AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide With 500 Practice Test Questions

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• Introduction xxiiiAssessment Test xxixChapter 1 The Cloud 1What Is Cloud Computing? 2Highly Available and Scalable Resources 2Professionally Secured Infrastructure 3Metered Payment Model 3Server Virtualization: The Basics 4Cloud Platform Models 5Infrastructure as a Service 5Platform as a Service 5Software as a Service 5Serverless Workloads 6Scalability and Elasticity 6Scalability 7Elasticity 7Summary 8Exam Essentials 9Review Questions 10Chapter 2 Understanding Your AWS Account 13The Free Tier 14How Does the Free Tier Work? 15Tracking Your Free Tier Usage 15What’s Available Under the Free Tier? 17Product Pricing 18Finding AWS Pricing Documentation 18Working with the AWS Pricing Calculator 19Service Limits 21Billing and Cost Management 21The AWS Billing Dashboard 21AWS Budgets 22Monitoring Your Costs 23AWS Organizations 24Summary 24Exam Essentials 24Review Questions 26Chapter 3 Getting Support on AWS 29Support Plans 30Support Plan Pricing 30The Basic Support Plan 32The Developer Support Plan 33The Business Support Plan 33The Enterprise Support Plan 33AWS Professional Services 34Documentation and Online Help 34Documentation 34Discussion Forums 36Trusted Advisor 37Summary 39Exam Essentials 39Review Questions 40Chapter 4 Understanding the AWS Environment 45AWS Global Infrastructure: AWS Regions 46Regionally Based Services 48Globally Based Services 49Service Endpoints 50AWS Global Infrastructure: Availability Zones 50Availability Zone Designations 51Availability Zone Networking 52Availability Zones and High Availability 52AWS Global Infrastructure: Edge Locations 53Edge Locations and CloudFront 54Regional Edge Cache Locations 55AWS Global Infrastructure: Extending the Cloud 55AWS Outposts 55AWS Local Zones 56AWS Wavelength 56The AWS Shared Responsibility Model 56Managed Resources 58Unmanaged Resources 58Service Health Status 58AWS Acceptable Use Policy 59Summary 59Exam Essentials 60Review Questions 61Chapter 5 Securing Your AWS Resources 65AWS Identity and Access Management 66Protecting the Root User 66Authentication 67Users, Groups, and Roles 70Providing Federated Access 72Credential Report 73Encryption 73Regulatory Compliance (AWS Artifact) 74Other AWS Security and Compliance Tools 74Summary 75Exam Essentials 76Review Questions 77Chapter 6 Working with Your AWS Resources 81The AWS Management Console 82Accessing the AWS Management Console 83Opening a Service Console 85Working with Shortcuts 85Selecting a Region 85The Account Name Menu 87Resource Groups 88Tag Editor 89Tagging Strategies 90The AWS Console Mobile Application 91The AWS Command- Line Interface 95Requirements 96Installation 97Software Development Kits 99Mobile Software Development Kits 99Internet of Things Device Software Development Kits 100CloudWatch 100CloudWatch Metrics 101CloudWatch Alarms 101CloudWatch Dashboards 102CloudWatch Logs 102CloudWatch Events 104CloudTrail 104API and Non- API Events 105Management and Data Events 105Event History 105Trails 106Log File Integrity Validation 106Cost Explorer 106Cost and Usage 106Reservation Reports 108Reserved Instance Recommendations 109AWS Billing Conductor 110AWS Config 111The Configuration Recorder, Items, and History 111Configuration Snapshots 112Managed and Custom Rules 112AWS Control Tower 112AWS License Manager 112Summary 113Exam Essentials 113Review Questions 115Chapter 7 The Core Compute Services 119Deploying Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Servers 120Amazon Machine Images 120Understanding EC2 Instance Types 123Server Storage: Elastic Block Store and Instance Store Volumes 124Understanding EC2 Pricing Models 125Simplified Deployments Through Managed Services 127Amazon Lightsail 127AWS Elastic Beanstalk 128Deploying Container and Serverless Workloads 128Containers 129Serverless Functions 129Summary 129Exam Essentials 130Review Questions 132Chapter 8 The Core Storage Services 137Simple Storage Service 138Objects and Buckets 138S3 Storage Classes 139Access