AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Study Guide [CLF-C01]

Preparing for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (AWS CCP) exam? Don’t know where to start? This post is the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certificate Study Guide (with links to each objective in the exam domain).

I have curated a detailed list of articles from AWS documentation and other blogs for each objective of the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) exam. Please share the post within your circles so it helps them to prepare for the exam.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Course

LinkedIn Learning [Free Trial]	Preparing for the Cloud Practitioner Exam
Pluralsight	Cloud Practitioner Learning Path [Free Trial]
Udemy	AWS Practitioner Course by Zeal Vora
Coursera	AWS Fundamentals Specialization

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Practice Test

Whizlabs Exam Questions	Cloud Practitioner [195 Questions & 21 Labs]
Udemy Practice Test	AWS Certification Exam Practice Questions
Amazon AWS-CCP e-book	AWS Cloud Practitioner Study Guide

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Practice Test

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Cloud Concepts - 26%

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Security and Compliance - 25%

Define the AWS Shared Responsibility Model

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/

Define AWS Cloud Security and Compliance Concepts

Some of the cloud security concepts to be aware of for the AWS CCP exam:

Infrastructure security in Amazon EC2

Resilience in Amazon EC2

AWS Shield, defends against DDoS attacks

Protecting data with Client-side and Server-side encryption

CloudWatch to monitor, store, and access log files from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

AWS CloudTrail that enables governance, compliance, and risk auditing of AWS account

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

AWS Multi-factor Authentication

Also, review this whitepaper on AWS Security & Compliance

Identify AWS Access Management Capabilities

Review AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)

Also, review some of the use cases of IAM:

1. Fine-grained access control to resources

2. AWS MFA (Multi-factor authentication)

3. Analyze access across AWS environment

3. Integrate with corporate directory

Identify Resources for Security Support

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/user/getting-started

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/

Compare AWS Support plans

AWS Trusted Advisor for real time guidance

Technology - 24%

Define Methods of Deploying and Operating in the AWS Cloud

Review this Whitepaper on the overview of deployment options on AWS

Also, learn about each AWS Deployment service and when they should be used:

1. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

2. AWS CloudFormation (For granular control over your infrastructure)

3. AWS OpsWorks (Automate server configuration with Puppet & Chef)

4. AWS CodeCommit (Hosts Git repos)

5. AWS CodePipeline (Continuous delivery service)

6. AWS CodeDeploy (For managing application deployment & updates)

7. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Run, stop & manage Docker containers)

Define the AWS Global Infrastructure

Review the document on AWS Global Infrastructure

Key Components of AWS Global Infrastructure – Regions, Availability Zones & Local Zones

Identify the Core AWS Services

Definitely, review the below core services for the exam:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), a scalable computing capacity

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), a virtual network to launch your AWS resources

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to store and retrieve any amount of data

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), a relational database in the AWS Cloud

AWS Lambda, a compute service to run code without provisioning servers

AWS Route 53, a Domain Name System (DNS) web service

Identify Resources for Technology Support

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/user/getting-started

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/

Compare AWS Support plans

AWS Trusted Advisor for real-time guidance

Billing and Pricing - 18%

Compare and Contrast the Various Pricing Models for AWS

AWS offers several pricing models depending on the product. The 5 different Pricing Models for Amazon EC2 are:

1. Amazon EC2 On-demand Pricing (only pay for use)

2. Amazon EC2 Savings Plan (Huge savings in exchange for commitment)

3. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances (Take advantage of unused EC2 capacity)

4. Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts (Bring your licenses)

Reservations (Commit to a minimum usage level):

1. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

2. Amazon DynamoDB Reserved Capacity

3. Amazon ElastiCache Reserved Nodes

4. Amazon RDS Reserved Instances

5. Amazon Redshift Reserved Nodes

Other AWS services pricing models

Recognize the Various Account Structures in Relation to AWS Billing and Pricing

AWS Account Structure Considerations

Consolidated billing process for Organizations

https://adamdivall.com/aws-account-structures/

Identify Resources Available for Billing Support

Compare AWS Support plans

Get help with AWS billing and Cost management

AWS Enterprise support (Concierge-like services)

This brings us to the end of the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (AWS CCP) [CLF-C01] Exam Preparation Study Guide.

What do you think? Let me know in the comments section if I have missed out on anything. Also, I love to hear from you about how your preparation is going on!

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