Week 4: Monitoring and Optimizing Solutions on AWS

INTRODUCTION This Week Four, witness the exploration of monitoring benefits in AWS with scenarios on how to optimize the various solutions within the whole ecosystem of AWs. You will also explore the details of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and the differences between vertical and horizontal scaling. Learning objectives: Define benefits of monitoring on AWS Explain … Read more

Week 1: Coursera AWS Fundamentals Specialization

INTRODUCTION We shall cover the fundamental concepts of “least privilege” and the “Shared Responsibility Model.” Learn also about the AWS compliance programs and secure AWS accounts through AWS IAM. WEEK 1 QUIZ 1 1. What security mechanism can add an extra layer of protection to your AWS account in addition to a username password combination? … Read more

Week 2: Coursera AWS Fundamentals Specialization

INTRODUCTION The first thing we will set our sights on is securing your infrastructure, which will begin with network isolation and endpoint security,, while moving on to detective controls, namely, Amazon CloudTrail, AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, and AWS Config. WEEK 2 QUIZ 1 1. Which statement is true? You can only attach 1 elastic … Read more

Week 4: Coursera AWS Fundamentals Specialization

INTRODUCTION We will start with securing compute resources such as Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda, manage secrets, and finally summarize the AWS Well-Architected Framework. WEEK 4 QUIZ 1. W​hich of the following are valid Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework? Choose two. Infrastructure Redundancy Speed Security (CORRECT) Cost Optimization (CORRECT) 2. W​hat language does Amazon Athena support? ​SQL (CORRECT) … Read more

Week 1: Coursera AWS Fundamentals Specialization

INTRODUCTION Migration: The first week of this course, which forms a short introduction to the concept before delving into some background reading material, also presents the outline of the rest of the course. Then you get to learn why migration is an important subject, the different types of migration, and the three-phase migration structure. You … Read more

Week 1: Introducing Amazon Web Series (AWS)

INTRODUCTION The AWS Cloud Technical Essentials Week 1 is all about the introduction of core terms regarding cloud computing and its value proposition. On this program, you will see the differences between workloads in the cloud and those on-premises, learn how to create an AWS account, and view, among other things, an overview of Amazon … Read more

COURSE 3 – MIGRATING TO THE CLOUD QUIZ ANSWERS

INTRODUCTION Assess your current infrastructure to plan for migration in a proper way. Tools like AWS Migration Evaluator and AWS Migration Hub help with collecting information about your on-prem environment and aligning with appropriate AWS services. It is also necessary for you to talk with everyone in your organization to take organizational business needs into … Read more