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Preparation Strategies: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam

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Exam Preparation Resources

• Training can help you advance your technical skills and learn best practices for working with AWS.

• To build foundational knowledge:

  1. AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
           Digital | 4.5 hours
  2. AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
           Classroom | 1 day

• Broaden your technical understanding with whitepapers written by the AWS team, independent analysts, and AWS partners.

• STUDY TIP: Focus on the following whitepapers.

• Overview of Amazon Web Service|| Architecting for the Cloud: AWS Best Practices ||How AWS Pricing Works || Compare AWS Support Plans

Exam Strategies

  1. Read both the question and the answer in full one time through.
  2. Identify the features mentioned in the answers.
  3. Identify text in the question that implies certain AWS features.
    Examples: required 1OPS, data retrieval times.
  4. Pay attention to qualifying clauses (e.g, "in the most cost-effective way," "will best fulfill"); these clauses may eliminate certain answers.
  5. Eliminate obviously wrong answers to narrow the selection of possible right

Cloud Concepts: Review

  1. Amazon CloudWatch: Have complete visibility of your cloud resources and applications
  2. Elastic Load Balancing Application Auto Scaling: Deploy highly available applications that scale with demand
  3. AWS Database Services: Run SQL or NoSQL databases without the management overhead.
  4. AWS CloudFormation: Programmatically deploy repeatable infrastructure.
  5. AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Deploy your application in the simplest way possible
  6. AWS Direct Connect: Provision a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS
  7. Amazon Route 53: Run a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.
  8. AWS Lambda: Run code without managing servers
  9. Amazon CloudFront: Deliver your content across a massively scaled and globally available network

Cloud Concepts: Review

• With a pay-as-you-go pricing, cloud services platform AWS delivers:  Compute power  Storage  Database services  Other resources

Regions and Availability Zones are more highly available, fault-tolerant, and Scalable than traditional datacentre infrastructures.

AWS supports three different management interfaces to access your account:  Web-based AWS Management Console (mobile app as well)  .CLI  SDKs

Security: Review

• Security is the highest priority at AWS. • The Shared Responsibility Model defines security responsibilities between AWS and the Customer. • IAM controls access to AWS services and resources securely. • Amazon Inspector assesses the security of your AWS resources. • AWS Shield protects applications running on AWS against DDoS attacks. • AWS security assurance programs help customers maintain security and data compliance.

Domain 3: Exam Outline

• 3.1 Define methodology of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud • 3.2 Define the AWS global infrastructure • 3.3 Identify the core AWS services • 3.4 Identify resources for technology support

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