AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide: Your one-stop solution to passing the AWS developer's certification - Softcover

Tankariya, Vipul; Parmar, Bhavin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1787125629 ISBN 13: 9781787125629

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

An effective guide to becoming an AWS Certified Developer

About This Book

• This fast-paced guide will help you clear the exam with confidence
• Learn to design, develop, and deploy cloud-based solutions using AWS
• Enhance your AWS skills with practice questions and mock tests

Who This Book Is For

This book is for IT professionals and developers looking to clear the AWS Certified Developer Associate 2017 exam. Developers looking to develop and manage their applications on the AWS platform will also find this book useful. No prior AWS experience is needed.

What You Will Learn

• Create and manage users, groups, and permissions using AWS Identity and Access Management services
• Create a secured Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with Public and Private Subnets, Network Access Control, and Security groups
• Get started with Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), launching your first EC2 instance, and working with it
• Handle application traffic with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and monitor AWS resources with CloudWatch
• Work with AWS storage services such as Simple Storage Service (S3), Glacier, and CloudFront
• Get acquainted with AWS DynamoDB a NoSQL database service
• Coordinate work across distributed application components using Simple Workflow Service (SWF)

In Detail

AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide starts with a quick introduction to AWS and the prerequisites to get you started. Then, this book gives you a fair understanding of core AWS services and basic architecture. Next, this book will describe about getting familiar with Identity and Access Management (IAM) along with Virtual private cloud (VPC). Moving ahead you will learn about Elastic Compute cloud (EC2) and handling application traffic with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). Going ahead you we will talk about Monitoring with CloudWatch, Simple storage service (S3) and Glacier and CloudFront along with other AWS storage options. Next we will take you through AWS DynamoDB A NoSQL Database Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and CloudFormation Overview. Finally, this book covers understanding Elastic Beanstalk and overview of AWS lambda.

At the end of this book, we will cover enough topics, tips and tricks along with mock tests for you to be able to pass the AWS Certified Developer - Associate exam and develop as well as manage your applications on the AWS platform.

Style and approach

This step-by-step guide includes exercises and mock tests to clear the AWS certification exam and become a successful AWS developer.

Table of Contents

1. Overview of AWS Certified Developer - Associate Certification
2. Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS
3. Getting Familiar with Identity and Access Management
4. Virtual Private Cloud
5. Getting Started with Elastic Compute Cloud
6. Handling Application Traffic with Elastic Load Balancing
7. Monitoring with CloudWatch
8. Simple Storage Service, Glacier, and CloudFront
9. Other AWS Storage Options
10. AWS Relation Database Services
11. AWS DynamoDB - A NoSQL Database Service
12. Amazon Simple Queue Service
13. Simple Notification Service
14. Simple Workflow Service
15. AWS CloudFormation
16. Elastic Beanstalk
17. Overview of AWS Lambda
18. Mock Tests

About this title

About the Author

Vipul Tankariya comes with a very broad experience in cloud consulting, development, and training. He has worked with a number of customers across the globe for solving real-life business problems in terms of technology and strategy. He is also a public speaker in various AWS events and meetups. He has not only extensively worked on AWS, but is also certified in five AWS certifications:

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
• AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional
• AWS Certified Developer - Associate
• AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

This book combines his AWS experience in solving real-life business problems along with his hands-on development experience in various programming languages. Vipul is an accomplished senior cloud consultant and technologist focused on strategic thought leadership concentrated around next generation cloud-based solutions with more than 21 years of experience.

He has been involved in conceptualizing, designing, and implementing large-scale cloud solutions on a variety of public/private/hybrid Clouds. He has also been instrumental in setting up cloud migration strategies for customers, building enterprise-class cloud solutions, Go-To market collateral, and AWS training as well as cloud presales activities.

Vipul has a wide range of experience working on DevOps, CI/CD, and automation at each level of the delivery life cycle of products, solutions, and services on the cloud as well as on-premises.

Bhavin Parmar comes with a very broad experience in cloud consulting, development, training. He has an active participation in solving real-life business problems. Bhavin has not only extensively worked on AWS, but he is also certified in AWS and Red Hat:

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
• AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional
• AWS Certified Developer - Associate
• AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
• Red Hat Certified Architect

This book combines his AWS experience in solving real-life business problems along with his hands-on deployment and development experience. Bhavin is an accomplished technologist and senior cloud consultant and focused on strategic thought leadership concentrated around next generation cloud-based & DevOps solutions with more than 11 years of experience.

He has been involved in conceptualizing, designing, and implementing large-scale cloud solutions on a variety of public/private/hybrid Clouds. Bhavin has also been instrumental in setting up cloud migration strategies for customers, building enterprise-class cloud solutions, Go-To Market collateral, and AWS training as well as Cloud pre-sales activities.

He has a wide range of experience working at each level of the Delivery Life Cycle of products, solutions, and services on the Cloud as well as on-premises.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1787125629
• ISBN 13: 9781787125629
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 600