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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

Exercise 7.3 – Launching an EC2 instance

In this exercise, we will launch a Windows-based EC2 instance in Public Subnet One of our ProductionVPC. We will use this EC2 instance as a Bastion Host, allowing us to configure other EC2 instances in the VPC:

  1. Log in to your AWS account and from the Services drop-down list, select EC2 under the Compute category, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 7.21 – Accessing the EC2 console

  2. From the Regions list in the top right-hand corner, ensure that you are in the US East N.Virgina (us-east-1) Region.
  3. On the EC2 dashboard, you will note that there are 0 Instances in the running state.
  4. Click on the Instances (running) link, as shown in the following screenshot. This will bring up the Instances console:

    Figure 7.22 – EC2 dashboard

  5. From the Instances console, select the Launch instances button from the top right-hand corner of the screen.
  6. You will now be presented with Step 1: Choose an Amazon...