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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

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at several services on AWS that can help you manage and govern your applications in the cloud. We discussed various monitoring and logging tools, such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Config, and how you can use these services to ensure performance, reliability, security, and effective change management. You also learned about the AWS Systems Manager service, which offers a suite of capabilities to centrally track and resolve operational issues across your AWS resources. We used AWS Systems Manager to automate day-to-day administrative tasks, ensure compliance of your resource configurations, offer incident and change management services, and improve visibility and control.

The AWS Trusted Advisor service offers a wide range of reports that allow you to cross-reference your resource configurations with various best-practice design principles. Finally, we discussed how you must follow the design principles and recommendations offered...