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title: Amazon AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam preparation
url: https://raybogman.com/blog/amazon-aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-exam-preparation.md
description: Getting AWS certified can be a challenge for some of us. Here are my
  notes and tips for passing the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
---

Getting **AWS certified** can be a challenge for some of us. The main question remains, where do I start?

So my method was watching most of all online training videos. The one I most liked was created by **Stephane Maarek** posted on **Udemy.com** [Ultimate AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - 2021](https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-new/).

This **Ultimate AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - CLF-C01** online training contains:
* 11 hours of on-demand video
* 5 docs
* 1 practice exams
* livelong Access

### Practice exams

* [5 extra practice exams](https://www.udemy.com/course/practice-exams-aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/)
* [ExamTopics - 520+ questions](https://www.examtopics.com/exams/amazon/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner/view/)

### Exam score

To pass you need a score of 700 or higher. The exam has 65 single and multiple-choice questions. You have 90 minutes which should be fine.

![Amazon AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Score](/assets/images/amazon-aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-exam-score.jpg)

### White Papers

* [Overview of Amazon Web Services](https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-overview.pdf)
* [Architecting for the Cloud: Best Practices](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-whitepaper-architecting-for-the-cloud-best-practices/)
* [How AWS Pricing Works](http://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws_pricing_overview.pdf)
* [Compare AWS Support Plans](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/)
* [AWS well architected framework](https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS_Well-Architected_Framework.pdf)

### AWS Products/Acronyms

The following AWS products/acronyms are important to know by heart:

* **IAM** - Identity and Access Management
* **EC2** - Elastic Computing Cloud
* **EBS** - Elastic Block Store
* **EFS** - Elastic File System (NFS)
* **ELB** - Elastic Load Balancer
* **ASG** - Auto Scaling Group
* **S3** - Simple Cloud Storage
* **RDS** - Relational Database Service
* **DynamoDB** - noSQL/Serverless DB
* **Redshift** - OLAP (data warehouse)
* **ECS** - Elastic Container Service
* **Fargate** - Serverless Container Service
* **Lambda** - Function as a Service/Serverless Computing
* **CloudFormation** - Infrastructure as code
* **Route53** - Domain Name Service (DNS)
* **CloudFront** - Content Delivery Network (CDN)
* **VPC** - Virtual Private Cloud
* **AWS Shield** - DDOS protection
* **AWS WAF** - Web Application Firewall

### AWS Support Plans
- Basic
- Developer
- Business
- Enterprise

![Comparison of AWS support plans](/assets/images/comparison-of-aws-support-plans.jpg)

### AWS Trusted Advisor
- Cost Optimization
- Performance
- Security
- Fault Tolerance
- Service Limits

![AWS Trusted Advisor](/assets/images/aws-trusted-advisor.png)

### Well Architected Framework
- Operational Excellence
- Security
- Reliability
- Performance Efficiency
- Cost Optimisation

![AWS Well Architected Framework](/assets/images/aws-well-architected-framework.png)

### AWS Shared Responsibility Model

![AWS Shared Responsibility Model](/assets/images/aws-shared-responsibility-model.jpg)

Enjoy your journey to get AWS Certified!