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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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LQEX-AWS-CLF-C01
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Course Description
Overview
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam is intended for individuals who can effectively demonstrate an overall knowledge of the AWS Cloud independent of a specific job role.The exam validates a candidate’s ability to complete the following tasks:
- Explain the value of the AWS Cloud
- Understand and explain the AWS shared responsibility model
- Understand security best practices
- Understand AWS Cloud costs, economics, and billing practices
- Describe and position the core AWS services, including compute, network, databases, and storage
- Identify AWS services for common use cases
The following is a non-exhaustive list of related job tasks that the target candidate is not expected to be able to perform. These items are considered out of scope for the exam:
- Coding
- Designing cloud architecture
- Troubleshooting
- Implementation
- Migration
- Load and performance testing
- Business applications (for example, Amazon Alexa, Amazon Chime, Amazon WorkMail)
Objectives
Audience
The target candidate should have 6 months, or the equivalent, of active engagement with the AWS Cloud, with exposure to AWS Cloud design, implementation, and/or operations. Candidates will demonstrate an understanding of well-designed AWS Cloud solutions.
Prerequisites
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Recommended AWS knowledge
The target candidate should have the following knowledge:
- AWS Cloud concepts
- Security and compliance within the AWS Cloud
- Understanding of the core AWS services
- Understanding of the economics of the AWS Cloud
Topics
Domain 1: Cloud Concepts
1.1 Define the AWS Cloud and its value proposition
- Define the benefits of the AWS cloud including: Security, Reliability, High Availability, Elasticity, Agility, Pay-as-you go pricing, Scalability , Global Reach, Economy of scale
- Explain how the AWS cloud allows users to focus on business value: Shifting technical resources to revenue-generating activities as opposed to managing
- Define items that would be part of a Total Cost of Ownership proposal: Understand the role of operational expenses (OpEx), Understand the role of capital expenses (CapEx), Understand labor costs associated with on-premises operations, Understand the impact of software licensing costs when moving to the cloud
- Identify which operations will reduce costs by moving to the cloud: Right-sized infrastructure, Benefits of automation, Reduce compliance scope (for example, reporting), Managed services (for example, RDS, ECS, EKS, DynamoDB)
- Explain the design principles: Design for failure, Decouple components versus monolithic architecture, Implement elasticity in the cloud versus on-premises, Think parallel
- Recognize the elements of the Shared Responsibility Model
- Describe the customer’s responsibly on AWS
- Describe how the customer’s responsibilities may shift depending on the service used (for example with RDS, Lambda, or EC2)
- Describe AWS responsibilities
- Identify where to find AWS compliance information: Locations of lists of recognized available compliance controls (for example, HIPPA, SOCs), Recognize that compliance requirements vary among AWS services
- At a high level, describe how customers achieve compliance on AWS
- Identify different encryption options on AWS (for example, In transit, At rest)
- Describe who enables encryption on AWS for a given service
- Recognize there are services that will aid in auditing and reporting: Recognize that logs exist for auditing and monitoring (do not have to understand the logs), Define Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config, and AWS CloudTrail
- Explain the concept of least privileged access
- Understand the purpose of User and Identity Management: Access keys and password policies (rotation, complexity), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM): Groups/users, Roles, Policies, managed policies compared to custom policies
- Tasks that require use of root accounts
- Protection of root accounts
- Recognize there are different network security capabilities
- Native AWS services (for example, security groups, Network ACLs, AWS WAF)
- 3rd party security products from the AWS Marketplace
- Recognize there is documentation and where to find it (for example, best practices, whitepapers, official documents)
- AWS Knowledge Center, Security Center, security forum, and security blogs
- Partner Systems Integrators
- Know that security checks are a component of AWS Trusted Advisor
- Identify at a high level different ways of provisioning and operating in the AWS cloud
- Programmatic access, APIs, SDKs, AWS Management Console, CLI, Infrastructure as Code
- Identify different types of cloud deployment models: All in with cloud/cloud native, Hybrid, On-premises
- Identify connectivity options: VPN, AWS Direct Connect, Public internet
- Describe the relationships among Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
- Describe how to achieve high availability through the use of multiple Availability Zones
- Recall that high availability is achieved by using multiple Availability Zones
- Recognize that Availability Zones do not share single points of failure
- Describe when to consider the use of multiple AWS Regions: Disaster recovery/business continuity, Low latency for end-users, Data sovereignty
- Describe at a high level the benefits of Edge Locations: Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator
- Describe the categories of services on AWS (compute, storage, network, database)
- Identify AWS compute services
- Recognize there are different compute families
- Recognize the different services that provide compute (for example, AWS Lambda compared to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), or Amazon EC2, etc.)
- Recognize that elasticity is achieved through Auto Scaling
- Identify the purpose of load balancers
- Identify different AWS storage services: Describe Amazon S3, Describe Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Describe Amazon S3 Glacier, Describe AWS Snowball, Describe Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), Describe AWS Storage Gateway
- Identify AWS networking services
- Identify VPC
- Identify security groups
- Identify the purpose of Amazon Route 53
- Identify VPN, AWS Direct Connect
- Identify different AWS database services
- Install databases on Amazon EC2 compared to AWS managed databases
- Identify Amazon RDS
- Identify Amazon DynamoDB
- Identify Amazon Redshift
- Recognize there is documentation (best practices, whitepapers, AWS Knowledge Center, forums, blogs)
- Identify the various levels and scope of AWS support: AWS Abuse, AWS support cases, Premium support, Technical Account Managers
- Recognize there is a partner network (marketplace, third-party) including Independent Software Vendors and System Integrators
- Identify sources of AWS technical assistance and knowledge including professional services, solution architects, training and certification, and the Amazon Partner Network
- Identify the benefits of using AWS Trusted Advisor
- Identify scenarios/best fit for On-Demand Instance pricing
- Identify scenarios/best fit for Reserved-Instance pricing
- Describe Reserved-Instances flexibility
- Describe Reserved-Instances behavior in AWS Organizations
- Identify scenarios/best fit for Spot Instance pricing
- Recognize that consolidated billing is a feature of AWS Organizations
- Identify how multiple accounts aid in allocating costs across departments
- Identify ways to get billing support and information
- Cost Explorer, AWS Cost and Usage Report, Amazon QuickSight, third-party partners, and AWS Marketplace tools
- Open a billing support case
- The role of the Concierge for AWS Enterprise Support Plan customers
- Identify where to find pricing information on AWS services: AWS Simple Monthly Calculator, AWS Services product pages, AWS Pricing API
- Recognize that alarms/alerts exist
- Identify how tags are used in cost allocation
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