Permissions 142Encryption 143Versioning 144Object Life-Cycle Configurations 144S3 Glacier 145Archives and Vaults 145Retrieval Options 146AWS Storage Gateway 146File Gateways 147Volume Gateways 147Tape Gateways 147AWS Snow Family 148Snowcone 148Snowball 148Snowmobile 151Other Storage- Related Services 151AWS Transfer Family 151Amazon FSx 151AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery 152Summary 152Exam Essentials 153Review Questions 154Chapter 9 The Core Database Services 159Database Models 160Relational Databases 160Structured Query Language 162Nonrelational (No- SQL) Databases 162Amazon ElastiCache 163Amazon MemoryDB 163Amazon Relational Database Service 164Database Engines 164Licensing 164Instance Classes 165Scaling Vertically 166Storage 166Scaling Horizontally with Read Replicas 167High Availability with Multi- AZ 167Backup and Recovery 168Determining Your Recovery Point Objective 168Migrating Data to Your Database 168DynamoDB 169Items and Tables 169Scaling Horizontally 170Queries and Scans 170Amazon Redshift 171Analytics 172Amazon Kinesis 172Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) 174Amazon Elastic MapReduce 174Amazon OpenSearch Service 175AWS Data Exchange 175Summary 175Exam Essentials 176Review Questions 178Chapter 10 The Core Networking Services 183Virtual Private Cloud 184VPC CIDR Blocks 184Subnets 185Internet Access 186Security Groups 186Network Access Control Lists 186VPC Peering 186Virtual Private Networks 187Direct Connect 187AWS Global Accelerator 187AWS Network Firewall 188AWS Firewall Manager 188AWS Web Application Firewall 188Route 53 189Resource Records 189Domain Name Registration 189Hosted Zones 190Routing Policies 190Health Checks 191Traffic Flow and Traffic Policies 191CloudFront 192Summary 192Exam Essentials 193Review Questions 194Chapter 11 Automating Your AWS Workloads 199Automation 200The Imperative Approach 200The Declarative Approach 201Infrastructure as Code 201CloudFormation 201Templates 202Stacks 202CloudFormation vs. the AWS cli 203AWS Developer Tools 204CodeCommit 204CodeBuild 205CodeDeploy 206CodePipeline 207CodeStar 208CodeArtifact 209EC2 Auto Scaling 210Launch Configurations and Launch Templates 210Auto Scaling Groups 210Scaling Actions 211Configuration Management 211Systems Manager 212OpsWorks 213Summary 215Exam Essentials 216Review Questions 217Chapter 12 Common Use- Case Scenarios 221The Well- Architected Framework 222Reliability 223Performance Efficiency 223Security 223Cost Optimization 224Operational Excellence 225AWS Well- Architected Tool 225A Highly Available Web Application Using Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing 226Creating an Inbound Security Group Rule 227Creating an Application Load Balancer 228Creating a Launch Template 231Creating an Auto Scaling Group 232Static Website Hosting Using S 3 234Machine Learning 236Amazon Comprehend 237Amazon Kendra 237Amazon Lex 237Amazon Rekognition 238Amazon SageMaker 238Amazon Textract 238Amazon Transcribe 238Amazon Translate 239Summary 239Exam Essentials 239Review Questions 241Appendix A Answers to Review Questions 245Chapter 1: The Cloud 246Chapter 2: Understanding Your AWS Account 246Chapter 3: Getting Support on AWS 247Chapter 4: Understanding the AWS Environment 249Chapter 5: Securing Your AWS Resources 250Chapter 6: Working with Your AWS Resources 252Chapter 7: The Core Compute Services 254Chapter 8: The Core Storage Services 255Chapter 9: The Core Database Services 257Chapter 10: The Core Networking Services 259Chapter 11: Automating Your AWS Workloads 261Chapter 12: Common Use- Case Scenarios 262Appendix B Additional Services 265Activate for Startups 266Amazon EventBridge 266AppStream 2.0 266Athena 267AWS Amplify 267AWS AppSync 267AWS Batch 267AWS CloudShell 268AWS Device Farm 268AWS Step Functions 268Backup 268Cognito 269Connect 269Database Migration Service 269Elastic File System 269Elastic MapReduce 270Glue 270Inspector 270IoT Core 270IoT Greengrass 270Iq 271Kinesis 271Macie 271Managed Services (AMS) 271Neptune 272Simple Queue Service 272WorkDocs 272WorkSpaces 272X- Ray 272Index 273