account for testing things, then this would be the perfect time to set one up. Even if you do have an account, you may want to take the time to set up a new account just for the exam to ensure that you are allowed to take advantage of the free tier (allocated for your first year in AWS) on a number of the provided services.

If you do already have an account, making the switch to AWS Organizations, especially using Control Tower, is an excellent exercise if you wish to create service control policies, organizational units, Single Sign-On (SSO), and cross-account roles.

Important Note

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