Introduction
The AWS Certfed Cloud Practtoner (CLF-C01) examnaton s ntended for ndvduals who have the knowledge, sklls, and abltes to demonstrate basc knowledge of the AWS platform, ncludng: avalable servces and ther common use cases, AWS Cloud archtectural prncples (at the conceptual level), account securty, and complance.
The canddate wll demonstrate an understandng of AWS Cloud economcs ncludng: costs, bllng, and analyss, and the value proposton of the AWS Cloud.
It valdates an examnees ablty to:
a) Explain the value of the AWS Cloud.
b) Understand and explain the AWS shared responsibility model.
c) Understand AWS Cloud security best practices.
d) Understand AWS Cloud costs, economics, and billing practices.
e) Describe and position the core AWS services, including compute, network, databases, and storage.
f) Identify AWS services for common use cases.
Recommended AWS Knowledge
It s recommended that canddates have at least 6 months of experence wth the AWS Cloud n any role, ncludng tradtonal and non-tradtonal students, educators, and ndvduals explorng the AWS Cloud, ncludng project managers, IT managers, sales managers, decson makers, and marketers, as well as those workng n fnance, procurement, and legal departments.
Recommended General IT Knowledge
Canddates should have a basc understandng of IT servces and ther uses n the AWS Cloud platform.
Exam Content
Response Types
There are two types of questons on the examnaton:
a) Multiple choice: Has one correct response and three incorrect responses (distractors).
b) Multiple response: Has two or more correct responses out of five or more options.
Select one or more responses that best complete the statement or answer the queston. Dstractors, or ncorrect answers, are response optons that an examnee wth ncomplete knowledge or skll would lkely choose. However, they are generally plausble responses that ft n the content area defned by the test objectve. Unanswered questons are scored as ncorrect; there s no penalty for guessng..
Unscored Content
Your examnaton may nclude unscored tems that are placed on the test to gather statstcal nformaton. These tems are not dentfed on the form and do not affect your score.
Exam Results
The AWS Certfed Cloud Practtoner (CLF-C01) examnaton s a pass or fal exam. The examnaton s scored aganst a mnmum standard establshed by AWS professonals who are guded by certfcaton ndustry best practces and gudelnes. Your results for the examnaton are reported as a score from 1001,000, wth a mnmum passng score of 700. Your score shows how you performed on the examnaton as a whole and whether or not you passed. Scaled scorng models are used to equate scores across multple exam forms that may have slghtly dfferent dffculty levels. Your score report contans a table of classfcatons of your performance at each secton level. Ths nformaton s desgned to provde general feedback concernng your examnaton performance. The examnaton uses a compensatory scorng model, whch means that you do not need to pass the ndvdual sectons, only the overall examnaton. Each secton of the examnaton has a specfc weghtng, so some sectons have more questons than others. The table contans general nformaton, hghlghtng your strengths and weaknesses. Exercse cauton when nterpretng secton-level feedback.
Content Outline
Ths exam gude ncludes weghtngs, test domans, and objectves only. It s not a comprehensve lstng of the content on ths examnaton. The table below lsts the man content domans and ther weghtngs.
Doman 1: Cloud Concepts 26%
Doman 2: Securty and Complance 25%
Doman 3: Technology 33%
Doman 4: Bllng and Prcng 16%
TOTAL 100%
Doman 1: Cloud Concepts
1.1 Defne the AWS Cloud and ts value proposton
1.2 Identfy aspects of AWS Cloud economcs
1.3 Lst the dfferent cloud archtecture desgn prncples
Doman 2: Securty and Complance
2.1 Defne the AWS shared responsblty model
2.2 Defne AWS Cloud securty and complance concepts
2.3 Identfy AWS access management capabltes
2.4 Identfy resources for securty support
Doman 3: Technology
3.1 Defne methods of deployng and operatng n the AWS Cloud
3.2 Defne the AWS global nfrastructure
3.3 Identfy the core AWS servces
3.4 Identfy resources for technology support
Doman 4: Bllng and Prcng
4.1 Compare and contrast the varous prcng models for AWS
4.2 Recognze the varous account structures n relaton to AWS bllng and prcng
4.3 Identfy resources avalable for bllng support
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner: Test 1
Question 1:
Whch tems can be confgured from wthn the VPC management console? (Select TWO.)
- Regions
- Load Balancing
- Security Groups
- Subnets
- Auto Scaling
Correct Answer(s): 3, 4
Explanation:
Subnets and Securty groups can be confgured from wthn the VPC console.
CORRECT: "Subnets" s the correct answer.
CORRECT: "Securty Groups" s the correct answer.
INCORRECT: "Regons" s ncorrect. Regons are not confgured, resources wthn regons are confgured.
INCORRECT: "Load Balancng" s ncorrect. Load balancng s confgured from the EC2 console.
INCORRECT: "Auto Scalng" s ncorrect. Auto scalng s confgured from the EC2 console.
References:
https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/
Question 2:
Whch benefit of the AWS Cloud elmnates the need for users to try estmatng future nfrastructure usage?
- Economies of scale
- Easy global deployments
- Security of the AWS Cloud
- Elasticity of the AWS Cloud
Correct Answer(s): 4
Explanation:
Elastcty means that your nfrastructure scales based on actual usage. When you have hgher demand you use more nfrastructure and pay more and when you have less demand you need less nfrastructure and pay less. The benefts are you dont need to guess about capacty and pay only for what you actually need.
CORRECT: "Elastcty of the AWS Cloud" s the correct answer.
INCORRECT: "Easy global deployments" s ncorrect. It s easy to deploy many AWS resources globally but ths beneft does not elmnate the need to estmate future usage.
INCORRECT: "Securty of the AWS Cloud" s ncorrect. The securty of the AWS Cloud s mportant but does not elmnate the need to estmate future usage.
INCORRECT: "Economes of scale" s ncorrect. Ths means you pay less for some resources because of the benefts of AWSs scale. However, ths beneft does not elmnate the need to estmate future usage.
References:
https://wa.aws.amazon.com/wat.concept.elastcty.en.html
Question 3:
Whch AWS support plan should you use f you need a response tme of < 15 mnutes for a busness-crtcal system falure?
- Basic
- Developer
- Business
- Enterprise
Correct Answer(s): 4
Explanation:
Only the Enterprse plan provdes a response tme of < 15 mnutes for the falure of a busness-crtcal system.
Both Busness and Enterprse offer < 1 hour response tme for the falure of a producton system.
CORRECT: "Enterprse" s the correct answer.