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Exam Information
Official specifications published by Amazon
Exam Format
90 min
65
700
Foundational
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Validity
3 years
Retake the current exam; Pass a higher-level AWS certification; Complete continuing education activities
CLF-C02 Exam Topics and Domains
CLF-C02 is organized into 4 weighted domains. Expect to work with Amazon RDS, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EC2, and more.
1
Cloud Concepts
24%
Define the benefits of the AWS Cloud
Value proposition of the AWS Cloud
- Understanding the economies of scale
- Understanding the benefits of global infrastructure
- Understanding the advantages of high availability, elasticity, and agility
Identify design principles of the AWS Cloud
AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Understanding the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework
- Identifying differences between the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework
Understand the benefits of and strategies for migration to the AWS Cloud
Cloud adoption strategies
- Understanding the benefits of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
- Identifying appropriate migration strategies
Understand concepts of cloud economics
Aspects of cloud economics
- Understanding the role of fixed costs compared with variable costs
- Understanding costs associated with on-premises environments
- Understanding differences between licensing strategies
- Understanding the concept of rightsizing
- Identifying benefits of automation
- Identifying managed AWS services
2
Security and Compliance
30%
Understand the AWS shared responsibility model
AWS shared responsibility model components
- Recognizing the components of the AWS shared responsibility model
- Describing the customer's responsibilities on AWS
- Describing AWS responsibilities
- Describing responsibilities that the customer and AWS share
- Describing how AWS responsibilities and customer responsibilities can shift
Understand AWS Cloud security, governance, and compliance concepts
AWS compliance and governance
- Identifying where to find AWS compliance information
- Understanding compliance needs among geographic locations or industries
- Describing how customers secure resources on AWS
- Identifying different encryption options
- Recognizing services that aid in governance and compliance
- Recognizing compliance requirements that vary among AWS services
Identify AWS access management capabilities
Identity and access management
- Understanding access keys, password policies, and credential storage
- Identifying authentication methods in AWS
- Defining groups, users, custom policies, and managed policies
- Identifying tasks that only the account root user can perform
- Understanding which methods can achieve root user protection
- Understanding the types of identity management
Identify components and resources for security
Security capabilities and documentation
- Describing AWS security features and services
- Understanding that third-party security products are available from AWS Marketplace
- Identifying where AWS security information is available
- Understanding the use of AWS services for identifying security issues
3
Cloud Technology and Services
34%
Define methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud
Deployment and access methods
- Deciding between options such as programmatic access, AWS Management Console, and IaC
- Evaluating requirements for one-time operations or repeatable processes
- Identifying different deployment models
- Identifying connectivity options
Define the AWS global infrastructure
AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations
- Describing relationships among Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations
- Describing how to achieve high availability by using multiple Availability Zones
- Recognizing that Availability Zones do not share single points of failure
- Describing when to use multiple Regions
- Describing at a high level the benefits of edge locations
Identify AWS compute services
AWS compute services
- Recognizing the appropriate use of different EC2 instance types
- Recognizing the appropriate use of different container options
- Recognizing the appropriate use of different serverless compute options
- Recognizing that auto scaling provides elasticity
- Identifying the purposes of load balancers
Identify AWS database services
AWS database services and migration
- Deciding when to use EC2 hosted databases or AWS managed databases
- Identifying relational databases
- Identifying NoSQL databases
- Identifying memory-based databases
- Identifying database migration tools
Identify AWS network services
AWS network services
- Identifying the components of a VPC
- Understanding security in a VPC
- Understanding the purpose of Amazon Route 53
- Identifying edge services
- Identifying network connectivity options to AWS
Identify AWS storage services
AWS storage services
- Identifying the uses for object storage
- Recognizing the differences in Amazon S3 storage classes
- Identifying block storage solutions
- Identifying file services
- Identifying cached file systems
- Understanding use cases for lifecycle policies
- Understanding use cases for AWS Backup
Identify AWS artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) services and analytics services
AI/ML and analytics services
- Understanding the different AI/ML services and the tasks that they accomplish
- Identifying the services for data analytics
Identify services from other in-scope AWS service categories
Other AWS services
- Choosing the appropriate service to deliver messages and send alerts
- Choosing the appropriate service to meet business application needs
- Choosing the appropriate service for AWS customer support
- Identifying the tools to develop, deploy, and troubleshoot applications
- Identifying the services that can present output of VMs on end-user machines
- Identifying the services that can create and deploy frontend and mobile services
- Identifying the services that manage IoT devices
4
Billing, Pricing, and Support
12%
Compare AWS pricing models
Compute purchasing options and pricing
- Identifying and comparing when to use various compute purchasing options
- Describing Reserved Instance flexibility
- Describing Reserved Instance behavior in AWS Organizations
- Understanding incoming and outgoing data transfer costs
- Understanding different pricing options for various storage options and tiers
Understand resources for billing, budget, and cost management
Billing and cost management resources
- Understanding the appropriate uses and capabilities of AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Explorer, and AWS Billing Conductor
- Understanding the appropriate uses and capabilities of AWS Pricing Calculator
- Understanding AWS Organizations consolidated billing and allocation of costs
- Understanding various types of cost allocation tags and their relation to billing reports
Identify AWS technical resources and AWS Support options
Technical resources and support
- Locating AWS whitepapers, blogs, and documentation on official AWS websites
- Identifying and locating AWS technical resources
- Identifying AWS Support options for AWS customers
- Identifying the role of Trusted Advisor, AWS Health Dashboard, and AWS Health API
- Identifying the role of AWS Trust and Safety team
- Understanding the role of AWS Partners
- Identifying the benefits of being an AWS Partner
- Identifying the key services that AWS Marketplace offers
- Identifying technical assistance options available at AWS
How do I earn this certification?
Passing CLF-C02 earns the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification. It sits in the AWS Cloud Fundamentals track.
Next Level Options
Alternative Paths
- MLS-C01 - AWS Certified Machine Learning - SpecialtyDirect path to ML specialty
- DAS-C01 - AWS Certified Data Analytics - SpecialtyFocus on data and analytics
- SCS-C02 - AWS Certified Security - SpecialtySecurity specialization
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What's changed on this exam?
Current Status
- ACTIVE
- Last content update: 2024-06-15
- Announcement date: 2023-09-19
Updates
- Amazon Bedrock GA Generative AI services now included in AI/ML domain • Release date: 2023-09-28
- AWS Sustainability Pillar 2.0 Sixth pillar of Well-Architected Framework now tested • Release date: 2023-12-01
- AWS Cost Optimization Hub 1.0 New cost management tool in Domain 4 • Release date: 2024-03-15
Who should take this exam?
This exam is typically taken by Individuals with no prior IT or cloud experience and Line-of-business employees seeking cloud literacy.
- Six months of exposure to AWS Cloud
- Basic understanding of IT services
- Knowledge of core AWS services and use cases
- Basic understanding of AWS billing and pricing models
- Understanding of security concepts in the AWS Cloud