AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

CLF-C01 Free Full Course With Study Guides and Practice Questions

CLF-C01 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification is the first and most important certification for anyone who is just starting with AWS.

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Episode 0: Course Overview
Episode 1: Define AWS Cloud and its Value Proposition
Episode 2: Explain the Economies of Scale
Episode 3: Identify aspects of AWS Cloud economics
Episode 4: Explain the different cloud architecture design principles
Episode 5: Define the AWS shared responsibility model
Episode 6: Define AWS Cloud security and compliance concepts
Episode 7: Identify AWS access management capabilities
Episode 8: Identify resources for security support

Course Overview

Episode 00: Course Overview

Domain 1: Cloud Concepts

Episode 01: Define the AWS Cloud and its value proposition

1.  Key Concepts
  - - Explain what cloud computing is.
    - Define the benefits of the AWS cloud including: security, reliability, availability, elasticity, agility, scalability, pay as you go pricing and global reach.
    - Explain how the AWS cloud allows users to focus on business value.
2.  Reference Materials
  - - AWS: Core Concepts
    - AWS: What is Cloud Computing
3.  Study Guide
  - - Study Cheat Sheet
    - Practice Questions
Episode 02: Explain the economies of scale
1.  Key Concepts
  - - Explain what economies of scale is.
2.  Reference Materials
  - - AWS: Six Advantages of Cloud Computing
    - Wikipedia: What is economies of scale
3.  Study Guide
  - - Study Cheat Sheet
    - Practice Questions
Episode 03: Identify aspects of AWS Cloud economics
1.  Key Concepts
  - - Define items that would be part of a Total Cost of Ownership proposal
    - Understand the role of operational expenses (OpEx) vs 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
2.  Reference Materials
  - - AWS: Cloud Economics
    - Blog: OpEx vs CapEx
3.  Study Guide
  - - Study Cheat Sheet
    - Practice Questions

Episode 04: Explain the different cloud architecture design principles
1.  Key Concepts
  - - Explain the concept design for failure
    - Compare decouple components versus monolithic architecture
    - Explain the difference between implementing elasticity in the cloud versus on-premises
    - Explain the concept think parallel
2.  Reference Materials
  - - AWS: Cloud Design Principles
    - Wiki: List of different cloud architecture design principles
3.  Study Guide
  - - Study Cheat Sheet
    - Practice Questions

Domain 2: Security and Compliance

Episode 05: Define the AWS shared responsibility model

1.  Key Concepts
  - - Recognize the elements of the Shared Responsibility Model
    - Describe how the customer’s responsibilities may shift depending on the service used
      (for example with RDS, Lambda, or EC2)
    - Describe AWS responsibilities
2.  Reference Materials
  - - AWS: Shared Responsibility Model
3.  Study Guide
  - - Study Cheat Sheet
    - Practice Questions
Episode 06: Define AWS Cloud security and compliance concepts
1.  Key Concepts
  - - Identify where to find AWS compliance information
    - At a high level, describe how customers achieve compliance on AWS
    - Describe who enables encryption on AWS for a given service
    - Recognize that there are services that will aid in auditing and reporting (CloudWatch, AWS Config, CloudTrail)
    - Explain the concept of least privileged access
2.  Reference Materials
  - - AWS: AWS Compliance Resources
    - AWS: AWS Risk and Compliance Whitepapers
    - AWS: CloudWatch, AWS Config, CloudTrail
3.  Study Guide
  - - Study Cheat Sheet
    - Practice Questions
Episode 07: Identify AWS access management capabilities
1.  Key Concepts
  - - Understand the purpose of User and Identity Management including:
    - Access keys and password policies (rotation, complexity)
    - Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
    - AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
    - Tasks that require use of root accounts and protection of root accounts
2.  Reference Materials
  - - AWS: AWS IAM
    - AWS: AWS MFA
    - AWS: Root Account Best Practices
3.  Study Guide
  - - Study Cheat Sheet
    - Practice Questions

Episode 08: Identify resources for security support
1.  Key Concepts
  - - Recognize that there are different network security capabilities (Native AWS Services vs 3rd Party)
    - Recognize there is documentation and where to find it (for example, best practices,
      whitepapers, official documents)
    - Know that security checks are a component of AWS Trusted Advisor
2.  Reference Materials
  - - AWS: AWS Security Blog
    - AWS: Partner Systems Integrators
    - AWS: AWS Trusted Advisor
3.  Study Guide
  - - Study Cheat Sheet
    - Practice Questions

Domain 3: Technology

Episode 09: Define methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud

1.  Key Concepts
  - - Identify at a high level different ways of provisioning and operating in the AWS cloud
    - Identify different types of cloud deployment models
    - Identify connectivity options
2.  Reference Materials
  - - AWS: Types of Cloud Computing
    - AWS: Connectivity Options
3.  Study Guide
  - - Study Cheat Sheet
    - Practice Questions
Episode 10: Define the AWS global infrastructure
1.  Key Concepts
  - - Describe the relationships among Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
    - Describe how to achieve high availability through the use of multiple Availability Zones
    - Describe when to consider the use of multiple AWS Regions
    - Recognize that there are services that will aid in auditing and reporting (CloudWatch, AWS Config, CloudTrail)
    - Describe at a high level the benefits of Edge Locations
2.  Reference Materials
  - - AWS: High Availability and Scalability on AWS
    - AWS: AWS Global Infrastructure
3.  Study Guide
  - - Study Cheat Sheet
    - Practice Questions
Episode 11: Identify the core AWS Services
1.  Key Concepts
  - - Describe the categories of services on AWS (compute, storage, network, database)
    - Identify AWS compute services
    - Identify different AWS storage services
    - Identify AWS networking services
    - Identify different AWS database services
2.  Reference Materials
  - - AWS: AWS Compute Services
    - AWS: AWS Storage Services
    - AWS: AWS Networking Services
    - AWS: AWS Database Services
3.  Study Guide
  - - Study Cheat Sheet
    - Practice Questions

Episode 08: Identify resources for security support
1.  Key Concepts
  - - Recognize that there are different network security capabilities (Native AWS Services vs 3rd Party)
    - Recognize there is documentation and where to find it (for example, best practices,
      whitepapers, official documents)
    - Know that security checks are a component of AWS Trusted Advisor
2.  Reference Materials
  - - AWS: AWS Security Blog
    - AWS: Partner Systems Integrators
    - AWS: AWS Trusted Advisor
3.  Study Guide
  - - Study Cheat Sheet
    - Practice Questions