AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Table of Contents

• Fundamental Cloud Concepts for AWS
  • Understanding Cloud Computing
  • AWS Global Infrastructure
  • Understanding Cloud Economics
  • Supporting AWS Infrastructure
• Understanding AWS Core Services
  • Core Services Overview
  • Interacting with AWS
  • Compute Services
  • Content and Network Delivery Services
  • File Storage Services
  • Database Services and Utilities
  • App Integration Services
  • Management and Governance Services
• Introduction to Security and Architecture on AWS
  • Security and Architecture Overview
  • AWS Architecture Core Concepts
  • AWS Identities and User Management
  • Data Architecture on AWS
  • Disaster Recovery on AWS
  • Architecting Applications on Amazon EC2
  • The Certification Exam
• Topics
• Exam Questions and Answers
• References

Fundamental Cloud Concepts for AWS

Understanding Cloud Computing

1. Setting up an AWS Account
2. Traditional Data Centers
3. Benefits of Cloud Computing
4. Types of Cloud Computing
5. Cloud Computing Scenarios
6. Summary

AWS Global Infrastructure

1. Overview
2. AWS Regions and Availability Zones
3. AWS Edge Locations
4. Visualizing AWS Global Infrastructure
5. Scenarios
6. Summary

Understanding Cloud Economics

1. Economics of the Cloud
2. Organizing and Optimizing AWS Costs
3. Using the AWS TCO Calculator
4. Using the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
5. Reviewing Costs with the Cost Explorer
6. Applying Cloud Economics
7. Summary

Supporting AWS Infrastructure

1. Support Resources
2. AWS Support Plan Tiers
3. AWS Support Tools
4. Infrastructure Support Scenarios
5. Summary
6. Preparing for the Exam

Understanding AWS Core Services

Core Services Overview

1. Course Overview

Interacting with AWS

1. Overview
2. Methods of Interacting with AWS
3. Using the AWS Console
4. Using the AWS CLI
5. Scenario Based Review
6. Summary

Compute Services

1. Overview
2. Amazon EC2 Overview
3. Amazon EC2 Purchase Types
4. Launching EC2 Instances
5. AWS Elastic Beanstalk Overview
6. Launching an App on Elastic Beanstalk
7. AWS Lambda Overview
8. Scenario Review
9. Summary

Content and Network Delivery Services

1. Overview
2. Amazon VPC and Direct Connect
3. Amazon Route 53
4. Elastic Load Balancing
5. Amazon CloudFront and API Gateway
6. Scenario Based Review
7. Summary

File Storage Services

1. Overview
2. Amazon S3 Overview
3. Hosting a Website on Amazon S3
4. Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive
5. Elastic Block Store
6. Elastic File System
7. Data Transfer with AWS Snowball
8. Scenario Based Review
9. Summary

Database Services and Utilities

1. Overview
2. Amazon Relational Database Service
3. Amazon DynamoDB Overview
4. Amazon Elasticache and Redshift
5. Scenario Based Review
6. Summary

App Integration Services

1. Overview
2. AWS Messaging Services
3. AWS Step Functions
4. Scenario Based Review
5. Summary

Management and Governance Services

1. Overview
2. AWS CloudTrail
3. Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Config
4. AWS Systems Manager
5. AWS CloudFormation
6. AWS Organizations and Control Tower
7. Scenario Based Review
8. Summary
9. Preparing for the Exam

Introduction to Security and Architecture on AWS

Security and Architecture Overview

1. Course Overview

AWS Architecture Core Concepts

1. Overview
2. Security and Architecture Overview
3. Shared Responsibility Model
4. AWS Well-architected Framework
5. High-availability and Fault Tolerance
6. Compliance
7. Scenario Based Review
8. Summary

AWS Identities and User Management

1. Overview
2. Introduction to AWS IAM
3. Creating and Managing IAM Users
4. Enabling Multi-factor Authentication
5. Amazon Cognito
6. Scenario Based Review
7. Summary

Data Architecture on AWS

1. Overview
2. Integrating On-premise Data
3. Processing Data
4. Analyzing Data
5. Integrating AI and Machine Learning
6. Scenario Based Review
7. Summary

Disaster Recovery on AWS

1. Overview
2. Disaster Recovery Architectures
3. Selecting a Disaster Recovery Architecture
4. Scenario Based Review
5. Summary

Architecting Applications on Amazon EC2

1. Overview
2. Scaling EC2 Infrastructure
3. Controlling Access to EC2 Instances
4. Protecting Infrastructure from Attacks
5. Deploying Pre-defined Solutions
6. Developer Tools
7. Scenario Based Review
8. Summary

The Certification Exam

1. The Exam
2. Registering for the Exam
3. Studying for and Taking the Exam

Topics

1. CAP Theorem
2. The 8 Fallacies of Distributed Systems

Exam Questions and Answers

References

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01)
• Fundamental Cloud Concepts for AWS
• Understanding AWS Core Services
• Introduction to Security and Architecture on AWS
• Amazon AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam