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Aws exam prep resources

Aws exam prep resources

Videos to Watch

EC2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Wi7V1wLYA

S3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKuL1K3oWuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_vScxbIQLY&t=2556s

VPC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tff1mekxOJ4

DynamoDB

1. AWS re:Invent 2016: Deep Dive on Amazon DynamoDB( Great, great introduction to DynamoDB . watch the first 32 minutes or so) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCW3lhsJKfw

Cloudformation

1. My videos on Cloudformation (Part 1-4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZatpRyftC0&list=PLQP5dDPLts644H-gXjuRFq3k-2AR17UnQ

Lambda

1. My videos on AWS Lambda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FynLOwBgJAU&list=PLQP5dDPLts66-JF3tIV5m3Uaw2wAdQLK8

Identity and access Management

1. AWS re:Invent 2016: Become an AWS IAM Policy Ninja in 60 Minutes or Less ( great video!! One of my favorites re:invent talks) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7-fAT3z8Lo&t=1612s

Cloudwatch

1. Cloudwatch vs Cloudtrail in 15 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRCS820Tr8c

2. AWS Lab: Monitor Memory Utilization on EC2 instances with Cloudwatch Custom metrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgRt3kiNt_Q

Cloudtrail

1. AWS Cloudtrail vs Cloudwatch in 15 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRCS820Tr8c

AWS Command Line Interface

1. AWS Command Line Interface(AWS CLI) playlist(~13 videos) by Saurav Sharma: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQP5dDPLts67DnDIb2IvXd6qPFbLabDCO

Route 53 and DNS

1. AWS re:Invent 2016: DNS Demystified: Amazon Route 53: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAq-DDbFiIE

AWS Fundamentals

1. AWS Fundamentals videos playlist by Saurav Sharma https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQP5dDPLts66eWDopxxCRjbu6QemVYhSC

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Other Resources: AWS Frequently asked questions:

https://aws.amazon.com/faqs/

For all kinds of AWS updates:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/

For quick 10-minute lessons:

https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tutorials/

Mini Videos on Real life Architectures of companies using AWS. This Is My Architecture Series:

https://aws.amazon.com/this-is-my-architecture/

Do a lot of labs. Labs steps and code from official AWS Github pages:

https://github.com/awslabs/

Documentation of All the services:

https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/?nc2=h_ql_d&awsm=ql-5

Reinvent Videos: Free 1 hour videos from AWS experts working on Amazon. This is from a conference that happens every year in Las Vegas and 40000 people attend. Walkthroughs, In depth sessions. There are 200, 300, 400 level videos. 1000 videos uploaded every year:

https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=27

Read the frequently asked questions for all the major services. Then read the FAQ’s on services that confuse you the most:

https://aws.amazon.com/faqs/

To make great Looking AWS Diagrams cloudcraft.co

Try to read these whitepapers before the exam ( About 300 Pages in total): (aws.amazon.com/whitepapers)

(44 Pages +30 pages of questions and best practices ) AWS Well-Architected Framework, November 2016 : https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS_Well-Architected_Framework.pdf

(36 pages) AWS Well-Architected Framework - Security Pillar, May 2017 : https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Security-Pillar.pdf

(49 Pages ) AWS Well-Architected Framework - Reliability Pillar, November 2016 : https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Reliability-Pillar.pdf

(45 Pages) AWS Well-Architected Framework - Performance Efficiency Pillar, November 2016 : https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Performance-Efficiency-Pillar.pdf

(35 Pages) AWS Well-Architected Framework - Cost Optimization Pillar, November 2016 : https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Cost-Optimization-Pillar.pdf

Questions? Open an Issue in this repo

aws-exam-prep's Issues

What is the difference between NAT Instance and NAT Gateway?

Scenario Questions about instances and AZ's

1. An application is in us-west-2, --requires 6 instances running all time,
   (Using 3AZ in a region, which provides 100% fault tolerance if any single AZ is unavailable?)
   Ans: a)us-west-2a=6 instance; us-wet-2b=6instance; 2c=0 instance (PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY?)OR
   b}us-west-2a=3 instance; 2b=3 instance; 2c=3 instance (PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY?)
2. If you have 4 instances (best option for fault tolerance and high availability)
   Ans: Deploy 2 instance in each of 3AZ, add ELB and Autoscaling group to Launch more instance. (PLEASE EXPLAIN -Why should I deploy 2 instances in 3AZ?)

What's the most challenging topic on AWS for you? What questions do you have about that topic?

Creating A Stack From CLI

Good Morning Saurav,

Question: How can we create a stack in from the CLI for cloudformation if we typing everything from scratch without knowing the parameters? We did everything from scratch in class from the AWS console where we could choose the ImageID, instancetype, subnetID, vpcID, etc. If we are using the CLI option how do we know what to attached and link to what in the script?

Test question

What's the difference between kinesis firehose and Kinesis stream?