HOW TO PASS THE AMAZON CLF-C01 EXAM

The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) examination is meant for folks that can effectively

Show ordinary know-how of the AWS Cloud unbiased of a particular process function.

The examination validates a candidate’s capacity to finish the subsequent responsibilities: Explain the fee of the AWS Cloud

Understand and provide an explanation for the AWS shared duty model

Understand safety practices

Understand AWS Cloud prices, economics, and billing practices

Describe and function the middle AWS offerings, which include computing, community, databases, and

Garage Identify AWS offerings for not unusual place use cases



Target candidate description The goal candidate must have 6 months, or the equivalent, of lively engagement with the AWS Cloud, with publicity to AWS Cloud layout, implementation, and/or operations. Candidates will show the know-how of well-designed AWS Cloud solutions. Recommended AWS know-how The goal candidate must have the subsequent know-how: AWS Cloud concepts Security and compliance withinside the AWS Cloud

Understanding of the middle AWS offerings understanding of the economics of the AWS Cloud

What is taken into consideration out of scope for the goal candidate?

The following is a non-exhaustive listing of associated process responsibilities that the goal candidate isn't predicted to be

capable of performing. These gadgets are taken into consideration out of scope for the examination:

Coding

Designing cloud structure TroubleshootingImplementation Migration Load and overall performance testing Business applications (for instance, Amazon Alexa, Amazon Chime, Amazon WorkMail)To view an in-depth listing of precise equipment and technology that is probably blanketed at the examination, in addition to lists of in-scope AWS offerings, confer with the Appendix.

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Exam content material Response types There are  forms of questions about the examination:

Multiple choice: Has one accurate reaction and 3 wrong responses (distractors)

Multiple reactions: Has  or greater accurate responses out of 5 or greater reaction alternatives

Select one or greater responses that nicely entire the assertion or solution to the question. Distractors, or

wrong answers, are reaction alternatives that a candidate with incomplete know-how or talent would possibly choose.

Distractors are usually workable responses that shape the content material area.

Unanswered questions are scored as wrong; there may be no penalty for guessing. The examination consists of 50 questions in an effort to have an effect on your rating.

Unscored content material The examination consists of 15 unscored questions that don't have an effect on your rating. AWS collects statistics approximately candidate overall performance on those unscored questions to assess those questions for destiny use as scored questions. These unscored questions aren't recognized at the examination. Exam effects The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner examination is a skip or fail the examination. The examination is scored towards a minimal widespread installed through AWS specialists who observe certification enterprise nice practices and guidelines. Your effects for the examination are stated as a scaled rating of 100–1,000. The minimal passing rating is 700.

Your rating indicates the way you achieved at the examination as an entire and whether or not or now no longer you passed. Scaled scoring fashions assist equate ratings throughout more than one examination bureaucracy that could have barely exceptional difficulty tiers. Your rating document can also additionally incorporate a desk of classifications of your overall performance at every segment stage. This statistics is meant to offer popular comments approximately your examination overall performance. The examination makes use of a compensatory scoring model, this means that you do now no longer want to gain a passing rating in every segment. You want to skip most effective the general examination. Each segment of the examination has a particular weighting, so a few sections have greater questions than others. The desk consists of popular statistics that highlight your strengths and weaknesses. Use warning whilst decoding segment-stage comments. Content outline This examination manual consists of weightings, check domain names, and targets for the examination. It isn't a comprehensive list of the content material at the examination. However, the extra context for every one of the targets is to be had to assist manual your practice for the examination. The following desk lists the principle content material domain names and their weightings. The desk precedes the entire examination content material outline, which incorporates the extra context. The percent in every area represents the most effective scored content material. Version 2.1 CLF-C01 three | PAGE

