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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

By : Rajesh Daswani
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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

Learning about change management with AWS Config

AWS Config is a service that allows you to gain visibility into how your AWS resources are configured and deployed in your AWS account. With AWS Config, you can see how resources are related to each other, how they were configured in the past, and historical changes to those resources over time.

This can be particularly useful when you start running multiple environments, such as development and production, where within those environments are hosted countless resources across the vast array of services on AWS. For example, you would want to be aware of how your VPCs have been configured, what subnets and security groups are attached to them, what routes have been added to your route tables, and so on. AWS Config can help you maintain an accurate database of all this information as well as track changes as they occur in your AWS accounts.

You can use AWS Config to ensure that your resources have been configured in accordance with...