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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

This chapter examined Amazon's core network services, comprising VPCs, Amazon's DNS service offering with Route53, and Amazon's CDN solution with Amazon CloudFront.

In this chapter, you learned how computers communicate with each other via IP addresses. You also learned that using IP addressing and CIDR block ranges, you can build isolated networks and subnetworks. We then discussed how you can build the same network architecture in the cloud using the Amazon VPC service. As part of setting up your VPC, you examined the use cases to build private and public subnets and explored tools for defining security rules and limiting the types of traffic that can enter and leave your VPC. We also looked at additional VPC services that enable you to interconnect multiple VPCs using VPC peering and how to build complex connections more easily across VPCs using AWS Transit Gateway.

Next, we learned about the AWS Route53 service, a DNS offering that provides domain name...