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AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

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34+ Interactive Lessons | 2+ Exercises | 457+ Quizzes | 341+ Flashcards | 322+ Glossary of terms

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165+ Pre Assessment Questions | 2+ Full Length Tests | 140+ Post Assessment Questions | 280+ Practice Test Questions

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1

Introduction

2

The Cloud

  • Introduction
  • What Is Cloud Computing?
  • Server Virtualization: The Basics
  • Cloud Platform Models
  • Scalability and Elasticity
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
3

Understanding Your AWS Account

  • Introduction
  • The Free Tier
  • Product Pricing
  • Service Limits
  • Billing and Cost Management
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
4

Getting Support on AWS

  • Introduction
  • Support Plans
  • Documentation and Online Help
  • Trusted Advisor
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
5

Understanding the AWS Environment

  • Introduction
  • AWS Global Infrastructure: AWS Regions
  • AWS Global Infrastructure: Availability Zones
  • AWS Global Infrastructure: Edge Locations
  • The AWS Shared Responsibility Model
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
6

Securing Your AWS Resources

  • Introduction
  • AWS Identity and Access Management
  • Encryption
  • Regulatory Compliance (AWS Artifact)
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
7

Working with Your AWS Resources

  • Introduction
  • The AWS Management Console
  • The AWS Command Line Interface
  • Software Development Kits
  • CloudWatch
  • CloudTrail
  • Cost Explorer
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
8

The Core Compute Services

  • Introduction
  • Deploying Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Servers
  • Simplified Deployments Through Managed Services
  • Deploying Container and Serverless Workloads
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
9

The Core Storage Services

  • Introduction
  • Simple Storage Service
  • S3 Glacier
  • AWS Storage Gateway
  • AWS Snowball
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
10

The Core Database Services

  • Introduction
  • Database Models
  • Amazon Relational Database Service
  • DynamoDB
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
11

The Core Networking Services

  • Introduction
  • Virtual Private Cloud
  • Route 53
  • CloudFront
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
12

Automating Your AWS Workloads

  • Introduction
  • CloudFormation
  • AWS Developer Tools
  • EC2 Auto Scaling
  • Configuration Management
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
13

Common Use-Case Scenarios

  • Introduction
  • The Well-Architected Framework
  • A Highly Available Web Application Using Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing
  • Static Website Hosting Using S3
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
A

Appendix A: Additional Services

  • Athena
  • AWS Backup
  • AWS Glue
  • Batch
  • Cognito
  • Database Migration Service
  • Elastic File System
  • Elastic MapReduce
  • Inspector
  • Kinesis
  • Macie
  • Neptune
  • Simple Queue Service
  • WorkDocs
  • WorkSpaces
15

Introduction

  • What this course covers?
  • What you need for this course?
  • Who this course is for?
  • Conventions
16

An Introduction to Amazon Web Services

  • A background of AWS and its needs
  • The AWS Management Console
  • AWS security measures
  • AWS interaction through the SDK and IDE tools
  • Summary
17

Working with AWS Storage Services

  • AWS storage options
  • Working with Amazon EBS
  • Working with AWS
  • AWS Glacier
  • Summary
18

Computing and Networking Services

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
  • Best practices
  • Tools
  • Computing and networking tools and libraries
  • Summary
19

Managed Services and the Databases

  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon RDS
  • Database tools and libraries
  • DynamoDB local
  • The RDS command-line tool
  • Summary
20

Deployment and Management

  • AWS CloudFormation
  • Alarms with Amazon CloudWatch
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Application deployment using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • Summary
21

Working with the AWS Simple Notification Service – SNS

  • Identifying Amazon SNS
  • The service models of Amazon SNS
  • Accessing SNS using the Management Console
  • The sample code and libraries of SNS
  • Summary
22

Working with AWS SQS

  • AWS SQS
  • The baseline concept and object models of SQS
  • Code and libraries of the AWS SQS service
  • Summary
23

Building an Application Using AWS

  • An overview of an application
  • Tool selection
  • Creating an application
  • Summary
24

Introduction

  • What Does this Course Cover?
  • Exam Objectives
  • Objective Map
25

Introduction to Systems Operations on AWS

  • Systems Operators
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
  • Which AWS Services Should You Study?
  • Reference Architecture: The Three-Tier Design
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
26

