CLF-C02 Cloud Concepts Practice Question
A company's leadership team wants a structured framework for planning their AWS cloud migration that addresses organisational change management, skills development, governance, platform, security, and operations. Which AWS framework provides guidance across these perspectives?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many candidates confuse the AWS Well-Architected Framework (which is about optimizing existing architectures) with the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (which is about planning and executing the migration journey itself), leading them to select Option A instead of the correct Option B.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) is specifically designed to guide organizations through their cloud migration journey by providing structured guidance across six core perspectives: Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security, and Operations. This framework directly addresses the leadership team's requirements for organizational change management, skills development, governance, platform, security, and operations, making it the correct choice.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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AWS Well-Architected Framework
Why it's wrong here
The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a technical design checklist that evaluates cloud architectures against six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. It is applied to existing or planned workloads to improve architectural quality, but it does not address organizational readiness, stakeholder alignment, or the phased migration strategy that define cloud adoption. Thus, while complementary, it is not the framework that guides a multi-perspective adoption journey.
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
Why this is correct
The AWS CAF provides a structured approach to cloud adoption with six perspectives: Business (value realisation), People (culture and skills), Governance (risk and compliance), Platform (technical infrastructure), Security (protection), and Operations (running and managing cloud services).
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AWS Migration Hub
Why it's wrong here
AWS Migration Hub is a service that aggregates and tracks the status of application migrations from on-premises environments to AWS, providing visibility across multiple migration tools. It operates at the tactical execution layer, letting users monitor discovery, replication, and cutover progress, but it presupposes that the decision to migrate and the overall adoption strategy already exist. Migration Hub does not offer guidance across business, people, governance, security, platform, and operations perspectives, so it cannot serve as the adoption framework.
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AWS Trusted Advisor
Why it's wrong here
AWS Trusted Advisor is a real-time optimization service that inspects an AWS account's resources against best practices for cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits. It generates recommendations to improve the efficiency and security of already-deployed workloads, but it is not a planning framework for an organization's cloud adoption journey. Trusted Advisor operates on the existing account state and does not help define the strategic capabilities needed to migrate or transform; therefore, it is not the correct framework.
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