AWS CloudFormation Essentials Practice Exam
AWS CloudFormation Essentials Practice Exam
About AWS CloudFormation Essentials Exam
The AWS CloudFormation Essentials exam is designed to evaluate your proficiency in utilizing AWS CloudFormation, an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) service that automates the deployment, management, and provisioning of AWS resources. This certification validates your ability to design, deploy, and manage complex cloud architectures using CloudFormation templates, which define the configuration and relationships of various AWS resources in a declarative format. With CloudFormation, users can automate the entire lifecycle of their infrastructure, from creation and updates to deletion, all while ensuring consistency and reducing the likelihood of errors.
Knowledge Evaluated
Throughout the exam, you will be tested on your understanding of creating and managing CloudFormation templates written in JSON or YAML, as well as your ability to provision AWS resources such as EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPCs, Lambda functions, and databases like RDS. You will also be evaluated on your skills in parameterization, stack updates, and integration with other AWS services.
Skills Required
- Ability to create and manage JSON or YAML templates that define AWS resources and their configurations.
- Experience in provisioning AWS resources such as EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and RDS databases using CloudFormation.
- Proficiency in creating, updating, and deleting CloudFormation stacks to manage the lifecycle of AWS resources.
- Knowledge of using parameters to customize templates and outputs to retrieve information about stack resources.
- Understanding of how to preview changes to AWS resources before applying them using change sets.
- Ability to deploy CloudFormation stacks across multiple AWS accounts and regions using StackSets.
Who should take the Exam?
This exam is intended for individuals who have experience designing and deploying AWS CloudFormation templates. It is particularly beneficial for:
- Solutions Architects
- DevOps Engineers
- Cloud Developers
- System Administrators
Course Outline
The AWS CloudFormation Essentials Exam covers the following topics -
Domain 1 - AWS CloudFormation Basics
- Understanding the Need for CloudFormation and the Benefits of AWS CloudFormation
- Overview of CloudFormation Template Structure
- Walkthrough of a Sample CloudFormation Template
- Managing CloudFormation Stack Updates and Change Sets
- Working with Nested CloudFormation Stacks
- Exploring CloudFormation StackSets
- Planning Your CloudFormation Stacks Effectively
- CloudFormation Best Practices for Efficient Management
Domain 2 - AWS CloudFormation Demo
- Introduction to AWS CloudFormation Demo
- Hands-On AWS CloudFormation Demonstration
- Performing AWS CloudFormation Stack Updates
- Using AWS CloudFormation Drift Detection
Domain 3 - AWS CloudFormation Challenge Puzzles
- Introduction to AWS CloudFormation Challenge Puzzles
