AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 Lessons

Every lesson is free to read, with three practice questions each. Work through them in order, or jump to the objective you need.

  1. The benefits of the AWS Cloud: global reach, high availability, elasticity and agilityObjective 1.1Audio
  2. The AWS Well-Architected Framework, and how its six pillars differObjective 1.2Audio
  3. Moving to AWS: the Cloud Adoption Framework and migration strategiesObjective 1.3Audio
  4. Cloud economics: fixed against variable costs, on-premises costs and economies of scaleObjective 1.4Audio
  5. Cloud economics: licensing models, rightsizing and what automation savesObjective 1.4Audio
  6. The AWS shared responsibility model, and how it shifts between EC2, RDS and LambdaObjective 2.1
  7. Compliance and governance: AWS Artifact, regional and industry requirements, and the services that monitor and auditObjective 2.2
  8. Securing resources on AWS: encryption in transit and at rest, and the services customers use to protect workloadsObjective 2.2
  9. IAM: users, groups, roles and policies, least privilege, federation and IAM Identity CenterObjective 2.3
  10. Protecting the root user, and handling access keys, password policies and stored credentialsObjective 2.3
  11. Security services, third-party security tools, and where AWS publishes security informationObjective 2.4
  12. Ways to provision and reach AWS: the console, APIs, SDKs, the CLI and infrastructure as code, across deployment modelsObjective 3.1
  13. AWS global infrastructure: Regions, Availability Zones, edge locations, and when to use more than one RegionObjective 3.2
  14. Amazon EC2 instance types, auto scaling and load balancersObjective 3.3
  15. Containers and serverless compute: Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate and AWS LambdaObjective 3.3
  16. Databases on AWS: managed or self-hosted, relational, NoSQL and in-memory, and migrating with DMS and SCTObjective 3.4
  17. Amazon VPC, Route 53 and connecting to AWS: subnets, gateways, security groups, network ACLs, VPN and Direct ConnectObjective 3.5
  18. Amazon S3: object storage, storage classes and lifecycle policiesObjective 3.6
  19. Block, file and hybrid storage, and AWS Backup: EBS, instance store, EFS, FSx and Storage GatewayObjective 3.6
  20. AI/ML and analytics services: what SageMaker AI, Lex and the other AI services do, and Athena, Kinesis, Glue and Quick SightObjective 3.7
  21. Messaging, business applications and customer enablement: EventBridge, SNS, SQS, Connect, SES and AWS SupportObjective 3.8
  22. Developer tools, end-user computing, frontend and IoT services: CodeBuild, CodePipeline, X-Ray, WorkSpaces, AppStream 2.0, Amplify and IoT CoreObjective 3.8
  23. Pricing models: On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot and Dedicated options, data transfer and storage tiersObjective 4.1
  24. Billing and cost management: AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, the Pricing Calculator, consolidated billing and cost allocation tagsObjective 4.2
  25. AWS Support plans and technical resources: re:Post, Knowledge Center, Prescriptive Guidance, Trusted Advisor and AWS HealthObjective 4.3
  26. AWS Partners, AWS Marketplace, AWS Professional Services and solutions architectsObjective 4.3