AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide With 500 Practice Test Questions: Foundational (CLF-C02) Exam (Sybex Study Guide)

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Contents at a Glance
Contents
Table of Exercises
Introduction
	What Does This Book Cover?
	Interactive Online Learning Environment and Test Bank
	Exam Objectives
	Objective Map
	Assessment  Test
	Answers to Assessment  Test
Chapter 1 The Cloud
	What Is Cloud Computing?
		Highly Available and Scalable Resources
		Professionally Secured Infrastructure
		Metered Payment Model
	Server Virtualization: The Basics
	Cloud Platform Models
		Infrastructure as a Service
		Platform as a Service
		Software as a Service
		Serverless Workloads
	Scalability and Elasticity
		Scalability
		Elasticity
	Summary
	Exam Essentials
	Review Questions
Chapter 2 Understanding Your AWS Account
	The Free Tier
		How Does the Free Tier Work?
		Tracking Your Free Tier Usage
		What’s Available Under the Free Tier?
	Product Pricing
		Finding AWS Pricing Documentation
		Working with the AWS Pricing Calculator
	Service Limits
	Billing and Cost Management
		The AWS Billing Dashboard
		AWS Budgets
		Monitoring Your Costs
		AWS Organizations
	Summary
	Exam Essentials
	Review Questions
Chapter 3 Getting Support on AWS
	Support Plans
		Support Plan Pricing
		The Basic Support Plan
		The Developer Support Plan
		The Business Support Plan
		The Enterprise Support Plan
		AWS Professional Services
	Documentation and Online Help
		Documentation
		Discussion Forums
	Trusted Advisor
	Summary
	Exam Essentials
	Review Questions
Chapter 4 Understanding the AWS Environment
	AWS Global Infrastructure: AWS Regions
		Regionally Based Services
		Globally Based Services
		Service Endpoints
	AWS Global Infrastructure: Availability Zones
		Availability Zone Designations
		Availability Zone Networking
		Availability Zones and High Availability
	AWS Global Infrastructure: Edge Locations
		Edge Locations and CloudFront
		Regional Edge Cache Locations
	AWS Global Infrastructure: Extending the Cloud
		AWS Outposts
		AWS Local Zones
		AWS Wavelength
	The AWS Shared Responsibility Model
		Managed Resources
		Unmanaged Resources
		Service Health Status
		AWS Acceptable Use Policy
	Summary
	Exam Essentials
	Review Questions
Chapter 5 Securing Your AWS Resources
	AWS Identity and Access Management
		Protecting the Root User
		Authentication
		Users, Groups, and Roles
		Providing Federated Access
		Credential Report
	Encryption
	Regulatory Compliance (AWS Artifact)
	Other AWS Security and Compliance Tools
	Summary
	Exam Essentials
	Review Questions
Chapter 6 Working with Your AWS Resources
	The AWS Management Console
		Accessing the AWS Management Console
		Opening a Service Console
		Working with Shortcuts
		Selecting a Region
		The Account Name Menu
		Resource Groups
		Tag Editor
		Tagging Strategies
		The AWS Console Mobile Application
	The AWS Command-Line Interface
		Requirements
		Installation
	Software Development Kits
		Mobile Software Development Kits
		Internet of Things Device Software Development Kits
	CloudWatch
		CloudWatch Metrics
		CloudWatch Alarms
		CloudWatch Dashboards
		CloudWatch Logs
		CloudWatch Events
	CloudTrail
		API and Non-API Events
		Management and Data Events
		Event History
		Trails
		Log File Integrity Validation
	Cost Explorer
		Cost and Usage
		Reservation Reports
		Reserved Instance Recommendations
		AWS Billing Conductor
	AWS Config
		The Configuration Recorder, Items, and History
		Configuration Snapshots
		Managed and Custom Rules
	AWS Control Tower
	AWS License Manager
	Summary
	Exam Essentials
	Review Questions
Chapter 7 The Core Compute Services
	Deploying Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Servers
		Amazon Machine Images
		Understanding EC2 Instance Types
		Server Storage: Elastic Block Store and Instance Store Volumes
		Understanding EC2 Pricing Models
	Simplified Deployments Through Managed Services
		Amazon Lightsail
		AWS Elastic Beanstalk
	Deploying Container and Serverless Workloads
		Containers
