AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - EXAM REVIEW - 2021

Engage in a fast-paced, exam-focused review for the AWS certified cloud practitioner, using quick videos, presentations, comparisons, and tables to cover 40-plus services before the exam.

Explore cloud basics like elasticity and on-demand provisioning, and how pay-as-you-go turns capital expense into operational expenditure, with multiple regions and availability zones for high availability and low latency.

Explore AWS compute services for web apps, including EC2, ELB, and Elastic Beanstalk. Learn about Elastic Container Service with Fargate and Lambda, auto-scaling, and different load balancers.

Understand how AWS compute services distinguish infrastructure as a service from platform as a service, with EC2-based deployments and fully managed platforms like Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, ECS, and Fargate, including serverless concepts.

Navigate AWS storage options, including Amazon S3, Elastic Block Store and instance store, EFS, FSx for Lustre and Windows, S3 Glacier, Glacier Deep Archive, and Storage Gateway.

Explore AWS databases across relational RDS for OLTP, Redshift for OLAP, DynamoDB for NoSQL, and ElastiCache for caching, with features like Multi-AZ, read replicas, and backups.

Explore miscellaneous storage and database services such as Amazon DocumentDB (MongoDB compatible), Amazon Keyspaces, and AWS Backup, plus on-premises to cloud data transfer with Snowball, Snowball Edge, and Snowmobile.

Master AWS VPC concepts, including public and private subnets, internet gateways, NAT options, ACLs vs security groups, VPC peering, endpoints, and on‑premises connectivity via VPN or direct connect.

Master AWS security and encryption by exploring IAM concepts (users, groups, roles, policies), best practices (least privilege, MFA, rotation, CloudTrail), and key management with KMS and CloudHSM.

Explore AWS Shield, AWS WAF, Amazon Macie, and Amazon GuardDuty, plus AWS Certificate Manager and AWS Security Hub, to protect resources, monitor threats, and investigate root causes.

Learn how AWS monitoring and governance services like CloudTrail, Config, CloudWatch, EventBridge, and X-Ray track API calls, resource history, compliance rules, alarms, and tracing across regions.

Explore decoupling in AWS with SQS, SNS, and Kinesis, comparing asynchronous versus synchronous communication, queuing models, throughput, and streaming data processing for scalable, reliable architectures.

Discover how CloudFront delivers content via global edge locations, caching from origins like S3 or EC2, and how Route 53 manages DNS and routing policies.

Explore how AWS DevOps tools like CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, and CloudFormation enable continuous integration, delivery, and infrastructure as code for automated deployments.

Learn to manage multiple aws accounts with organizations, centralized billing, and service control policies, then optimize costs using trusted advisor, cost explorer, budgets, and pricing calculators.

Learn how Amazon API Gateway, Cognito, and Step Functions enable secure rest APIs, authentication and authorization, user pools and identity pools, and orchestrated serverless workflows.

Explore the AWS well-architected framework and its five pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization, and learn practical, scalable best practices for secure, efficient cloud infrastructure.

Explore the AWS shared responsibility model, where AWS secures the infrastructure while customers manage guest OS, data, patches, and applications, including S3 data protection and access controls.

Compare AWS support plans: basic, developer, business, and enterprise, and learn how enterprise includes a concierge and technical account manager, with 24/7 access and faster response times.

Learn how to register for the AWS certified cloud practitioner exam, sign in with your Amazon shopping account, schedule with a vendor, and request ESL plus 30 accommodations if needed.

Learn the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam format, question types, and timing, then apply targeted strategies to read questions thoroughly, identify keywords, eliminate wrong answers, and review before submitting.

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