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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) exam objectives
Amazon Web Services publishes 4 exam domains with official weightings. The weight tells you where your marks come from — study time should roughly follow it.
CLF-C02FoundationalBeginner
1. Cloud Concepts
24%- The AWS Well-Architected Framework's six pillars and what each optimises for
- Benefits of cloud: elasticity, agility, economies of scale, trading capex for opex
- Cloud deployment models — all-in cloud, hybrid, on-premises
- Migration basics: the 7 Rs, AWS Snow Family for bulk transfer
2. Security and Compliance
30%- The shared responsibility model — where AWS's duty ends and yours begins, and how that line moves between EC2, RDS and Lambda
- IAM: users, groups, roles, policies, least privilege, root-account protection and MFA
- Compliance tooling: AWS Artifact for reports, Config for resource compliance, CloudTrail for audit trails
- Security services by purpose — GuardDuty, Inspector, Shield, WAF, Macie, KMS
3. Cloud Technology and Services
34%- Core compute, storage, database and networking services and when each is the right fit
- Global infrastructure: Regions, Availability Zones, edge locations and how they drive resilience
- Connectivity options — VPC basics, Direct Connect, VPN, Route 53, CloudFront
- Ways to interact with AWS: Management Console, CLI, SDKs, Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation
4. Billing, Pricing, and Support
12%- EC2 purchasing options — On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, Savings Plans — and the trade-off each makes
- Cost tooling: Cost Explorer, Budgets, Cost and Usage Report, the pricing calculator
- Consolidated billing and AWS Organizations
- Support plan tiers and what each unlocks, including when a Technical Account Manager is included
Our practice exam distributes its questions across these exact domains at these weightings — so your score per domain tells you precisely where you stand.
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