The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam has been developed to assess the fundamental understanding of AWS Cloud concepts, services, and terminology.
Who should take the AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam?
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam is a good way to begin in non-technical roles with no prior IT or cloud experience or for those with on-premises IT experience looking for basic AWS Cloud fluency. The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam is suitable for -
Candidates from a non-IT background and exploring a career in the AWS Cloud
Candidates working in sales/marketing/business analyst roles looking to communicate more effectively with stakeholders and customers about the AWS Cloud
Candidates working in on-premises IT or cloud roles, but new to AWS Cloud, and need a primer before diving into role-based AWS Certification(s)
Knowledge Acquired
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner imparts the following knowledge -
Fundamental understanding of IT services and their uses on AWS Cloud
Core Knowledge of AWS services and use cases, billing and pricing models, security concepts, and how cloud impacts your business
Recommended AWS knowledge
The candidate planning to take the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam should be acquainted with the following concepts -
AWS Cloud concepts
Security and compliance within the AWS Cloud
Understanding of the core AWS services
Understanding of the economics of the AWS Cloud
Exam Details
Exam Name: AWS Cloud Practitioner
Exam Code: CLF-C02
Exam Duration: 90 minutes
Exam Language: English
Type of Questions: Multiple Choice and Multiple Responses
Passing Score: 700
Course Outline
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam covers the following topics -
Domain 1: Understanding Cloud Concepts
1.1. Learn and define the benefits of the AWS Cloud.
The topic covers the value proposition of the AWS Cloud
Understanding the economies of scale (for example, cost savings)
Describe the benefits of global infrastructure (for example, speed of deployment, global reach)
Understanding the benefits of high availability, elasticity, and agility
1.2. Learn to Identify design principles of the AWS Cloud.
The module covers the concept of AWS Well-Architected Framework
Understanding the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework (for example, operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, sustainability)
Describe the concept of identifying differences between the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework
1.3. Learn the benefits of and strategies for migration to the AWS Cloud.
The topic covers cloud adoption strategies and resources to support the cloud migration journey
Explain the benefits of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
Explain and identify suitable migration strategies (like, database replication, use of AWS Snowball)
1.4. Understand concepts of cloud economics.
The module covers the aspects of cloud economics, and cost savings of moving to the cloud
Explain the role of fixed costs compared with variable costs
Explain costs that are associated with on-premises environments
Understanding the differences between licensing strategies (including, Bring Your Own License [BYOL] model compared with included licenses)
Understanding the concept of rightsizing
Explain and identify benefits of automation (including, provisioning and configuration management with AWS CloudFormation)
Explain and identify managed AWS services (including, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Container Service [Amazon ECS], Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service [Amazon EKS], Amazon DynamoDB)
Domain 2: Understanding Security and Compliance
2.1. Learn about the AWS shared responsibility model.
The topic covers concepts of AWS shared responsibility model
Explain and recognize the components of the AWS shared responsibility model
Understanding the customer’s responsibilities on AWS
Explain AWS responsibilities
Understanding responsibilities that the customer and AWS share
Explain how AWS responsibilities and customer responsibilities can shift, depending on the service used (for example, Amazon RDS, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2)
2.2. Learn AWS Cloud security, governance, and compliance concepts.
The module covers the topics including AWS compliance and governance concepts, advantages of cloud security (for example, encryption) and capture and locate logs that are associated with cloud security
Explain and identify AWS compliance information (including, AWS Artifact)
Understanding compliance needs among geographic locations or industries (for example, AWS Compliance)
Explain how customers secure resources on AWS (for example, Amazon Inspector, AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Shield)
Understanding different encryption options (including, encryption in transit, encryption at rest)
Explain and identify services that aid in governance and compliance (including, monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch; auditing with AWS CloudTrail, AWS Audit Manager, and AWS Config; reporting with access reports)
Explain and identify compliance requirements that vary among AWS services
2.3. Learn and identify AWS access management capabilities.
The topic covers identitying and accessing management, importance of protecting the AWS root user account, principle of least privilege and AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On)
Explain access keys, password policies, and credential storage (including, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Systems Manager)
Explain and identify authentication methods in AWS (including, multi-factor authentication [MFA], IAM Identity Center, cross-account IAM roles)
Learn about groups, users, custom policies, and managed policies in compliance with the principle of least privilege
Learn and identify tasks that only the account root user can perform
Learn and identify methods can achieve root user protection
Learn the types of identity management (for example, federated)
2.4. Identify components and resources for security.
The topic covers concepts including security capabilities that AWS provides, and security-related documentation that AWS provides
Learn the AWS security features and services (including, security groups, network ACLs, AWS WAF)]
Learn third-party security products are available from AWS Marketplace
Learn to identify availability of AWS security information (including, AWS Knowledge Center, AWS Security Center, AWS Security Blog)
Learn the use of AWS services for identifying security issues (including, AWS Trusted Advisor)
Domain 3: Understanding Cloud Technology and Services
3.1. Learn methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud.
The topic covers different ways of provisioning and operating in the AWS Cloud and different ways to access AWS services, types of cloud deployment models and connectivity options
Explain to decide between options such as programmatic access (including, APIs, SDKs, CLI), the AWS Management Console, and infrastructure as code (IaC)
Explain and evaluate requirements to determine whether to use one-time operations or repeatable processes
Explain and identify different deployment models (including, cloud, hybrid, onpremises)
Explain and identify connectivity options (including, AWS VPN, AWS Direct Connect, public internet)
