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.
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
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.
White Papers
- Overview of Amazon Web Services
- Architecting for the Cloud: Best Practices
- How AWS Pricing Works
- Compare AWS Support Plans
- AWS well architected framework
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
AWS Trusted Advisor
- Cost Optimization
- Performance
- Security
- Fault Tolerance
- Service Limits
Well Architected Framework
- Operational Excellence
- Security
- Reliability
- Performance Efficiency
- Cost Optimisation
AWS Shared Responsibility Model
Enjoy your journey to get AWS Certified!