AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Study Guide, 3rd Edition

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Study Guide, 3rd Edition

by Jorge T. Negron, Christoffer Jones, George Sawyer
Released May 2024
Publisher(s): Sybex
ISBN: 9781119813101

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Book description

Prepare for success on the AWS SysOps exam, your next job interview, and in the field with this handy and practical guide 

The newly updated Third Edition of AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Study Guide: Associate (SOA-C02) Exam prepares you for the Amazon Web Services SysOps Administrator certification and a career in the deployment, management, and operation of an AWS environment. 

Whether you’re preparing for your first attempt at the challenging SOA-C02 Exam, or you want to upgrade your AWS SysOps skills, this practical Study Guide delivers the hands-on skills and best practices instruction you need to succeed on the test and in the field. You’ll get: 

  • Coverage of all of the SOA-C02 exam’s domains, including monitoring, logging, remediation, reliability, business continuity, and more 
  • Instruction that’s tailor-made to achieve success on the certification exam, in an AWS SysOps job interview, and in your next role as a SysOps administrator 
  • Access to the Sybex online study tools, with chapter review questions, full-length practice exams, hundreds of electronic flashcards, and a glossary of key terms 

The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Study Guide: Associate (SOA-C02) Exam includes all the digital and offline tools you need to supercharge your career as an AWS Certified SysOps Administrator. 

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. About the Authors
  8. About the Technical Editor
  9. Introduction
    1. What Does This Book Cover?
    2. Interactive Online Learning Environment and Test Bank
    3. Exam Objectives
    4. Objective Map
    5. How to Contact the Publisher
    6. Assessment Test
    7. Answers to Assessment Test
  10. Chapter 1: AWS Fundamentals
    1. Getting Started 1
    2. The AWS Shared Responsibility Model
    3. General Root Account Best Practices
    4. The AWS Global Infrastructure
    5. The AWS Command-Line Interface
    6. The AWS Health API and Dashboards
    7. Pricing
    8. Summary
    9. Exam Essentials
    10. Hands-On Exercises
    11. Review Questions
  11. Chapter 2: Account Creation, Security, and Compliance
    1. Shared Responsibility
    2. Compliance
    3. IAM
    4. AWS Organizations and Control Tower
    5. AWS Directory Service
    6. AWS License Manager
    7. Summary
    8. Exam Essentials
    9. Review Questions
  12. Chapter 3: AWS Cost Management
    1. AWS Cost and Usage Reports
    2. AWS Cost Explorer
    3. Savings Plans
    4. AWS Budgets
    5. Managing Costs with Managed Services
    6. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances and Cost Optimization
    7. Summary
    8. Exam Essentials
    9. Review Questions
  13. Chapter 4: Automated Security Services and Compliance
    1. Review Reports, Findings, and Checks
    2. Data Protection Strategies
    3. Network Protection Strategies
    4. Summary
    5. Exam Essentials
    6. Review Questions
  14. Chapter 5: Compute
    1. The Hypervisor
    2. Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
    3. Amazon EC2
    4. Amazon EC2 Image Builder
    5. Compute Optimizer
    6. Elastic Load Balancing
    7. Auto Scaling
    8. AWS Application Auto Scaling
    9. AWS Lambda
    10. Summary
    11. Exam Essentials
    12. Review Questions
  15. Chapter 6: Storage, Migration, and Transfer
    1. Storage vs. Migration
    2. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
    3. Amazon S3 Glacier
    4. Amazon Elastic Block Store
    5. Amazon Elastic File System
    6. Amazon FSx
    7. Migration and Transfer
    8. AWS Backup
    9. AWS Storage Gateway
    10. AWS DataSync
    11. AWS Transfer Family
    12. Summary
    13. Exam Essentials
    14. Review Questions
  16. Chapter 7: Databases
    1. Amazon Relational Database Service
    2. Amazon ElastiCache
    3. Summary
    4. Exam Essentials
    5. Review Questions
  17. Chapter 8: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation
    1. Amazon CloudWatch
    2. Monitoring on AWS
    3. Basic CloudWatch Terms and Concepts
    4. Monitoring Compute
    5. Monitoring Storage
    6. CloudWatch Alarms
    7. CloudWatch Events
    8. Exercises
    9. AWS CloudTrail
    10. API Logs Are Trails of Data
    11. CloudTrail as a Monitoring Tool
    12. Exercises
    13. AWS Config
    14. AWS Systems Manager
    15. Exercises
    16. Summary
    17. Exam Essentials
    18. Review Questions
  18. Chapter 9: Networking
    1. Networking
    2. Troubleshooting
    3. VPC IP Address Manager
    4. Hubs, Spokes, and Bastion Hosts
    5. Connecting to the Internet
    6. Connecting to Networks and Services
    7. VPC Peering
    8. Bastion Hosts
    9. Monitoring VPC Traffic
    10. AWS Client VPN
    11. VPC Endpoints
    12. AWS Transit Gateway
    13. Cloud WAN
    14. Summary
    15. Exam Essentials
    16. Review Questions
  19. Chapter 10: Content Delivery
    1. Domain Name System
    2. Amazon Route 53
    3. Route 53 Health Checks
    4. Routing Policies
    5. Route 53 Traffic Flow
    6. Route 53 Guided Exercise
    7. Amazon CloudFront
    8. Edge Locations
    9. The CloudFront Cache Process
    10. Restricting Access to S3 (OAI vs. OAC)
    11. CloudFront Functions
    12. CloudFront Guided Exercise
    13. AWS Global Accelerator
    14. Pricing
    15. Summary
    16. Exam Essentials
    17. Review Questions
  20. Chapter 11: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation
    1. Elastic Beanstalk
    2. Elastic Beanstalk Extensions
    3. AWS CloudFormation
    4. Amazon SQS
    5. Amazon SNS
    6. Amazon Kinesis Services
    7. Step Functions
    8. Summary
    9. Exam Essentials
    10. Review Questions
  21. Appendix: Answers to Review Questions
  22. Index
  23. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Study Guide, 3rd Edition
  • Author(s): Jorge T. Negron, Christoffer Jones, George Sawyer
  • Release date: May 2024
  • Publisher(s): Sybex
  • ISBN: 9781119813101