Amazon AWS Practice Exam
Amazon AWS Practice Exam
About Amazon AWS Exam
The Amazon AWS Exam validates your expertise in deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems using Amazon Web Services (AWS). It covers core services like EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and IAM while emphasizing security, cost optimization, and cloud-native architecture. This exam ensures you’re capable of designing and maintaining AWS-powered infrastructure aligned with best practices.
Who should take the Exam?
This exam is ideal for:
- IT professionals and system administrators transitioning to cloud environments
- Developers building scalable applications on AWS
- Cloud architects designing cost-effective, secure AWS solutions
- DevOps engineers automating infrastructure deployment and monitoring
- Students and professionals seeking AWS certifications (Foundational to Associate level)
Skills Required
- Basic knowledge of cloud computing concepts and models
- Familiarity with AWS core services like EC2, S3, IAM, and Lambda
- Understanding of networking, security, and virtualization
- Ability to interpret AWS billing, pricing, and architecture diagrams
Knowledge Gained
- Designing and deploying applications on AWS infrastructure
- Managing IAM policies, roles, and users for secure access control
- Setting up scalable and resilient cloud environments using EC2 and Auto Scaling
- Deploying serverless applications with Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB
- Monitoring resources using CloudWatch and optimizing costs using pricing tools
Course Outline
The Amazon AWS Exam covers the following topics -
Domain 1 – Cloud Concepts and AWS Overview
- Introduction to cloud computing and AWS global infrastructure
- Benefits of cloud adoption: elasticity, agility, and pay-as-you-go pricing
- Understanding AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
Domain 2 – Core AWS Services
- Launching and configuring EC2 instances
- Using S3 for object storage and lifecycle management
- Overview of RDS, DynamoDB, and database choices
- Introduction to AWS Lambda and serverless computing
Domain 3 – Security and Identity
- Understanding IAM users, groups, roles, and policies
- Securing data with KMS, CloudTrail, and encryption options
- Network security: VPC, security groups, NACLs
Domain 4 – Networking and Content Delivery
- Basics of VPC, subnets, route tables, and internet gateways
- Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and Auto Scaling
- Using CloudFront and Route 53 for content delivery and DNS
Domain 5 – Monitoring and Cost Management
- Monitoring infrastructure with CloudWatch and CloudTrail
- Analyzing logs and setting up alarms
- Understanding billing, pricing calculators, and budgets
Domain 6 – Deployment and Automation
- Introduction to AWS CLI and SDKs
- Using CloudFormation for infrastructure as code
- Deploying applications with Elastic Beanstalk and CodeDeploy
