Ben Piper - AWS® Certified Cloud Practitioner: Study Guide CLF-C01 Exam

Ben Piper

David Clinton

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We would like to thank the following people who helped us create this AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide CLF-C01 Exam.

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Lastlyonce againthe authors would like to thank each other!

David Clinton is a Linux server admin who has worked with IT infrastructure in both academic and enterprise environments. He has authored technology booksincluding AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide: Associate SAA-C01 Exam, Second Edition (Sybex, 2019)and created 20 video courses teaching Amazon Web Services and Linux administration, server virtualization, and IT security for Pluralsight.

In a previous life, David spent 20 years as a high school teacher. He currently lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife and family and can be reached through his website: https://bootstrap-it.com.

Ben Piper is a cloud and networking consultant who has authored multiple books including the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide: Associate SAA-C01 Exam, Second Edition (Sybex, 2019). He has created more than 20 training courses covering Amazon Web Services, Cisco routing and switching, Citrix, Puppet configuration management, and Windows Server Administration. You can contact Ben by visiting his website: https://benpiper.com.

Exercise 1.1 Create an AWS Account

Exercise 2.1 Calculate Monthly Costs for an EC2 Instance

Exercise 2.2 Build a Deployment Cost Estimate Using the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

Exercise 2.3 Compare the On-Premises Costs of Running Your Application with AWS Costs

Exercise 2.4 Create a Cost Budget to Track Spending

Exercise 3.1 Find Out How to Copy Files from One S3 Bucket to Another

Exercise 3.2 Confirm That Your Account Security Settings Are Compliant with Best Practices

Exercise 4.1 Select a Subnet and AZ for an EC2 Instance

Exercise 4.2 Take a Quick Look at the Way CloudFront Distributions Are Configured

Exercise 5.1 Create a Password Policy for Your IAM Users

Exercise 5.2 Create an IAM User and Assign Limited Permissions

Exercise 5.3 Assign Multiple Users to an IAM Group

Exercise 6.1 Install the AWS Command Line Interface

Exercise 7.1 Select an EC2 AMI

Exercise 7.2 Launch an Apache Web Server on an EC2 Instance

Exercise 8.1 Create an S3 Bucket

Exercise 9.1 Create a DynamoDB Table

Exercise 11.1