AWS Certified DevOps Professional Engineer

Tutorials Dojo Study Guide and Cheat Sheets - AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
AWS CERTIFIED DEVOPS ENGINEER PROFESSIONAL EXAM OVERVIEW
AWS CERTIFIED DEVOPS ENGINEER PROFESSIONAL EXAM - STUDYGUIDE AND TIPS
Domain 1: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Automation
	Overview
	What is DevOps?
	A brief history of the DevOps Exam in AWS
	Why Automate?
	Types of Blue Green Deployment via ELB, Route 53, Elastic Beanstalk
	AWS Lambda Function Alias Traffic Shifting
	Basic Blue/Green Deployment using Route 53
	Using a Cloned Stack in OpsWorks for Implementing Blue/Green Deployment
	AWSCodeCommitFullAccess, AWSCodeCommitPowerUser, AWSCodeCommitReadOnly -Permissions
	Lifecycle Event Hook Availability (CodeDeploy Concept)
	Automatically Run CodeBuild Tests After a Developer Creates a CodeCommit Pull Request
	Managing Artifacts in AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline
	DynamoDB – Fetch vs Projected Attributes
	CodeBuild with CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, and Alarms
	CodeDeploy with CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, and Alarms
	CodePipeline and CloudWatch Events Integration
	CodeDeploy - Linear, Canary and All-at-Once (Pre-defined Deployments)
	Elastic Beanstalk - Deployment Policies and Settings
Domain 2: Configuration Management and Infrastructure-as-Code
	Overview
	What is Configuration Management?
	What is Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)?
	CloudFormation Cross-Stack Reference
	Lambda Function Artifact from S3 or CloudFormation Inline
	AutoScalingReplacingUpdate vs AutoScalingRollingUpdate Policy
	Time-Based vs Load-Based Instance
	Discovery Agent vs Discovery Connector
	CloudFormation Template for ECS, Auto Scaling and ALB
Domain 3: Monitoring and Logging
	Overview
	AWS Config Multi-Account Multi-Region Data Aggregation
	Consolidating CloudTrail Log Files from Multiple Sources
	Ensuring the Integrity of the CloudTrail Log Files
	Fetching Application Logs from Amazon EC2, ECS and On-premises Servers
	CloudWatch Logs Agent to CloudWatch Logs Subscription
	Monitoring Service Limits with Trusted Advisor
Domain 4: Policies and Standards Automation
	Overview
	Management and Governance on AWS
	AWS CodeBuild Configuration Best Practices
	AWS CodeCommit Managed Policies with Customized Permissions
	S3 Bucket Policy to Only Allow HTTPS Requests
	Secrets Manager vs. Systems Manager Parameter Store
	AWS Managed Policy
	Using Systems Manager Automation to create AMIs
	AWS SSM Session Manager to Record Sessions on your Instances
	AWS Systems Manager Inventory
	Systems Manager Patch Manager and Maintenance Windows
Domain 5: Incident and Event Response
	Overview
	Incident and Event Response Management on AWS
	Amazon S3 Event Notifications
	Amazon RDS Event Notifications
	AWS_RISK_CREDENTIALS_EXPOSED Event
	AWS-Scheduled Maintenance Notification to Slack Channel via CloudWatch Events
	Using AWS Health API and CloudWatch Events for Monitoring AWS-ScheduledDeployments/Changes
	Monitoring Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Events
	Monitoring Amazon S3 Data Events in AWS CloudTrail
	AWS CodePipeline Event Patterns
	Monitoring Deployments in AWS CodeDeploy with CloudWatch Events and Alarms
	Orchestrating Events in AWS CodePipeline
	Monitoring OpsWorks Auto-Healing Events
Domain 6: High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery
	Overview
	High Availability vs. Fault Tolerance
	Multi-AZ vs Multi-Region Architecture
	Disaster Recovery Objectives
	Amazon Route 53 Routing Policies
	Amazon RDS Disaster Recovery Strategies
	Auto Scaling Group with MinSize = 1 and MaxSize = 1
	Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks
AWS CHEAT SHEETS
	AWS Compute Services
	AWS Storage Services
	AWS Database Services
	AWS Networking & Content Delivery
	AWS Security & Identity Services
	AWS Management Tools
	AWS Analytics Services
	AWS Developer Tools
	AWS Application Services
	Comparison of AWS Services
FINAL REMARKS AND TIPS
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