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The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam
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has 4 different domains, each with corresponding
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weight and topic coverage.
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The exam domains are as follows: Domain 1 is Cloud Concepts, Domain 2 is
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Security and Compliance, Domain 3 is Technology,
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and lastly, Domain 4 is Billing and Pricing.
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These are the four exam domains that you should prepare for
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if you are planning to take this test. The list of exam domains
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can be found in the official Exam Guide for the AWS Certified
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Cloud Practitioner exam. Each exam domain
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has a corresponding weighting so some sections can have more
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or fewer questions than others. One exam domain is comprised
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of several task statements. A task statement is a sub-category
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of the exam domain that contains the required cloud
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concepts, knowledge, and skills for you to accomplish a particular
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task or activity in AWS.
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Let’s look at each of these domains one by one.
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The first domain covers 26% of the exam,
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followed by the second domain, which covers 25%,
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the third one is a whopping 33%, while the last one
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covers 16% of the exam. The “Cloud Concepts”
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exam domain is focused on the fundamental cloud computing
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topics in AWS. You should know and understand
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the benefits of using AWS Cloud over a physical
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on-premises data center, including its business value in terms of
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scalability, global reach, and economy of scale.
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Be sure to brush up on the economics of cloud computing,
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where you have to factor in the total cost of Ownership,
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operational expenses, or OPEX, as well as capital expenses, or CAPEX.
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Cloud architecture design principles are also covered
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under this domain. Again, this domain covers
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26% of the Cloud Practitioner exam and is the
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second-biggest exam domain;
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thus, you have to allocate ample time to review this segment.
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The series of scenarios that you will encounter in
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this section checks your know-how in:
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Defining the AWS Cloud and its value proposition,
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Identifying aspects of AWS Cloud economics,
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and Explaining the different cloud architecture design principles.
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The second exam domain focuses on Amazon’s various
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security and compliance topics. For this one,
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you have to review the different security concepts in AWS,
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such as its access management capabilities, compliance
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controls, and the AWS shared responsibility model.
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You should be familiar with the best practice of granting the
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least privileged access to mission-critical AWS resources
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for your internal staff as well as the external
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partners of your organization. The questions that you will encounter
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in this section will challenge your knowledge in:
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Defining the AWS shared responsibility model,
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Defining AWS Cloud security and compliance concepts,
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Identifying AWS access management capabilities
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Plus, identifying resources for security support.
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The third domain is all about the different services and
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features in AWS. It is the biggest domain in
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the exam, with 33 percent coverage. This includes
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the wide selection of computing services, storage services,
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networking services, database services, and other products
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in Amazon Web Services. Therefore, you must devote a
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significant amount of time studying the various concepts covered
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in this section. You should prepare for: Defining methods
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of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud,
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Defining the AWS global infrastructure,
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Identifying the core AWS services, and
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Identifying resources for technology support.
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The last exam domain revolves around the overall cost of running
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your systems in the cloud. This includes the billing
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options and pricing types in AWS such as
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the concept of Pay-As-You-Go Pricing, Consolidated Billing,
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Capacity Reservations, Support Plans,
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and the different payment options for Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances.
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This segment only comprises 16% of the
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exam coverage, so you have to limit the time you spend reviewing
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the concepts under this domain.
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This section tests your knowledge in: Comparing and
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contrasting the various pricing models for AWS,
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which includes the pricing model for On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot
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Instances, Recognizing the various account structures
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in relation to AWS billing and pricing, as well as
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Identifying resources available for billing support.
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Before starting your exam preparations,
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you should be familiar with these four exam domains and their
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respective task statements. Take note that the Cloud
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Practitioner exam is primarily focused on cloud technology,
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so make sure that you focus on the “Technology” domain and all the related
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knowledge areas in its task statements.
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I highly recommend that you read the official exam
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guide for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam from cover to cover.
