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Amazon Web Services · CLF-C02 · Foundational · Beginner

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, so your study time should roughly follow it.

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 spreads its questions across these exact domains at these weightings, so your score in each one tells you precisely where you stand.

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Domains and weightings as published by Amazon Web Services; last reviewed July 19, 2026.

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