AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Certification Guide

The AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Certification Guide is highly challenging and can significantly boost one's career. It features scenario-based questions with lengthy descriptions, making comprehension tough. This book focuses extensively on AWS Developer Tools, CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWorks, and other crucial topics, representing the exam's domain.

The readers can easily prepare for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam with this guide drafted with a focus on managing infrastructure and applications on AWS. It covers secure version control with CodeCommit, automated code building with CodeBuild, and streamlined updates with CodeDeploy and CodePipeline. You will learn to create secure CI/CD pipelines and define AWS infrastructure and applications with CloudFormation. The readers will explore the management of multiple AWS accounts, security tools, and automation with OpsWorks and Elastic Beanstalk. You will also discover strategies for scalability, disaster recovery, monitoring with CloudWatch, and performance analysis with Kinesis Data Streams. Finally, you will learn to implement automated responses and security best practices with AWS Config and Inspector.

Successfully passing this exam will help you gain advanced technical skills needed to become a DevOps subject matter expert and earn a good remuneration in the IT industry.

KEY FEATURES  

• This book offers real-world and hands-on examples that will prepare you to take the exam with confidence.
• Enhance your abilities for efficient interdepartmental communication, fostering cost-effective business solutions.
• Includes mock exams with explanations for self-assessment and boosting confidence.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Set up automated code building, testing, and deployment.
• Automate the configuration and deployment in AWS for efficiency.
• Design infrastructure and applications on AWS that handle high traffic and unexpected situations.
• Gain insights into infrastructure and application performance on AWS with advanced monitoring tools.
• Learn about best practices for securing infrastructure and applications on AWS, like access control, encryption, vulnerability scanning, and incident response procedures.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

This book is ideal for IT professionals, like cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, and system administrators, who want to build and manage secure, scalable websites on AWS. It equips them with the knowledge to become a certified AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional.

1. Continuous Integration with CodeCommit and CodeBuild
2. Continuous Delivery with CodeDeploy and CodePipeline
3. Cross-Account CI/CD Pipelines and Testing
4. Infrastructure as Code Using CloudFormation
5. Automated Account Management and Security in AWS
6. Automation Using OpsWorks and Elastic Beanstalk
7. Implement High Availability, Scalability, and Fault Tolerance
8. Design and Automate Disaster Recovery Strategies
9. Automate Monitoring and Event Management
10. Auditing, Logging and Monitoring Containers and Applications
11. Troubleshooting and Restoring Operations
12. Setup Event-Driven Automated Actions 
13. Implement Governance Strategies and Cost Optimization
14. Advanced Security, Access Control, and Identity Management
15. Mock Exam: 1
16. Mock Exam: 2

With over 20 years of experience in software development and cloud infrastructure, Sumit Kapoor is a Lead DevOps Engineer at Clarivate, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation. Sumit is an AWS Certified Architect, a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), and a skilled practitioner of cloud- native architecture, infrastructure as code (IaC), and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD).

Sumit has a proven track record of delivering consistently on both large-scale and start- up environments, leveraging his expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, and other cutting-edge technologies. Sumit is passionate about enabling and empowering teams to build, deploy, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure applications on the cloud, while optimizing performance, efficiency, and cost. Sumit is always eager to learn new skills, explore new challenges, and contribute to the advancement of the DevOps community.