Working with AWS Cloud Services

  • Introduction to AWS Cloud Services
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
  • Resources to Review
  • Exercises
27

Security and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

  • Security on AWS
  • Securing Your AWS Account with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Securing Your AWS Cloud Services
  • Monitoring to Enhance Security
  • AWS Cloud Service-Specific Security
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
  • Exercises
28

Compute

  • Introduction to AWS Compute Services
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
  • Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS)
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon Lightsail
  • AWS Batch
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials
  • Resources to Review
  • Exercises
29

Networking

  • Introduction to Networking on AWS
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
  • AWS Direct Connect
  • Load Balancing
  • Virtual Private Network (VPN)
  • Amazon Route 53
  • Amazon CloudFront
  • Summary
  • Resources to Review
  • Exam Essentials
  • Exercises
30

Storage Systems

  • Understanding Different Storage Options
  • Block Storage on AWS
  • Object Storage on AWS
  • Systems Operator Scenario: The Newspaper
  • Additional Storage Solutions
  • Summary
  • Resources to Review
  • Exam Essentials
  • Exercises
31

Databases

  • Introduction to AWS Databases
  • Monitoring Amazon RDS
  • Non-Relational Databases
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Databases
  • Amazon ElastiCache
  • Summary
  • Resources to Review
  • Exam Essentials
  • Exercises
32

Application Deployment and Management

  • Introduction to Application Deployment and Management
  • Deployment Strategies
  • Deployment Services
  • Summary
  • Resources to Review
  • Exam Essentials
  • Exercises
33

Monitoring and Metrics

  • Introduction to Monitoring and Metrics
  • An Overview of Monitoring
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • Amazon CloudWatch Events
  • Amazon CloudWatch Logs
  • Monitoring AWS Charges
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • AWS Config
  • Summary
  • Resources to Review
  • Exam Essentials
  • Exercises
34

High Availability

  • Introduction to High Availability
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service
  • Highly Available Architectures
  • Multi-Region High Availability
  • Highly Available Connectivity Options
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Summary
  • Resources to Review
  • Exam Essentials
  • Exercises

1

Securing Your AWS Resources

  • Creating an IAM Role
  • Creating an IAM Group
  • Creating an IAM User
2

The Core Compute Services

  • Launching an EC2 Instance
  • Creating an Encrypted EBS Volume
  • Configuring an AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application
  • Creating the AWS Lambda Function and Invoking It
3

The Core Storage Services

  • Creating an S3 Bucket and Enabling Versioning On It
4

The Core Database Services

  • Creating a DynamoDB Table and Adding an Item to It
  • Creating an Amazon Redshift Cluster
5

The Core Networking Services

  • Creating a Network ACL and Adding an Inbound Rule to It
  • Creating a Security Group
  • Creating a VPC and Subnets
6

An Introduction to Amazon Web Services

  • Creating an AMI from an EC2 Launched Instance
  • Enabling CloudTrail
7

Working with AWS Storage Services

  • Attaching Amazon EBS to an Instance
  • Creating a Glacier Vault
8

Computing and Networking Services

  • Using Amazon EC2
9

Deployment and Management

  • Creating a CloudWatch Alarm
10

Working with the AWS Simple Notification Service – SNS

  • Creating an Amazon SNS Topic
11

Working with AWS SQS

  • Enabling Long Polling in Amazon SQS from the AWS Management Console
  • Publishing a Message
12

Security and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

  • Creating a Linux Instance
  • Attaching an AWS IAM Role to an Instance
13

Compute

  • Configuring an Amazon Linux Instance
  • Creating a Template from an Instance
  • Assigning an Elastic IP Address to an EC2 Instance
  • Allocating an Elastic IP Address
14

Networking

  • Creating a VPC Peering Connection
  • Creating a Network Interface
  • Creating an Image from an Instance
  • Creating an Auto Scaling Group with a Single Instance
  • Creating a Health Check
  • Deleting a VPC
15

Storage Systems

  • Creating a Snapshot
16

Databases

  • Creating a New Option Group Using the Console
17

Application Deployment and Management

  • Creating an Application in Elastic Beanstalk
  • Creating a CloudFormation Template
  • Using the AWS Command Line Interface
18

Monitoring and Metrics

  • Creating a CloudWatch Dashboard and Adding a Metric to It
19

High Availability

  • Creating an Amazon SQS Queue
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