AWS Cloud Practitioner study guide
AWS Cloud Practitioner · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner is AWS's foundational, entry-level certification. It is designed for people who need to demonstrate a broad, conceptual understanding of the AWS Cloud rather than deep hands-on engineering skill - sales and marketing staff, project and product managers, finance and procurement teams, support staff, and career-changers preparing for a more technical associate-level certification. The AWS Cloud Practitioner study guide has 4 sections and about 1,545 words.
01Cloud Concepts
Cloud Concepts questions ask you to explain why organizations move to the cloud and to name the models AWS uses to describe that move. You should be able to recite the advantages of cloud computing (trade capital expense for variable expense, benefit from massive economies of scale, stop guessing capacity, increase speed and agility, stop spending money running data centers, go global in minutes), and to separate closely related terms.
387 words, about 2 min02Security and Compliance
AWS is responsible for security of the cloud (facilities, hardware, hypervisor, managed-service internals). You are responsible for security in the cloud (data, identity, guest OS patching on EC2, firewall configuration, encryption choices).
415 words, about 2 min03Cloud Technology and Services
Group services by job. Compute: EC2 (instance families tuned for general purpose, compute, memory, storage, accelerated), Lambda (serverless functions), ECS/EKS with Fargate (containers), Elastic Beanstalk (platform that deploys your app).
355 words, about 2 min04Billing, Pricing, and Support
Four ideas drive every pricing question: pay-as-you-go, save when you reserve, pay less by using more (volume tiers, consolidated billing), and pay less as AWS grows. Compute is billed per second with a one-minute minimum for Linux instances; storage is billed per GB-month; data transfer in is free , data transfer out is charged, and traffic between Availability Zones or Regions is charged while same-AZ private traffic generally is not.
388 words, about 2 min