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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. What are the two major components of CloudFormation?
  2. You have been contracted by a company to help review and optimize their CI/CD processes, especially in the area of IaC. The company currently has a single CloudFormation template, which they have developed over time, that is used to create the IAM account roles, VPCs, subnets, Lambda functions, CloudWatch alarms, along with SNS topics and other resources, including databases and EKS EC2 instances and their corresponding AutoScaling groups. How would you go about creating a recommendation for optimizing their process?

    a. Check the current template to make sure that it has the correct DependsOn and WaitCondition embedded so that all resources come up without conflicts.

    b. Create a plan on how to break up their large template.

    c. Use the CloudFormation package command to package all of the templates together.

    d. Take the smaller templates and launch with a single deploy command.

  3. After assessing a client&apos...