Distinguish yourself by becoming a certified AWS Cloud Practitioner
In the newly revised second edition of AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide: Foundational (CLF-C02) Exam, a team of veteran IT professionals and educators delivers an up-to-date and easy-to-follow introduction to Amazon’s industry-leading cloud technology and the introductory certification exam that demonstrates your understanding of it.
Used by thousands of companies across the globe, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an integral part of business IT operations at firms in virtually every industry and sector. In this book, you’ll prepare to pass the recently updated AWS Certification Exam and prove your knowledge of critical AWS cloud technologies and capabilities. You’ll find complete and thorough coverage of every topic included on the exam, from infrastructure to architecture and cybersecurity. You’ll also discover comprehensive discussions of the AWS Cloud value proposition, as well as billing, account management, and pricing models.
After reading and completing the practice questions provided by this book, you’ll be able to:
- Distinguish yourself as an AWS expert by obtaining a highly sought-after certification in a popular cloud platform
- Hone your skills and gain new insights on AWS Cloud you can use in your own profession, whether you work in a technical, managerial, sales, purchasing, or financial role
- Fully prepare for and succeed on the new exam using expert content based on real-world knowledge, key exam essentials, and chapter review questions
- Includes 1 year of access to the Sybex online interactive learning environment and test bank, including hundreds of practice questions, a key term glossary, and electronic flashcards, all supported by Wiley's support agents who are available 24x7 via email or live chat to assist with access and login questions
The AWS Certified AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide is an essential resource for any IT professional that works directly with Amazon Web Services, as well as students in IT fields, and non-technical professionals who work with and alongside technical experts.
Table of Contents
Introduction xxiii
Assessment Test xxix
Chapter 1 The Cloud 1
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 6
Scalability 7
Elasticity 7
Summary 8
Exam Essentials 9
Review Questions 10
Chapter 2 Understanding Your AWS Account 13
The Free Tier 14
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 the AWS Pricing Calculator 19
Service Limits 21
Billing and Cost Management 21
The AWS Billing Dashboard 21
AWS Budgets 22
Monitoring Your Costs 23
AWS Organizations 24
Summary 24
Exam Essentials 24
Review Questions 26
Chapter 3 Getting Support on AWS 29
Support Plans 30
Support Plan Pricing 30
The Basic Support Plan 32
The Developer Support Plan 33
The Business Support Plan 33
The Enterprise Support Plan 33
AWS Professional Services 34
Documentation and Online Help 34
Documentation 34
Discussion Forums 36
Trusted Advisor 37
Summary 39
Exam Essentials 39
Review Questions 40
Chapter 4 Understanding the AWS Environment 45
AWS Global Infrastructure: AWS Regions 46
Regionally Based Services 48
Globally Based Services 49
Service Endpoints 50
AWS Global Infrastructure: Availability Zones 50
Availability Zone Designations 51
Availability Zone Networking 52
Availability Zones and High Availability 52
AWS Global Infrastructure: Edge Locations 53
Edge Locations and CloudFront 54
Regional Edge Cache Locations 55
AWS Global Infrastructure: Extending the Cloud 55
AWS Outposts 55
AWS Local Zones 56
AWS Wavelength 56
The AWS Shared Responsibility Model 56
Managed Resources 58
Unmanaged Resources 58
Service Health Status 58
AWS Acceptable Use Policy 59
Summary 59
Exam Essentials 60
Review Questions 61
Chapter 5 Securing Your AWS Resources 65
AWS Identity and Access Management 66
Protecting the Root User 66
Authentication 67
Users, Groups, and Roles 70
Providing Federated Access 72
Credential Report 73
Encryption 73
Regulatory Compliance (AWS Artifact) 74
Other AWS Security and Compliance Tools 74
Summary 75
Exam Essentials 76
Review Questions 77
Chapter 6 Working with Your AWS Resources 81
The AWS Management Console 82
Accessing the AWS Management Console 83
Opening a Service Console 85
Working with Shortcuts 85
Selecting a Region 85
The Account Name Menu 87
Resource Groups 88
Tag Editor 89
Tagging Strategies 90
The AWS Console Mobile Application 91
The AWS Command- Line Interface 95
Requirements 96
Installation 97
Software Development Kits 99
Mobile Software Development Kits 99
Internet of Things Device Software Development Kits 100
CloudWatch 100
CloudWatch Metrics 101
CloudWatch Alarms 101
CloudWatch Dashboards 102
CloudWatch Logs 102
CloudWatch Events 104
CloudTrail 104
API and Non- API Events 105
Management and Data Events 105
Event History 105
Trails 106
Log File Integrity Validation 106
Cost Explorer 106
Cost and Usage 106
