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Certificate in Amazon EBS [Elastic Block Store]

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Amazon EBS [Elastic Block Store]


About Amazon EBS [Elastic Block Store]

For use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is a high-performance, scalable, and user-friendly block-storage solution (Amazon EC2).

You can consolidate and automate data protection for all AWS services with AWS Backup. The cost-effective, fully managed, policy-based solution provided by AWS Backup makes data protection at scale simple. AWS Backup enables you to accomplish your objectives for business continuity while supporting your duties for regulatory compliance.

Why is Amazon EBS [Elastic Block Store] important?

  • Move mid-range SAN (storage area network) workloads from on-premises to the cloud. Attach block storage with high performance and availability for mission-critical applications.
  • Your preferred databases, such as SAP HANA, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Cassandra, and MongoDB, can be deployed and scaled.
  • Detach and reattach volumes at will, and easily scale clusters for big data analytics engines like Hadoop and Spark.

Who should take the Amazon EBS [Elastic Block Store] Exam?

  • SDE 2
  • Systems Engineer
  • Senior Product Manager
  • Software Engineer
  • Software Development Engineer
  • Those with 2+ years of professional software development experience


Amazon EBS [Elastic Block Store] Certification Course Outline

  1. Overview of EBS
  2. Create an on-demand backup job of an Amazon EBS volume
  3. Use a backup plan to backup Amazon EBS resources - using a backup plan within AWS Backup lets you automate your backups on a schedule
  4. Add resources to an existing backup plan using tags

Certificate in Amazon EBS [Elastic Block Store] FAQs

You can directly go to the certification exam page and register for the exam.

You will be required to re-register and appear for the exam. There is no limit on exam retake.

There will be 50 questions of 1 mark each

No there is no negative marking

You have to score 25/50 to pass the exam.

The result will be declared immediately on submission.

It will be a computer-based exam. The exam can be taken from anywhere around the world.