		Serverless Functions
	Summary
	Exam Essentials
	Review Questions
Chapter 8 The Core Storage Services
	Simple Storage Service
		Objects and Buckets
		S3 Storage Classes
		Access Permissions
		Encryption
		Versioning
		Object Life-Cycle Configurations
	S3 Glacier
		Archives and Vaults
		Retrieval Options
	AWS Storage Gateway
		File Gateways
		Volume Gateways
		Tape Gateways
	AWS Snow Family
		Snowcone
		Snowball
		Snowmobile
	Other Storage-Related Services
		AWS Transfer Family
		Amazon FSx
		AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
	Summary
	Exam Essentials
	Review Questions
Chapter 9 The Core Database Services
	Database Models
		Relational Databases
		Structured Query Language
		Nonrelational (No-SQL) Databases
		Amazon ElastiCache
		Amazon MemoryDB
	Amazon Relational Database Service
		Database Engines
		Licensing
		Instance Classes
		Scaling Vertically
		Storage
		Scaling Horizontally with Read Replicas
		High Availability with Multi-AZ
		Backup and Recovery
		Determining Your Recovery Point Objective
		Migrating Data to Your Database
	DynamoDB
		Items and Tables
		Scaling Horizontally
		Queries and Scans
	Amazon Redshift
	Analytics
		Amazon Kinesis
		Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)
		Amazon Elastic MapReduce
		Amazon OpenSearch Service
		AWS Data Exchange
	Summary
	Exam Essentials
	Review Questions
Chapter 10 The Core Networking Services
	Virtual Private Cloud
		VPC CIDR Blocks
		Subnets
		Internet Access
		Security Groups
		Network Access Control Lists
		VPC Peering
		Virtual Private Networks
		Direct Connect
		AWS Global Accelerator
		AWS Network Firewall
		AWS Firewall Manager
		AWS Web Application Firewall
	Route 53
		Resource Records
		Domain Name Registration
		Hosted Zones
		Routing Policies
		Health Checks
		Traffic Flow and Traffic Policies
	CloudFront
	Summary
	Exam Essentials
	Review Questions
Chapter 11 Automating Your AWS Workloads
	Automation
		The Imperative Approach
		The Declarative Approach
		Infrastructure as Code
	CloudFormation
		Templates
		Stacks
		CloudFormation vs. the AWS CLI
	AWS Developer Tools
		CodeCommit
		CodeBuild
		CodeDeploy
		CodePipeline
		CodeStar
		CodeArtifact
	EC2 Auto Scaling
		Launch Configurations and Launch Templates
		Auto Scaling Groups
		Scaling Actions
	Configuration Management
		Systems Manager
		OpsWorks
	Summary
	Exam Essentials
	Review Questions
Chapter 12 Common Use-Case Scenarios
	The Well-Architected Framework
		Reliability
		Performance Efficiency
		Security
		Cost Optimization
		Operational Excellence
		AWS Well-Architected Tool
	A Highly Available Web Application Using Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing
		Creating an Inbound Security Group Rule
		Creating an Application Load Balancer
		Creating a Launch Template
		Creating an Auto Scaling Group
	Static Website Hosting Using S3
	Machine Learning
		Amazon Comprehend
		Amazon Kendra
		Amazon Lex
		Amazon Rekognition
		Amazon SageMaker
		Amazon Textract
		Amazon Transcribe
		Amazon Translate
	Summary
	Exam Essentials
	Review Questions
Appendix A Answers to Review Questions
	Chapter 1: The Cloud
	Chapter 2: Understanding Your AWS Account
	Chapter 3: Getting Support on AWS
	Chapter 4: Understanding the AWS Environment
	Chapter 5: Securing Your AWS Resources
	Chapter 6: Working with Your AWS Resources
	Chapter 7: The Core Compute Services
	Chapter 8: The Core Storage Services
	Chapter 9: The Core Database Services
	Chapter 10: The Core Networking Services
	Chapter 11: Automating Your AWS Workloads
	Chapter 12: Common Use-Case Scenarios
Appendix B Additional Services
	Activate for Startups
	Amazon EventBridge
	AppStream 2.0
	Athena
	AWS Amplify
	AWS AppSync
	AWS Batch
	AWS CloudShell
	AWS Device Farm
	AWS Step Functions
	Backup
	Cognito
	Connect
	Database Migration Service
	Elastic File System
	Elastic MapReduce
	Glue
	Inspector
	IoT Core
	IoT Greengrass
	IQ
	Kinesis
	Macie
	Managed Services (AMS)
	Neptune
	Simple Queue Service
	WorkDocs
	WorkSpaces
	X-Ray
Index
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