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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

Reviewing credential reports

AWS enables you to download a comma-separated values (CSV) file, updated every 4 hours, which allows you to audit your IAM user security state and review important information. The information could be a list of all your IAM users in your AWS account and the status of their credentials (such as if they have been configured with passwords and access keys). The report also highlights if your user accounts have been configured with MFA.

Monitoring your credentials report will also help you pick up on identities that may not have accessed resources in your AWS accounts recently. You can then work out whether those users still need access and delete unwanted users from your AWS accounts.

In this section, we looked at credential reports, which allow you to generate details of your IAM users and their current access status. In the next sections, we provide a number of exercises to help you build hands-on experience of using the IAM service to secure access...