Table Of ContentAWS Certified
Cloud Practitioner
Exam Guide
Build your cloud computing knowledge and
build your skills as an AWS Certified Cloud
Practitioner (CLF-C01)
Rajesh Daswani
BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide
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To my mother, Vandana, and to the memory of my father, Devkrishin,
for their sacrifices and for exemplifying the power of determination.
To my beautiful wife, Divya, for being my loving partner and anchor
always. And to my amazing daughter, Ryka, for showing me how simplicity
is the key to creativity.
– Rajesh Daswani
Contributors
About the author
Rajesh Daswani is a senior solutions architect with over 20 years' experience in IT
infrastructure services and cloud computing. His work has been focused on both AWS
and Microsoft 365 platforms. He has delivered cloud computing training on AWS as a
corporate trainer for several clients globally.
Rajesh has helped thousands of IT professionals to appreciate real-world applications
of cloud technologies and become better equipped to facilitate clients' adoption of
cloud technologies.
When Rajesh is not immersed in the world of cloud computing, he can be caught
watching re-runs of his favorite Star Trek shows (TNG). He also likes to be known as a
food connoisseur, conjuring up his own mix of fusion dishes for his family and friends.
I would like to thank the team at Packt Publishing, especially Neil D'mello
and Nihar Kapadia, for guidance and support in making this study guide a
reality. I would also like to thank Renato Martins, for providing a technical
review of this study guide.
About the reviewer
Renato Martins has been working in IT since 1997, having worked directly for, or
consulted on behalf of, small start-ups, government agencies, and large multinationals
in four countries. As a trainer, he has delivered hundreds of classes and a few dozen
lectures on all topics, from development to databases, operating systems, and cloud
computing in all flavors.
He has been approved in more than 200 certification exams, including AWS, Microsoft,
PMI, Red Hat, Sun, and IBM, among others.
When not working, he loves to be with his family, enjoying museums and concerts, and
likes to travel across the globe in whatever spare time he has.
Passionate about the fast-paced, constantly changing landscape of technology, he is always
on the lookout for the next new thing, eager to learn and share it.
I'd like to thank my lovely wife, Sandra, and our incredible children, Theo
and Laís, for their support, knowing I might become absent at any time as a
result of diving into a big project, studying for the next exam, or delivering
a class. Thanks for knowing that after, I am there to have the best moments
of our lives together.
Thanks for the relaxing moments, for all the laughs and cuddles.
A big thank you also to my dog, Ted, who makes sure I am awake every day
at 6 A.M. for a walk!
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Cloud Concepts
1
What Is Cloud Computing?
What is cloud computing? 4 SaaS 12
The six advantages of cloud computing 5
Understanding cloud
Exploring the basics of deployment models 13
virtualization 8 Public cloud 14
Exploring cloud computing Private cloud 14
models 11 Hybrid cloud 15
Infrastructure as a Service 11 Summary 15
Platform as a Service 11
Questions 16
2
Introduction to AWS and the Global Infrastructure
What is AWS? 20 Global services 28
A quick history of AWS 20 On-premises services 29
Exploring the AWS Global Choosing the right AWS support
Infrastructure 21 plan for your business 31
Regions 22 Basic support plan 31
AZs 23 Developer support plan 32
Edge Locations 25 Business support plan 32
Regional edge caches 26 Enterprise support plan 33
Regional services 27
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Overview of the AWS Service Summary 37
Health Dashboard 35 Questions 38
The AWS AuP 37
3
Exploring AWS Accounts, Multi-Account Strategy, and AWS
Organizations
Why have a multi-account AWS AWS Free Tier accounts 52
environment? 44
Free tools 52
AWS Landing Zone 46 Always free services (limited offering) 53
AWS Control Tower 46 Free trials 53
Managing multiple accounts – AWS Exercise 3.1 – Setting up your
Organizations 47
first AWS Free Tier account 54
Introducing AWS Organizations 47
Exercise 3.2 – Setting up a
Consolidated billing 48
billing alarm 64
How many AWS accounts do you need? 49
Questions 72
Core AWS OUs 50
Additional OUs 50
Section 2: AWS Technologies
4
Identity and Access Management
Introduction to the AWS IAM Key differences between IAM
service 78 users and IAM groups 85
The AWS IAM console 78 IAM users 85
The AWS IAM services 79 IAM groups 86
The root user account and Defining permissions with IAM
implementing Multi-Factor policies 86
Authentication (MFA) 81
Types of identity-based policies 89
Setting up MFA 81 Example of an IAM policy 89
Assigning temporary credentials with
The importance of defining IAM
IAM roles 94
password policies 84
Temporary credentials 95
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Reviewing credential reports 96 Downloading the CLI tools 103
Exercise 4.1 – creating an
Exercise 4.4 – accessing the
IAM group 96
AWS platform using the AWS
Exercise 4.2 – creating an CLI on a Windows computer 104
IAM user 97
Exercise 4.5 – creating an
Exercise 4.3 – logging in to your IAM user with administrative
AWS account as an IAM user 99 privileges 105
Accessing the AWS platform Summary 107
using the CLI 101
Questions 108
Accessing your account via the CLI 102
5
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Technical requirements 112 Connecting your on-premises
Introduction to storage storage to AWS with Amazon
options on AWS 112 Storage Gateway 136
Migrating large datasets
Block storage 113
to AWS with the AWS
File storage 113
Snow Family 138
Object storage 114
AWS Snowball 138
Introduction to Amazon S3 115
Amazon Snowcone 139
Buckets and objects 115 Amazon Snowmobile 139
Managing your objects in a bucket 117
Exercise 5.1 – Setting up an
Regional hosting – global availability 119
Amazon S3 bucket 139
Access permissions 119
Versioning 127 Exercise 5.2 – Configuring
Cross-region and same-region public access to S3 buckets 143
replication 128 Exercise 5.3 – Enabling
S3 encryption 130 versioning on your bucket 146
Static website hosting 131
Exercise 5.4 – Setting up static
Amazon S3TA 133 website hosting 149
Learning about archiving Summary 154
solutions with Amazon S3 Questions 154
Glacier 134
