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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

Exercise 12.2 – cleaning up

In this exercise, you will terminate your EC2 instance and delete your Lambda functions to avoid any unnecessary charges to your AWS account:

  1. Navigate to the EC2 dashboard and ensure that you are in the us-east-1 (North Virginia) Region.
  2. Click on Instances from the left-hand menu.
  3. In the right-hand pane, under Instances, select the EC2 instance you launched earlier. Then, from the Instance state drop-down menu, click Terminate instance. Confirm that you wish to terminate the instance; AWS will terminate it.
  4. Next, navigate to the Lambda dashboard.
  5. Click on Functions from the left-hand menu. In the right-hand pane, for each function, select the function. Then, from the Actions drop-down list, click Delete. Click the Delete button in the pop-up dialog box to delete the function.
  6. Next, navigate to the CloudWatch management console.
  7. From the left-hand menu, click on Rules, under Events.
  8. For each rule, select the rule...