AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam Short Notes—A study guide

If you are preparing for AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam, this guide will help you with quick revision before the exam. I share the notes I used to study and pass exams.

AWS Cloud Practitioner certification obtained on 2022/09/19 (badge link)

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Each Domain contains a number of sections, and each section contains a number of units. Below Table Link containing information about each section in detail. Please feel free to comment if any information is inaccurate.

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Table of contents

• Cloud Computing

  • What is Cloud Computing?, AWS Global Infrastructure, Shared Responsibility Model

• IAM: Identity Access & Management

  • What Is IAM?, Multi-Factor Authentication — MFA, MFA devices options in AWS, How can users access AWS ?, What’s the AWS CLI?, What’s the AWS SDK?

• EC2: Virtual Machines

  • What is Amazon EC2?, Introduction to Security Groups, Classic Ports to know, EC2 Instance Launch Types, Which purchasing option is right for me?, Shared Responsibility Model for EC2

• EC2 Instance Storage

  • EBS Volumes, EFS: Elastic File System, EFS Infrequent Access (EFS-IA), Amazon FSx — Overview, EC2 Instance Store, Shared Responsibility Model for EC2 Storage

• Elastic Load Balancing & Auto Scaling Groups

  • Scalability & High Availability, Vertical Scalability, Horizontal Scalability, High Availability, High Availability & Scalability For EC2, Scalability vs Elasticity (vs Agility), What is load balancing?, What’s an Auto Scaling Group?

• Amazon S3

  • S3 Use cases, Amazon S3 Overview — Buckets, Amazon S3 Overview — Objects, S3 Websites, S3 Storage Classes, S3 Object Lock & Glacier Vault Lock, Shared Responsibility Model for S3, AWS Snow Family, What is Edge Computing?, Snow Family — Edge Computing, AWS OpsHub, Hybrid Cloud for Storage, AWS Storage Gateway

• Databases & Analytics

  • Databases Intro, Relational Databases, NoSQL Databases, Databases & Shared Responsibility on AWS, AWS RDS Overview, Amazon Aurora, Amazon ElastiCache Overview, DynamoDB, Redshift Overview, Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, Amazon QuickSight, DocumentDB, Amazon Neptune, Amazon QLDB

• Other Compute Section

  • What is Docker?, ECS, Fargate, ECR, What’s serverless?, Why AWS Lambda ?, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Batch, Batch vs Lambda, Amazon Lightsail, Lambda Summary

• Deploying and Managing Infrastructure at Scale

  • What is CloudFormation?, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Developer problems on AWS, Typical architecture: Web App 3-tier, AWS Elastic Beanstalk Overview, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeArtifact, AWS CodeStar, AWS Cloud9, AWS Systems Manager (SSM), AWS OpsWorks

• Global Infrastructure

  • Why make a global application?, Amazon Route 53 Overview, Route 53 Routing Policies, AWS CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, AWS Outposts, AWS WaveLength, AWS Local Zones

• Cloud Integration

  • Amazon SQS — Simple Queue Service, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SNS, Amazon MQ

• Cloud Monitoring

  • Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS X-Ray, Amazon CodeGuru, AWS Status — Service Health Dashboard, AWS Personal Health Dashboard

• VPC

  • VPC & Subnets Primer, Internet Gateway & NAT Gateways, Network ACL & Security Groups, VPC Flow Logs, VPC Peering, VPC Endpoints, Site to Site VPN & Direct Connect, Transit Gateway

• Security & Compliance

  • AWS Shared Responsibility Model, DDOS Protection on AWS, AWS Shield, AWS WAF — Web Application Firewall, AWS KMS (Key Management Service), CloudHSM, AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Artifact (not really a service), Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, AWS Config, Amazon Macie, AWS Security Hub, Amazon Detective, AWS Abuse, Root user privileges

• Machine Learning

  • Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Polly, Amazon Translate, Amazon Lex & Connect, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Forecast, Amazon Kendra, Amazon Personalize, Amazon Textract

• Account Management, Billing & Support

  • AWS Organizations, Multi Account Strategies, Service Control Policies (SCP), AWS Organization — Consolidated Billing, AWS Control Tower, Pricing Models in AWS, Compute Pricing, Storage Pricing, Database Pricing — RDS, Content Delivery — CloudFront, Networking Costs in AWS per GB — Simplified

• Advanced Identity

  • AWS STS (SecurityToken Service), Amazon Cognito (simplified), What is Microsoft Active Directory (AD)?, AWS Single Sign-On (SSO)

• Other AWS Services

  • Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon Sumerian, AWS IoT Core, Amazon Elastic Transcoder, AWS Device Farm, AWS Backup, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS), AWS DataSync, AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)

• AWS Architecting & Ecosystem

  • Well-Architected Framework General Guiding Principles, AWS Cloud Best Practices — Design Principles, Well-Architected Framework 6 Pillars, AWS Well-Architected Tool, AWS Right-Sizing, AWS Ecosystem — Free resources, AWS Marketplace

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