Set yourself apart by becoming an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Take the next step in your career by expanding and validating your skills on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide: Exam CLF-C01 provides a solid introduction to this industry-leading technology, relied upon by thousands of businesses across the globe, as well as the resources you need to prove your knowledge in the AWS Certification Exam. This guide offers complete and thorough treatment of all topics included in the exam, beginning with a discussion of what the AWS cloud is and its basic global infrastructure and architectural principles. Other chapters dive into the technical, exploring core characteristics of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud Platform, as well as basic security and compliance aspects and the shared security model. In addition, the text identifies sources of documentation or technical assistance, such as white papers or support tickets.
To complete their coverage, the authors discuss the AWS Cloud value proposition and define billing, account management, and pricing models. This includes describing the key services AWS can provide and their common use cases (e.g., compute, analytics, etc.).
- Distinguish yourself as an expert by obtaining a highly desirable certification in a widely used platform
- Hone your skills and gain new insights on AWS whether you work in a technical, managerial, sales, purchasing, or financial field
- Fully prepare for this new exam using expert content and real-world knowledge, key exam essentials, chapter review questions, and other textual resources
- Benefit from access to the Sybex online interactive learning environment and test bank, including chapter tests, practice exams, key term glossary, and electronic flashcards
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide is essential reading for any professional in IT or other fields that work directly with AWS, soon-to-be graduates studying in those areas, or anyone hoping to prove themselves as an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
Table of Contents:
Introduction xxi
Assessment Test xxvii
Chapter 1 The Cloud 1
Introduction 2
What Is Cloud Computing? 2
Highly Available and Scalable Resources 2
Professionally Secured Infrastructure 3
Metered Payment Model 3
Server Virtualization: The Basics 4
Cloud Platform Models 5
Infrastructure as a Service 5
Platform as a Service 5
Software as a Service 5
Serverless Workloads 6
Scalability and Elasticity 7
Scalability 7
Elasticity 7
Summary 8
Exam Essentials 9
Review Questions 10
Chapter 2 Understanding Your AWS Account 13
Introduction 14
The Free Tier 15
How Does the Free Tier Work? 15
Tracking Your Free Tier Usage 15
What’s Available Under the Free Tier? 17
Product Pricing 18
Finding AWS Pricing Documentation 18
Working with Online Calculators 19
Service Limits 23
Billing and Cost Management 23
The AWS Billing Dashboard 24
AWS Budgets 24
Monitoring Your Costs 25
AWS Organizations 26
Summary 26
Exam Essentials 27
Review Questions 28
Chapter 3 Getting Support on AWS 33
Introduction 34
Support Plans 34
Support Plan Pricing 34
The Basic Support Plan 36
The Developer Support Plan 36
The Business Support Plan 37
The Enterprise Support Plan 37
AWS Professional Services 37
Documentation and Online Help 38
Documentation 38
Discussion Forums 40
Trusted Advisor 40
Summary 42
Exam Essentials 43
Review Questions 44
Chapter 4 Understanding the AWS Environment 49
Introduction 50
AWS Global Infrastructure: AWS Regions 50
Regionally Based Services 52
Globally Based Services 53
Service Endpoints 53
AWS Global Infrastructure: Availability Zones 54
Availability Zone Designations 54
Availability Zone Networking 55
Availability Zones and High Availability 56
AWS Global Infrastructure: Edge Locations 57
Edge Locations and CloudFront 58
Regional Edge Cache Locations 59
The AWS Shared Responsibility Model 59
Managed Resources 60
Unmanaged Resources 61
Service Health Status 61
AWS Acceptable Use Policy 61
Summary 61
Exam Essentials 62
Review Questions 63
Chapter 5 Securing Your AWS Resources 67
Introduction 68
AWS Identity and Access Management 68
Protecting the Root User 69
Authentication 69
Users, Groups, and Roles 72
Providing Federated Access 74
Credential Report 75
Encryption 75
Regulatory Compliance (AWS Artifact) 76
Summary 77
Exam Essentials 77
Review Questions 78
Chapter 6 Working with Your AWS Resources 83
Introduction 84
The AWS Management Console 85
Accessing the AWS Management Console 85
Opening a Service Console 87
Working with Shortcuts 88
Selecting a Region 88
The Account Name Menu 90
Resource Groups 90
Tag Editor 91
Tagging Strategies 92
The AWS Console Mobile Application 94
The AWS Command Line Interface 98
Requirements 99
Installation 99
Software Development Kits 101
Mobile Software Development Kits 101
Internet of Things Device Software Development Kits 102
CloudWatch 103
CloudWatch Metrics 103
