Book Image

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By : Adam Book
Book Image

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. If you wanted to bid on Amazon EC2 spare capacity, which of the following would allow you to do this?

    a. Reserved Instances

    b. Auto Scaling

    c. Spot Instances

    d. Savings plans

  2. The company you are working with wants to tighten up its network security. However, they don't currently want to have to declare egress for the return traffic. Which VPC construct can you use to help tune their security settings?

    a. Network Access Control Lists (NACLs)

    b. Network Address Translator (NAT)

    c. VPC endpoint

    d. Security groups

  3. True/False: Trusted Advisor can notify you of the service limits your account is about to reach.
  4. If your company was running a SQL Server instance in their current data center and wanted to migrate it to the AWS cloud, what options are available?

    a. Running the database on EC2

    b. Setting up Direct Connect so that cloud resources can connect to the SQL Server instance

    c. SQL Server on RDS

    d. SQL Server on Amazon Aurora

  5. Which of the following...