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1. First Principles of Cloud Operations
The services covered in this exam — CloudWatch, Systems Manager, CloudFormation, IAM — aren't arbitrary features. Each one exists because someone in a production environment hit a real problem: a server failing silently, a config change deployed to the wrong account, a security group left open accidentally. Understanding the problem each service was built to solve is what makes the exam feel logical rather than arbitrary.
Written byAlvin Varughese
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