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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

Understanding the AWS Well-Architected Framework

The AWS Well-Architected Framework consists of a set of design principles and architectural best practices that you can follow when building solutions for the cloud. AWS offers the Well-Architected Tool, which can be used to review the state of your applications and resources, and compares them to the latest AWS architectural best practices.

The Well-Architected Framework comprises the following five pillars.

Reliability

Applications deployed in the cloud must be resilient to failures. The resources that your applications depend on (compute, storage, networks, and databases) must be available and reliable. Any technical issues on any of these resources will cause your application to become unreliable and potentially fail.

The reliability pillar also focuses on how quickly you can recover from failure based on your architectural design. This is because failures are bound to happen and your architecture must be able to recover...