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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

AWS Free Tier accounts

An AWS Free Tier account is a normal standard account that can be used for any purpose or workload type. AWS offers a generous Free Tier for the first 12 months of opening any new account. The Free Tier offers access to more than 85 AWS technologies and services (at the time of writing this training guide), wherein if you consume these services up to specified thresholds, you will not be charged. For example, under the Free Tier, you can do the following:

  • Consume up to 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage for up to 12 months, free of charge.
  • Launch a t.2micro Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance running either a specific distribution of the Linux OS or a base Windows OS for up to 750 hours a month. In fact, with this offering, you could potentially run one low-powered website for an entire year without incurring the cost of compute for those 12 months. The Free Tier offering for EC2 is based on the number of hours per month, so there is nothing to stop you...