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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

By : Rajesh Daswani
3 (1)
Book Image

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

3 (1)
By: Rajesh Daswani

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud computing service provider in the world. Its foundational certification, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01), is the first step to fast-tracking your career in cloud computing. This certification will add value even to those in non-IT roles, including professionals from sales, legal, and finance who may be working with cloud computing or AWS projects. If you are a seasoned IT professional, this certification will make it easier for you to prepare for more technical certifications to progress up the AWS ladder and improve your career prospects. The book is divided into four parts. The first part focuses on the fundamentals of cloud computing and the AWS global infrastructure. The second part examines key AWS technology services, including compute, network, storage, and database services. The third part covers AWS security, the shared responsibility model, and several security tools. In the final part, you'll study the fundamentals of cloud economics and AWS pricing models and billing practices. Complete with exercises that highlight best practices for designing solutions, detailed use cases for each of the AWS services, quizzes, and two complete practice tests, this CLF-C01 exam study guide will help you gain the knowledge and hands-on experience necessary to ace the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Cloud Concepts
5
Section 2: AWS Technologies
16
Section 3: AWS Security
18
Section 4: Billing and Pricing
20
Chapter 16: Mock Tests

Introduction to the orchestration of Chef and Puppet solutions using AWS OpsWorks

In this section, we will provide a quick introduction to another configuration management and orchestration service known as AWS OpsWorks. AWS offers three different services that fall under the AWS OpsWorks offering. There are AWS OpsWorks stacks and AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate, which let you use Chef cookbooks for configuration management. The third service is OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise, which lets you configure a Puppet Enterprise master server in AWS.

OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise provides a fully managed Puppet master server that is used to communicate with, configure, deploy, and manage your nodes – which could be EC2 instances or even on-premises servers. The service also takes care of handling tasks such as software and operating system configurations, package installations, database setups, and more.

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate lets you create AWS-managed Chef servers...