Reservation Reports 108
Reserved Instance Recommendations 109
AWS Billing Conductor 110
AWS Config 111
The Configuration Recorder, Items, and History 111
Configuration Snapshots 112
Managed and Custom Rules 112
AWS Control Tower 112
AWS License Manager 112
Summary 113
Exam Essentials 113
Review Questions 115
Chapter 7 The Core Compute Services 119
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 127
AWS Elastic Beanstalk 128
Deploying Container and Serverless Workloads 128
Containers 129
Serverless Functions 129
Summary 129
Exam Essentials 130
Review Questions 132
Chapter 8 The Core Storage Services 137
Simple Storage Service 138
Objects and Buckets 138
S3 Storage Classes 139
Access Permissions 142
Encryption 143
Versioning 144
Object Life-Cycle Configurations 144
S3 Glacier 145
Archives and Vaults 145
Retrieval Options 146
AWS Storage Gateway 146
File Gateways 147
Volume Gateways 147
Tape Gateways 147
AWS Snow Family 148
Snowcone 148
Snowball 148
Snowmobile 151
Other Storage- Related Services 151
AWS Transfer Family 151
Amazon FSx 151
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery 152
Summary 152
Exam Essentials 153
Review Questions 154
Chapter 9 The Core Database Services 159
Database Models 160
Relational Databases 160
Structured Query Language 162
Nonrelational (No- SQL) Databases 162
Amazon ElastiCache 163
Amazon MemoryDB 163
Amazon Relational Database Service 164
Database Engines 164
Licensing 164
Instance Classes 165
Scaling Vertically 166
Storage 166
Scaling Horizontally with Read Replicas 167
High Availability with Multi- AZ 167
Backup and Recovery 168
Determining Your Recovery Point Objective 168
Migrating Data to Your Database 168
DynamoDB 169
Items and Tables 169
Scaling Horizontally 170
Queries and Scans 170
Amazon Redshift 171
Analytics 172
Amazon Kinesis 172
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) 174
Amazon Elastic MapReduce 174
Amazon OpenSearch Service 175
AWS Data Exchange 175
Summary 175
Exam Essentials 176
Review Questions 178
Chapter 10 The Core Networking Services 183
Virtual Private Cloud 184
VPC CIDR Blocks 184
Subnets 185
Internet Access 186
Security Groups 186
Network Access Control Lists 186
VPC Peering 186
Virtual Private Networks 187
Direct Connect 187
AWS Global Accelerator 187
AWS Network Firewall 188
AWS Firewall Manager 188
AWS Web Application Firewall 188
Route 53 189
Resource Records 189
Domain Name Registration 189
Hosted Zones 190
Routing Policies 190
Health Checks 191
Traffic Flow and Traffic Policies 191
CloudFront 192
Summary 192
Exam Essentials 193
Review Questions 194
Chapter 11 Automating Your AWS Workloads 199
Automation 200
The Imperative Approach 200
The Declarative Approach 201
Infrastructure as Code 201
CloudFormation 201
Templates 202
Stacks 202
CloudFormation vs. the AWS cli 203
AWS Developer Tools 204
CodeCommit 204
CodeBuild 205
CodeDeploy 206
CodePipeline 207
CodeStar 208
CodeArtifact 209
EC2 Auto Scaling 210
Launch Configurations and Launch Templates 210
Auto Scaling Groups 210
Scaling Actions 211
Configuration Management 211
Systems Manager 212
OpsWorks 213
Summary 215
Exam Essentials 216
Review Questions 217
Chapter 12 Common Use- Case Scenarios 221
The Well- Architected Framework 222
Reliability 223
Performance Efficiency 223
Security 223
Cost Optimization 224
Operational Excellence 225
AWS Well- Architected Tool 225
A Highly Available Web Application Using Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing 226
Creating an Inbound Security Group Rule 227
Creating an Application Load Balancer 228
Creating a Launch Template 231
Creating an Auto Scaling Group 232
Static Website Hosting Using S 3 234
Machine Learning 236
Amazon Comprehend 237
Amazon Kendra 237
Amazon Lex 237
Amazon Rekognition 238
Amazon SageMaker 238
Amazon Textract 238
Amazon Transcribe 238
Amazon Translate 239
Summary 239
Exam Essentials 239
Review Questions 241
Appendix A Answers to Review Questions 245
Chapter 1: The Cloud 246
Chapter 2: Understanding Your AWS Account 246
Chapter 3: Getting Support on AWS 247
Chapter 4: Understanding the AWS Environment 249
Chapter 5: Securing Your AWS Resources 250
Chapter 6: Working with Your AWS Resources 252
Chapter 7: The Core Compute Services 254
Chapter 8: The Core Storage Services 255
Chapter 9: The Core Database Services 257
Chapter 10: The Core Networking Services 259
Chapter 11: Automating Your AWS Workloads 261
Chapter 12: Common Use- Case Scenarios 262
Appendix B Additional Services 265
Activate for Startups 266
Amazon EventBridge 266
AppStream 2.0 266
Athena 267
AWS Amplify 267
AWS AppSync 267
AWS Batch 267
AWS CloudShell 268
AWS Device Farm 268
AWS Step Functions 268
Backup 268
Cognito 269
Connect 269
Database Migration Service 269
Elastic File System 269
Elastic MapReduce 270
Glue 270
Inspector 270
IoT Core 270
IoT Greengrass 270
Iq 271
Kinesis 271
Macie 271
Managed Services (AMS) 271
Neptune 272
Simple Queue Service 272
WorkDocs 272
WorkSpaces 272
X- Ray 272
Index 273
