Introduction

he AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) examination is intended for individuals who have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to demonstrate basic knowledge of the AWS platform, including: available services and their common use cases, AWS Cloud architectural principles (at the conceptual level), account security, and compliance. The candidate will demonstrate an understanding of AWS Cloud economics including: costs, billing, and analysis, and the value proposition of the AWS Cloud.

Exam content

  1. Multiple choice (choose 1 out of 5)
  2. Multiple response (choose <1 out of 5)

Content outline

Domain % of Examination
1. Cloud Concepts 26%
2. Security and Compliance 25%
3. Technology 33%
4. Billing and Pricing 16%

What is Cloud computing?

6 advantages and benefits of cloud computing

  1. No upfront cost/Pay on demand
  2. Benefit from massive economies of scale
  3. Stop guessing the capacity
  4. Increase speed and agility
  5. Stop spending money on running and maintaining data centres
  6. Go global in minutes

Types of cloud computing

  1. SaaS for customers, like email, microsoft
  2. PaaS for developers, like heroku, engine for google
  3. Iaas for Admins, aes, google cloud platform

Cloud computing deployment models?

  1. Cloud, using cloud fully, like dropbox
  2. Hybrid, both cloud and on-premise, like Delooitte
  3. On-premise, premise only, like insurance companies, hospitals

AWS global infrastructure

  1. 69 availability zones
  2. 22 Geographical regions

AWS largest region is? region map

US-EAST New service almost always become available first in US-EAST.

Availability Zones (AZs)

  1. An AZ is a datacentre owned and operated by AWS in which AWS services run
  2. Each region has at least 2 AZs.

Edge locations

An Edge location is a datacentre owned by a trusted partner of AWS which has direct connection to the AWS network.

GovCloud(US)

  1. AWS GovCloud Regions allow customers to host sensitive Controlled Unclassified Information and other types of regulated workloads.
  2. It only operated by employees who are US citizens, on US soil
  3. Example department:
    • Department of Justice
    • US International Traffic in Arms Regulations
    • Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide

Reference

  1. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, YouTube
  2. Introducing The #AWSCertified Challenge: A Path to Your First AWS Certifications, freecodecamo
  3. Exam guide and sample questions here