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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 a department in your company that needs an S3 bucket configured where the objects are accessed on a weekly basis and need to be both durable and reliable. Which S3 storage class should you use to configure the bucket?
  2. You have five departments in your organization. Three of the departments are product teams, one is the accounting department, and one is the HR department. The accounting department has decided to migrate their files to S3 from the data center in order to save costs. How can you be sure that only members of the accounting department have access to the accounting files and no one else?
  3. A healthcare company is preparing for an internal audit. They need to make sure that all of their files stored in S3 have been encrypted and that the keys are rotated no less than once per year. The company has been in business for over 15 years and has recently (in the last 5 years) made a digital push to move the majority of its files onto the cloud...