3.2. Learn and define the AWS global infrastructure.
The topic covers AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations, high availability and use of multiple Regions and AWS Wavelength Zones and AWS Local Zones
Understanding relationships among Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations
Explain how to achieve high availability by using multiple Availability Zones
Explain that Availability Zones do not share single points of failure
Understanding when to use multiple Regions (including, disaster recovery, business continuity, low latency for end users, data sovereignty)
Explain at a high level the benefits of edge locations (including, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator)
3.3. Learn and identify AWS compute services.
The topic covers concept of AWS compute services
Explain and identify the appropriate use of different EC2 instance types (including, compute optimized, storage optimized)
Explain and identify the appropriate use of different container options (including , Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS)
Explain and identify the appropriate use of different serverless compute options (including, AWS Fargate, Lambda)
Explain and identify that auto scaling provides elasticity
Explain and identify the purposes of load balancers
3.4. Learn and Identify AWS database services.
The topic includes AWS database services, and Database migration
Explain when to use EC2 hosted databases or AWS managed databases
Explain and identify relational databases (including, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora)
Explain and identify NoSQL databases (including, DynamoDB)
Explain and identify memory-based databases
Explain and identify database migration tools (including AWS Database Migration Service [AWS DMS], AWS Schema Conversion Tool [AWS SCT])
3.5. Learn and identify AWS network services.
The topic covers AWS network services
Explain and identify the components of a VPC (including, subnets, gateways)
Understanding security in a VPC (for example, network ACLs, security groups)
Explain the purpose of Amazon Route 53
Explain and identify edge services (including, CloudFront, Global Accelerator)
Explain and identify network connectivity options to AWS (including AWS VPN, Direct Connect)
3.6. Learn to identify AWS storage services.
The topic covers AWS storage services
Explain and identify the uses for object storage
Understanding the differences in Amazon S3 storage classes
Understanding file services (for example, Amazon Elastic File System [Amazon EFS], Amazon FSx)
Explain cached file systems (for example, AWS Storage Gateway)
Explain use cases for lifecycle policies
Explain use cases for AWS Backup
3.7. Learn to identify AWS artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) services and analytics services.
The topic covered in the exam including AWS AI/ML services and AWS analytics services
Explain the different AI/ML services and the tasks that they accomplish (including, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Lex, Amazon Kendra)
Explain the services for data analytics (for example, Amazon Athena, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Glue, Amazon QuickSight)
3.8. Learn the services from other in-scope AWS service categories.
Explain Application integration services of Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Explain Business application services of Amazon Connect and Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)
Understanding Customer engagement services of AWS Activate for Startups, AWS IQ, AWS Managed Services (AMS), and AWS Support
Understanding Developer tool services and capabilities of AWS AppConfig, AWS Cloud9, AWS CloudShell, AWS CodeArtifact, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeStar, and AWS X-Ray
Explain End-user computing services of Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon WorkSpaces, and Amazon WorkSpaces Web
Explain Frontend web and mobile services of AWS Amplify and AWS AppSync
Explain IoT services of AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Greengrass
Explain selecting the suitable service to deliver messages and to send alerts and notifications
Explain selecting the suitable service to meet business application needs
Explain selecting the suitable service for AWS customer support
Explain selecting the suitable option for business support assistance
Explain the tools to develop, deploy, and troubleshoot applications
Explain the services that can present the output of virtual machines (VMs) on end-user machines
Explain the services that can create and deploy frontend and mobile services
Explain the services that manage IoT devices
Domain 4: Understanding Billing, Pricing, and Support
Explain to identify and comparing when to use various compute purchasing options
Explain Reserved Instance flexibility
Understanding Reserved Instance behavior in AWS Organizations
Explain incoming data transfer costs and outgoing data transfer costs (including, from one Region to another Region, within the same Region)
Understanding different pricing options for various storage options and tiers
4.2. Learn about resources for billing, budget, and cost management.
Explain Billing support and information
Explain Pricing information for AWS services
Explain AWS Organizations
Explain AWS cost allocation tags
Explain suitable uses and capabilities of AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Explorer, and AWS Billing Conductor
Explain suitable uses and capabilities of AWS Pricing Calculator
Explain AWS Organizations consolidated billing and allocation of costs
Explain various types of cost allocation tags and their relation to billing reports (for example, AWS Cost and Usage Report)
4.3: Learn to identify AWS technical resources and AWS Support options.
Understanding the resources and documentation available on official AWS websites
Explaining AWS Support plans
Understanding the role of the AWS Partner Network, including independent software vendors and system integrators
Explaining AWS Support Center
Understanding Locating AWS whitepapers, blogs, and documentation on official AWS websites
Explain to identify and locate AWS technical resources (for example AWS
Explain about prescriptive Guidance, AWS Knowledge Center, AWS re:Post)
Understanding Identifying AWS Support options for AWS customers (including, customer service and communities, AWS Developer Support, AWS Business Support, AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support, AWS Enterprise Support)
Explain to identify the role of Trusted Advisor, AWS Health Dashboard, and the AWS Health API to help manage and monitor environments for cost optimization
Explain to identify the role of the AWS Trust and Safety team to report abuse of AWS resources
Explain the role of AWS Partners (for example AWS Marketplace, independent software vendors, system integrators)
Explain to identify the benefits of being an AWS Partner (including, partner training and certification, partner events, partner volume discounts)
Explain to identify the key services that AWS Marketplace offers (including, cost management, governance and entitlement)
Explain to identify technical assistance options available at AWS (including, AWS Professional Services, AWS Solutions Architects)
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