Key AWS exam topics: What are the main topics on the AWS exam?

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What are the topics/services to study for AWS certification?

The AWS certification is determined towards guaranteed that an individual would be having the technical expertise in managing, deploying and ensuring smooth delivery of operations on the AWS platform. Below mentioned are the topics as well as distribution for the certification.

Topic	Distribution
Monitoring and Metrics	15%
High Availability	15%
Analysis	15%
Development and Provisioning	15%
Data Management	12%
Security	15%
Networking	13%

The key sub-topics that would be required to focus on each topic are given below

Metrics and Monitoring 

In the metrics and monitoring, Cloudwatch alarms are considered to be a key learning topic. One would be required to understand the details about creating and managing cloudwatch alarms both through the console as well as via the CLI. Also, one would be required for understanding, all the details about adding custom metrics to cloudwatch. EC2, RDS, Elastic Load balancer and Elasticache are some of the key aspects of understanding the monitoring for performance and availability which would be based on the available metrics available for each AWS service. 

High Availability There would be multiple ways for ensuring high availability for services in AWS. One would be required to understand the numerous options which would be available such as

• Multi-AZ option for databases:

This option would be allowing one to have secondary failover databases available. So in case of a failover, one could easily failover for the secondary database.

• Multiple Availability Zones and Regions:

This option of EC2 instances in multiple Availability zones as well as ensuring AMI’s would be available in other regions for failover.

• Elastic IP:

This IP’s could be utilized to failover EC2 instances for secondary instances. One would require ensuring that each option on high availability would be studied and explored in detail. 

Analysis

The Analysis topics are focused on functioning on issues that are encountered in the AWS services. Some of the ordinary subtopics for focus are:

• Understanding bottlenecks in the network
• Troubleshooting EC2 and Elastic Load balancing issue.
• EBS Volumes – Resizing, Initializing volumes

Provisioning and Deployment: 

A key aspect of this topic is considered to be a deep understanding of the Cloudformation service as well as an overall understanding of the Opswork service. You would be looking at the feature of making stacks in Opswork and also looking frontward to the key elements of a Cloudformation service. 

Security:

The Shared responsibility model is believed to be an important aspect wherein one would be required to understand the responsibility of AWS and that of the clients. Next, the following aspects would be required to understand in greater detail and how these security aspects could be utilized across the numerous services in AWS like, EC2, SQS, SNS and RDS. 

Data Management

• One would also require obtaining knowledge on key aspects as EBS snapshots which could be utilized for taking care of EBS volumes.
• Next, RDS would be also expected of automated backup which could be utilized to refurbish databases at any point in time.
• All aspects would be related to disaster recovery utilizing the above the key aspects which would be required to understand in great detail.

Networking

One of the backbones of the AWS offering is considered as the entire network feature of AWS. The core service is the VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) where one would be hosting the various resources utilizing subnets. So, now you have gained the topics in the AWS Exam. If you should acquire the study dumps which are being offered at the SPOTO Club.