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Docs for preparation for taking AWS DevOps Professional Exam

AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Preparation Guide

⚠️ This preparation guide is based on my studies taking courses from A Cloud Guru, Linux Academy and some videos at Safari Online (O'Reilly). ️⚠️

About the exam

• Multiple choice and multiple-answer questions
• 170 minutes to complete the exam
• Exam registration fee is USD 300

Domain	% of examination
1: Continuous Delivery and Process Automation	55%
2: Monitoring, Metrics and Logging	20%
3: Security, Governance and Validation	10%
4: High Availability and Elasticity	15%

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About the guide

This guide will take you through the main concepts and topics to pass the exam.

Feel free to contribute (translating, adding more content or fixing typos)! :)

Index

0. Concepts

• CI / CD
• Deployment Types
• A/B Testing
• Bootstrapping
• Immutable Infrastructure
• Containers

1. Continuous Delivery and Process Automation

• CloudFormation
  • What's CloudFormation?
  • CloudFormation Structure
  • Stack Creation
  • Stack Updates
  • Resource Deletion Policies
  • Nesting
  • Wait Conditions and Handlers (to review)
  • Custom Resources (to review)
• OpsWorks
  • What's OpsWorks
  • Structure
  • Stacks and Layers
  • Lifecycle Events
  • Instances
  • Applications
  • create-deployment command
  • Berkshelf and Databags
  • Auto-healing
• Elastic Beanstalk
  • What's Elastic Beanstalk
  • Components
  • Extending Elastic Beanstalk with ebextensions
  • Docker

2. Monitoring, Metrics and Logging

• CloudWatch

  • What's CloudWatch
  • Custom Metrics
  • CloudWatch Alarms
  • CloudWatch Logs
  • CloudWatch Filters
  • CloudWatch Events

• CloudTrail

3. Security, Governance and Validation

• Delegation and Federation
  • Corporate Identity Federation
  • Web Identity Federation

4. HA and Elasticity

5. Operations

6. Additional tips and links

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