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Pay close attention to the topics included, and don’t forget
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to read the Appendix section, which contains a list of related
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AWS services that will appear in the exam.
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The official exam guide contains a list of key tools, technologies,
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and concepts that may show up on the Cloud Practitioner test.
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Keep in mind that this is just a non-exhaustive list
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of the tools and technologies that may or may not
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appear on the exam. This list can change at any time
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and is primarily given to test-takers to help them understand the general
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scope of services, features, or technologies for this certification.
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In addition, the general tools and technologies in this list
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appear in no particular order.
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Here are the topics, AWS services, and concepts
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that you should focus on for your upcoming exam.
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You have to review your knowledge on: APIs, Cost Explorer,
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AWS Cost and Usage Report, AWS Command Line Interface or AWS CLI,
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Elastic Load Balancers, Amazon EC2 instance types,
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AWS global infrastructure,
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Infrastructure as Code or IaC, Amazon Machine Images or AMIs,
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AWS Management Console,
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AWS Marketplace, AWS Professional Services,
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AWS Personal Health Dashboard, AWS Service Health Dashboard,
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Security groups, AWS Service Catalog, Service quotas,
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AWS software development kits or AWS SDKs, AWS Support Center,
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AWS Support tiers, and Virtual private networks or VPNs.
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Remember that out of the
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4 exam domains, the Technology domain has the
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biggest coverage in the exam, at 33%. This means
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that a third of the questions in the entire AWS Certified Cloud
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Practitioner exam covers the many cloud services
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and features in AWS. Most of these AWS services
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can be grouped according to their primary functions
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or use cases, such as Analytics, Application Integration,
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Compute, Database, Networking, et cetera.
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The Appendix section of the exam guide also includes
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a list of relevant AWS services that you should focus on,
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so in your exam, make sure that you review the following
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AWS services. For Analytics, we have Amazon Athena,
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Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon QuickSight.
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For Application Integration, you should know the use cases for
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Amazon Simple Notification Service
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and Amazon Simple Queue Service. For Computing services, study AWS
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AWS Lambda, Amazon Lightsail, and Amazon WorkSpaces.
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For Containers, make sure you know Amazon Elastic
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Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service,
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and AWS Fargate. For Databases, you have
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Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and other
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cloud databases in AWS.
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For Developer Tools, familiarize yourself with the
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CI/CD services in AWS, namely the AWS CodeBuild,
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AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy,
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AWS CodePipeline, and AWS CodeStar.
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The Amazon Connect service is also covered,
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which is commonly used for Customer Engagement activities.
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The Cloud Practitioner exam covers a handful of
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services that relates to Management, Monitoring, and Governance.
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These are: AWS Auto Scaling, AWS Budgets,
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AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudTrail,
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Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config, AWS Cost and Usage Report,
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Amazon EventBridge, AWS License Manager,
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AWS Managed Services, AWS Organizations,
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AWS Secrets Manager,
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AWS Systems Manager,
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AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, and the AWS Trusted Advisor.
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For Networking and Content Delivery category,
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you have Amazon API Gateway, Amazon CloudFront,
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AWS Direct Connect, Amazon Route 53, and
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Amazon VPC. For Security, Identity, and
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Compliance category, prepare to see a range of AWS services
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that you can use to secure your enterprise applications and AWS resources.
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Check out the AWS Artifact service, AWS Certificate
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Manager, AWS CloudHSM, Amazon Cognito,
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Amazon Detective, Amazon GuardDuty,
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AWS Identity and Access Management or IAM,
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Amazon Inspector, AWS License Manager,
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Amazon Macie, AWS Shield, and AWS WAF.
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Pay attention to how these services work together
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and know the appropriate AWS service to use for a particular
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business case or situation.
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Lastly, don’t forget to study the plethora of cloud storage services
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at your disposal, such as AWS Backup,
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Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon Elastic File System,
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Amazon S3, Amazon S3 Glacier, AWS Snowball Edge,
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and AWS Storage Gateway.