Domain % of Exam

Domain 1: Cloud Concepts 26%

Domain 2: Security and Compliance 25%

Domain three: Technology 33%

Domain four: Billing and Pricing 16%

TOTAL 100%

Domain 1: Cloud Concepts

1.1 Define the AWS Cloud and its fee proposition

Define the advantages of the AWS cloud which include:

o Security

o Reliability

o High Availability

o Elasticity

o Agility

o Pay-as-you cross pricing

o Scalability

o Global Reach

o Economy of scale

Explain how the AWS cloud permits customers to recognition on commercial enterprise fee

o Shifting technical assets to revenue-producing sports in place of managing

infrastructure

1.2 Identify factors of AWS Cloud economics

Define gadgets that might be a part of a Total Cost of Ownership proposal

o Understand the function of operational expenses (OpEx)

o Understand the function of capital expenses (CapEx)

o Understand exertions prices related to on-premises operations

o Understand the effect of software program licensing prices whilst shifting to the cloud

Identify which operations will lessen prices through shifting to the cloud

o Right-sized infrastructure

o Benefits of automation

o Reduce compliance scope (for instance, reporting)

o Managed offerings (for instance, RDS, ECS, EKS, DynamoDB)

1. three Explain the exceptional cloud structure layout principles

Explain the layout principles

o Design for failure

o Decouple additives as opposed to the monolithic structure

o Implement elasticity withinside the cloud as opposed to on-premises

o Think parallel

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Domain 2: Security and Compliance

2.1 Define the AWS shared duty model

Recognize the factors of the Shared Responsibility Model

Describe the customer’s responsibility on AWS

o Describe how the customer’s duties can also additionally shift relying at the carrier used

(for instance with RDS, Lambda, or EC2)

Describe AWS duties

2.2 Define AWS Cloud safety and compliance concepts

Identify in which to discover AWS compliance statistics

o Locations of lists of diagnosed to be had compliance controls (for instance, HIPPA,

SOCs)

o Recognize that compliance necessities range amongst AWS offerings

At an excessive stage, describe how clients gain compliance on AWS

o Identify exceptional encryption alternatives on AWS (for instance, In transit, At rest)

Describe who permits encryption on AWS for a given carrier

Recognize there are offerings in an effort to resource in auditing and reporting

o Recognize that logs exist for auditing and monitoring (do now no longer need to recognize the

logs)

o Define Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config, and AWS CloudTrail

Explain the idea of the least privileged getting entry to

2. three Identify AWS get entry to control capabilities

Understand the reason of User and Identity Management

o Access keys and password rules (rotation, complexity)

o Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

o AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• Groups/customers

• Roles

• Policies, controlled rules as compared to custom rules

o Tasks that require the use of root bills

Protection of root bills

2. four Identify assets for safety aid

Recognize there are exceptional community safety capabilities

o Native AWS offerings (for instance, safety groups, Network ACLs, AWS WAF)

o three

rd celebration safety merchandise from the AWS Marketplace

Recognize there may be documentation and in which to discover it (for instance, nice practices,

whitepapers, legitimate documents)

o AWS Knowledge Center, Security Center, safety forum, and safety blogs

o Partner Systems Integrators

Know that safety exams are an issue of AWS Trusted Advisor

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Domain three: Technology

three.1 Define strategies of deploying and running withinside the AWS Cloud

Identify at an excessive stage exceptional approaches of provisioning and running withinside the AWS cloud

o Programmatic get entry to, APIs, SDKs, AWS Management Console, CLI, Infrastructure as

Code

Identify exceptional forms of cloud deployment fashions

o All in with cloud/cloud-native

o Hybrid

o On-premises

Identify connectivity alternatives

o VPN

o AWS Direct Connect

o Public internet

three.2 Define the AWS international infrastructure

Describe the relationships amongst Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations

Describe a way to gain excessive availability via the usage of more than one Availability Zones

o Recall that excessive availability is finished through the use of more than one Availability Zones

o Recognize that Availability Zones do now no longer proportion unmarried factors of failure

Describe whilst to remember the usage of more than one AWS Regions

o Disaster recovery/commercial enterprise continuity

o Low latency for end-customers

o Data sovereignty

Describe at an excessive stage the advantages of Edge Locations

o Amazon CloudFront

o AWS Global Accelerator

three. three Identify the middle AWS offerings

Describe the kinds of offerings on AWS (compute, garage, community, database)