CloudWatch Alarms 104
CloudWatch Dashboards 104
CloudWatch Logs 105
CloudWatch Events 106
CloudTrail 107
API and Non-API Events 107
Management and Data Events 107
Event History 108
Trails 108
Log File Integrity Validation 108
Cost Explorer 109
Cost and Usage 109
Reservation Reports 111
Reserved Instance Recommendations 112
Summary 113
Exam Essentials 113
Review Questions 115
Chapter 7 The Core Compute Services 119
Introduction 120
Deploying Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Servers 120
Amazon Machine Images 120
Understanding EC2 Instance Types 123
Server Storage: Elastic Block Store and Instance
Store Volumes 124
Understanding EC2 Pricing Models 125
Simplified Deployments Through Managed Services 127
Amazon Lightsail 128
AWS Elastic Beanstalk 128
Deploying Container and Serverless Workloads 129
Containers 129
Serverless Functions 129
Summary 130
Exam Essentials 130
Review Questions 132
Chapter 8 The Core Storage Services 137
Introduction 138
Simple Storage Service 138
Objects and Buckets 139
S3 Storage Classes 139
Access Permissions 142
Encryption 143
Versioning 143
Object Life Cycle Configurations 144
S3 Glacier 145
Archives and Vaults 145
Retrieval Options 145
AWS Storage Gateway 146
File Gateways 146
Volume Gateways 146
Tape Gateways 147
AWS Snowball 147
Hardware Specifications 148
Security 148
Snowball Edge 149
Summary 150
Exam Essentials 150
Review Questions 152
Chapter 9 The Core Database Services 157
Introduction 158
Database Models 158
Relational Databases 159
Structured Query Language 160
Nonrelational (No-SQL) Databases 160
Amazon Relational Database Service 161
Database Engines 161
Licensing 162
Instance Classes 162
Scaling Vertically 163
Storage 163
Scaling Horizontally with Read Replicas 164
High Availability with Multi-AZ 164
Backup and Recovery 165
Determining Your Recovery Point Objective 165
DynamoDB 166
Items and Tables 166
Scaling Horizontally 167
Queries and Scans 167
Amazon Redshift 168
Summary 169
Exam Essentials 170
Review Questions 171
Chapter 10 The Core Networking Services 175
Introduction 176
Virtual Private Cloud 176
VPC CIDR Blocks 176
Subnets 177
Internet Access 178
Security Groups 178
Network Access Control Lists 178
VPC Peering 179
Virtual Private Networks 179
Direct Connect 179
Route 53 180
Resource Records 180
Domain Name Registration 180
Hosted Zones 181
Routing Policies 181
Health Checks 182
Traffic Flow and Traffic Policies 182
CloudFront 183
Summary 183
Exam Essentials 184
Review Questions 185
Chapter 11 Automating Your AWS Workloads 189
Introduction 190
The Imperative Approach 190
The Declarative Approach 191
Infrastructure as Code 191
CloudFormation 191
Templates 192
Stacks 192
CloudFormation vs. the AWS CLI 193
AWS Developer Tools 194
CodeCommit 194
CodeBuild 195
CodeDeploy 196
CodePipeline 197
EC2 Auto Scaling 199
Launch Configurations and Launch Templates 199
Auto Scaling Groups 199
Scaling Actions 200
Configuration Management 200
Systems Manager 200
OpsWorks 201
Summary 203
Exam Essentials 204
Review Questions 205
Chapter 12 Common Use-Case Scenarios 209
Introduction 210
The Well-Architected Framework 210
Reliability 211
Performance Efficiency 211
Security 211
Cost Optimization 212
Operational Excellence 213
A Highly Available Web Application Using Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing 213
Creating an Inbound Security Group Rule 214
Creating an Application Load Balancer 216
Creating a Launch Template 218
Creating an Auto Scaling Group 219
Static Website Hosting Using S3 222
Summary 224
Exam Essentials 224
Review Questions 226
Appendix A Answers to Review Questions 231
Chapter 1: The Cloud 232
Chapter 2: Understanding Your AWS Account 232
Chapter 3: Getting Support on AWS 234
Chapter 4: Understanding the AWS Environment 235
Chapter 5: Securing Your AWS Resources 237
Chapter 6: Working with Your AWS Resources 238
Chapter 7: The Core Compute Services 240
Chapter 8: The Core Storage Services 242
Chapter 9: The Core Database Services 244
Chapter 10: The Core Networking Services 245
Chapter 11: Automating Your AWS Workloads 247
Chapter 12: Common Use-Case Scenarios 248
Appendix B Additional Services 251
Athena 252
AWS Backup 252
AWS Glue 252
Batch 252
Cognito 253
Database Migration Service 253
Elastic File System 253
Elastic MapReduce 253
Inspector 254
Kinesis 254
Macie 254
Neptune 254
Simple Queue Service 254
WorkDocs 254
WorkSpaces 255
Index 257
About the Author :
Ben Piper, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, is an IT consultant who has created more than 20 training courses, covering Amazon Web Services, Cisco routing and switching, Puppet configuration management, and Windows Server Administration.
David Clinton, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, is a Linux server admin who has worked with IT infrastructure in both academic and enterprise environments. He has created more than 15 video courses, teaching Amazon Web Services and other technologies.
