Who is Cloud Practictioner Certification for?
Non-technical roles.
It’s meants to give high-level understanding of AWS as a solutions provider.
What information do we generally need to know for this certification?
- What service to use
- Why to use it
- Security
What should you use for final preparations for this exam?
The study guide that’s available online from Amazon along with sample questions.
What are the domains of the exam?
- Cloud Concepts
- Security
- Technology
- Billing and Pricing
What is the NIST Cloud Computing Definition?
- On-demand, self-service.
- Broad network access – Services Have access to internet
- Resource pooling
- Rapid elasticity – Ability to grow/shrink on demand.
- Measured service – AKA Metered service, pay for what you use.
What are the service models for cloud computing?
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Cloud deployment models
- Private Cloud
- Community Cloud – Serveral Organizations make a private cloud
- Public Cloud – AWS is this
- Hybrid Cloud – Leverage public cloud for computing but link to private cloud.
What are the Compute services AWS offers?
- EC2
- Lambda
- Elastic Container Service (ECS)
What are the Storage services AWS offers?
- Elastic Block Store (EBS)
- Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Glacier
What are the Application services AWS offers?
- Simple Notification Service (SNS)
- Simple Email Service (SES)
- Simple Queue Service (SQS)
What are the Datastore services AWS offers?
- Relational Database Service (RDS)
- DynamoDB
- ElastiCache
- Cassandra/Mongo (on EC2)
What are the Analytics services AWS offers?
- Kinesis
- Elasticsearch Service
- Redshift
- EMR
- Athena
What are the Networking services AWS offers?
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Subnets
- Routing
- Network Access Control Lists
- Security Groups
What are the Development/Deployment services AWS offers?
- CodeCommit
- CodeDeploy
- CodeBuild
- CodePipeline
- Elastic Beanstalk
- OpsWorks