Identify AWS compute offerings

o Recognize there are exceptional compute families

o Recognize the exceptional offerings that offer compute (for instance, AWS Lambda

as compared to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), or Amazon EC2, etc.)

o Recognize that elasticity is finished via Auto Scaling

o Identify the reason for load balancers

Identify exceptional AWS garage offerings

o Describe Amazon S3

o Describe Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

o Describe Amazon S3 Glacier

o Describe AWS Snowball

o Describe Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

o Describe AWS Storage Gateway

Identify AWS networking offerings

o Identify VPC

o Identify safety groups

o Identify the reason for Amazon Route 53

o Identify VPN, AWS Direct Connect

Identify exceptional AWS database offerings

o Install databases on Amazon EC2 as compared to AWS controlled databases

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o Identify Amazon RDS

o Identify Amazon DynamoDB

o Identify Amazon Redshift

three.four Identify assets for era aid

Recognize there may be documentation (nice practices, whitepapers, AWS Knowledge Center,

forums, blogs)

Identify the numerous tiers and scope of AWS aid

o AWS Abuse

o AWS aid cases

o Premium aid

o Technical Account Managers

Recognize there may be an associate community (marketplace, third-celebration) which include Independent

Software Vendors and System Integrators

Identify assets of AWS technical help and know-how which include expert offerings,

answer architects, schooling and certification, and the Amazon Partner Network

Identify the advantages of the use of AWS Trusted Advisor

Domain four: Billing and Pricing

four.1 Compare and comparison the numerous pricing fashions for AWS (for instance, On-Demand Instances,

Reserved Instances, and Spot Instance pricing)

Identify scenarios/nice suit for On-Demand Instance pricing

Identify scenarios/nice suit for Reserved-Instance pricing

o Describe Reserved-Instances flexibility

o Describe Reserved-Instances conduct in AWS Organizations

Identify scenarios/nice suit for Spot Instance pricing

four.2 Recognize the numerous account systems with regards to AWS billing and pricing

Recognize that consolidated billing is a function of AWS Organizations

Identify how more than one bills resource in allocating prices throughout departments

four.three Identify assets to be had for billing aid

Identify approaches to get billing aid and statistics

o Cost Explorer, AWS Cost and Usage Report, Amazon QuickSight, third-celebration partners,

and AWS Marketplace equipment

o Open a billing aid case

o The function of the Concierge for AWS Enterprise Support Plan clients

Identify in which to discover pricing statistics on AWS offerings

o AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

o AWS Services product pages

o AWS Pricing API

Recognize that alarms/indicators exist

Identify how tags are utilized in fee allocation

 

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Appendix

Which key equipment, technology, and ideas is probably blanketed at the examination?

The following is a non-exhaustive listing of the equipment and technology that would seem at the examination. This listing

is a challenge to extrude and is supplied that will help you recognize the overall scope of offerings, features, or

technology at the examination. The popular equipment and technology on this listing seem in no unique order.

AWS offerings are grouped in line with their number one functions. While a number of that technology will likely

be blanketed greater than others at the examination, the order and location of them on this listing aren't wanted any indication of

relative weight or importance:

APIs

Cost Explorer AWS Cost and Usage Report AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) Elastic Load Balancers Amazon EC2 example types (for instance, Reserved, On-Demand, Spot) AWS international infrastructure (for instance, AWS Regions, Availability Zones) Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) AWS Management Console AWS Marketplace AWS Professional Services AWS Personal Health Dashboard Security groups AWS Service Catalog AWS Service Health Dashboard Service quotas AWS software program improvement kits (SDKs) AWS Support Center AWS Support tiers Virtual personal networks (VPNs) AWS offerings and features Analytics: Amazon Athena Amazon Kinesis Amazon QuickSight Application Integration: Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) Compute and Serverless: AWS Batch Amazon EC2 AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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