Cybrary | AWS Cloud Practitioner

Guide: Nicolas Moy



Date:- 5th-September-2019

CLF-C01 Exam Guide

Four Domains In Exam

1. Cloud Concepts
2. Security
3. Technology
4. Billing & Pricing


Lecture 1:- AWS Cloud Computing Concepts

What is cloud computing?

In simple terms cloud computing is online renting service, that allows us to use the virtual servers, database on the cloud and follows the pay as per use concept.

Major cloud computing providers :

1. AWS
2. GCP [ Google Cloud Platform]
3. Digital Ocean
4. Microsoft Azure

Advantages :

1. Pay as per use concept
2. Highly scalable, we can increase or decrease the server according to our need
3. World Wide Access Capability
4. Increasing Speed
5. Develop a Global Infrastructure

Lecture 2:- Cloud Models & Deployments


Different types of cloud computing models

1. IaaS [ Infrastructure as a Service ]

Provides the ability to manage the server on your own.

2. PaaS [ Platform as a Service ]

Someone else is responsible for managing the server. U only to worry about the application
Leave the worries abt patching, security, etc.

3. SaaS [ Software as a Service ]

Only we need to manage is our data.
Example:- Dropbox, Google Drive

Different types of cloud computing deployments

1. Public Cloud

AWS,GCP,Azure

2. Hybrid Cloud
Mixture of public and private cloud

3. Private Cloud
Vmware or OpenStack



Lecture 3: AWS Global Infrastructure

June 2019

21 Regions
66 Availability Zones

What is Availability Zones (AZ)?

• AZ is datacenter
• AZ consists of servers, databases, networking, etc.

What is Region?

• It is a geographical area which consists of two or more availability zone.

What is EdgeLocation?

• Used for the purpose of caching the contents

Lecture 4: Shared Responsibility Model

• AWS manages the security of the cloud
• Customer managers the security in the cloud

Lecture 5:  AWS Services

AWS Inspector

Find out the vulnerabilities in the virtual server.

AWS CloudTrail

Used for the purpose of logs monitoring for the users.

AWS WAF

Managed web application firewall provided by AWS.

AWS Shield

Used to prevent the application from DDoS attacks.

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AWS Practicals Lecture

Lecture 1: Creation of AWS Account

Basically, there are three types of support plan provided by AWS:

1. Basic Plan

2. Developer Plan  ( $29 / month )

3. Business Plan     ( $ 100 / month )

Lecture 2: Creating a billing alarm

2.1 Go the profile option in the AWS

2.2 Click on my billing dashboard

2.3 Then go to preferences

2.4 Configure for the billing alerts using cloud watch.

Lecture 3: IAM Lab

IAM stands for Identity & Access Management.

Used for the purpose of including granularity in the access management of the various services as well as users in AWS.

Basic attributes of IAM includes :

1. Users

2. Groups

3. Policies

4. Roles


8th September 2019


Finally completed this course in Cybrary.