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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Validates foundational, high-level understanding of AWS Cloud, services, and terminology.

Licensing authority: Amazon Web Services, Inc. · Application information

Initial by examination
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)
Exam Result
passing score via a proctored examination
Scope
initial certification only; renewal paths excluded

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)

Provider
Pearson VUE
Format
Multiple choice or multiple response; Pearson VUE testing center or online proctored exam
Exam questions
Total questions: 65; Scored questions: 50; Unscored questions: 15; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
Time limit
90 minutes
Passing score
700 on a scaled score of 100–1,000
Exam fee
100 USD
Examination outline
  • Content Domain 1: Cloud Concepts (24%)
    • Task Statement 1.1: Define the benefits of the AWS Cloud. Knowledge: value proposition of the AWS Cloud. Skills: benefits of global infrastructure, including deployment speed and global reach; advantages of high availability, elasticity, and agility.
    • Task Statement 1.2: Identify design principles of the AWS Cloud. Knowledge: AWS Well-Architected Framework. Skills: understand and distinguish its operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability pillars.
    • Task Statement 1.3: Understand the benefits of and strategies for migration to the AWS Cloud. Knowledge: cloud adoption strategies and migration-journey resources. Skills: understand AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) components, including business risk, ESG performance, revenue, and operational efficiency; identify appropriate migration strategies, such as database replication.
    • Task Statement 1.4: Understand concepts of cloud economics. Knowledge: aspects of cloud economics and cost savings from cloud migration. Skills: fixed versus variable costs; on-premises costs; licensing strategies such as BYOL versus included licenses; rightsizing; automation benefits; economies of scale.
  • Content Domain 2: Security and Compliance (30%)
    • Task Statement 2.1: Understand the AWS shared responsibility model. Knowledge: the model. Skills: components; customer, AWS, and shared responsibilities; how the split shifts by service, including Amazon RDS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon EC2.
    • Task Statement 2.2: Understand AWS Cloud security, governance, and compliance concepts. Knowledge: compliance and governance concepts; cloud-security benefits such as encryption; security log capture and location. Skills: find compliance information such as AWS Artifact; geographic and industry compliance needs; secure resources with services such as Amazon Inspector, AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, and AWS Shield; encryption in transit and at rest; governance and compliance monitoring, auditing and access reporting; service-specific compliance requirements.
    • Task Statement 2.3: Identify AWS access management capabilities. Knowledge: IAM, root-user protection, least privilege, and AWS IAM Identity Center. Skills: access keys, password policies and credential storage; MFA, Identity Center, and cross-account IAM roles; groups, users and policies under least privilege; root-only tasks and root protection; federated identity management.
    • Task Statement 2.4: Identify components and resources for security. Knowledge: AWS security capabilities and security documentation. Skills: security features and services such as AWS WAF, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Shield, and Amazon GuardDuty; third-party security products in AWS Marketplace; AWS Knowledge Center, AWS Security Center and AWS Security Blog; identifying security issues with AWS Trusted Advisor.
  • Content Domain 3: Cloud Technology and Services (34%)
    • Task Statement 3.1: Define methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud. Knowledge: provisioning and operating methods, AWS service access methods, and cloud deployment models. Skills: choose APIs, SDKs, CLI, AWS Management Console, or infrastructure as code; one-time versus repeatable processes; cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployments.
    • Task Statement 3.2: Define the AWS global infrastructure. Knowledge: Regions, Availability Zones, edge locations, high availability, multiple Regions, and edge-location benefits. Skills: relationships among Regions, Availability Zones and edge locations; multiple Availability Zones without shared single points of failure; multiple Regions for disaster recovery, business continuity, latency, and data sovereignty.
    • Task Statement 3.3: Identify AWS compute services. Knowledge: AWS compute services. Skills: EC2 instance types; Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS container options; AWS Fargate and AWS Lambda serverless options; elasticity through auto scaling; purposes of load balancers.
    • Task Statement 3.4: Identify AWS database services. Knowledge: AWS database services and database migration. Skills: EC2-hosted versus AWS-managed databases; relational services such as Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora; NoSQL such as Amazon DynamoDB; memory-based Amazon ElastiCache; AWS DMS and AWS SCT migration tools.
    • Task Statement 3.5: Identify AWS network services. Knowledge: AWS network services. Skills: VPC components such as subnets and gateways; VPC security including network ACLs, security groups and Amazon Inspector; purpose of Amazon Route 53; AWS VPN and AWS Direct Connect connectivity.
    • Task Statement 3.6: Identify AWS storage services. Knowledge: AWS storage services. Skills: object storage; Amazon S3 storage classes; block storage including Amazon EBS and instance store; file services including Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx; cached file systems such as AWS Storage Gateway; lifecycle policies; AWS Backup.
    • Task Statement 3.7: Identify AWS artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) services and analytics services. Knowledge: AWS AI/ML and analytics services. Skills: AI/ML tasks and services such as Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Lex; data analytics services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Glue, and Amazon Quick Sight.
    • Task Statement 3.8: Identify services from other in-scope AWS service categories. Knowledge: EventBridge, Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS integration; Amazon Connect and Amazon SES business applications; AWS Support; AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline and AWS X-Ray; Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser; AWS Amplify; AWS IoT Core. Skills: messaging and alerts; business applications; support; developing, deploying and troubleshooting applications; presenting VM output on end-user machines; frontend and mobile services; managing IoT devices.
  • Content Domain 4: Billing, Pricing, and Support (12%)
    • Task Statement 4.1: Compare AWS pricing models. Knowledge: On-Demand, Reserved and Spot Instances, AWS Savings Plans, Dedicated Hosts, Dedicated Instances, Capacity Reservations, and storage options and tiers. Skills: choosing compute purchasing options; Reserved Instance flexibility and behavior in AWS Organizations; incoming and outgoing data-transfer costs; storage-tier pricing.
    • Task Statement 4.2: Understand resources for billing, budget, and cost management. Knowledge: billing support and information, AWS service pricing information, AWS Organizations, and cost allocation tags. Skills: AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Pricing Calculator, consolidated billing and cost allocation, tag types and relation to reports such as AWS Cost and Usage Report.
    • Task Statement 4.3: Identify AWS technical resources and AWS Support options. Knowledge: official AWS website resources and documentation, AWS Support plans, AWS Partner Network roles, and AWS Support Center. Skills: find AWS whitepapers, blogs, documentation, Prescriptive Guidance, Knowledge Center, and re:Post; customer service and community support, Basic Support, AWS Business Support+, AWS Enterprise Support and AWS Unified Operations; AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Health Dashboard and AWS Health API for cost optimization; Trust and Safety abuse reporting; AWS Partners, Marketplace offerings and partner benefits; AWS Professional Services and solutions architects.
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