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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02The Complete Beginner's Guide

Complete AWS Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 study guide — 130 chapters for beginners covering cloud concepts, AWS services, security, and billing.

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130 chapters covering every exam objective. Each chapter includes key concepts, exam tips, common traps, comparison tables, and a 5-question quiz at the end.

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Cloud Concepts (24%)

28 chapters

Domain overview

Security and Compliance (30%)

35 chapters

Domain overview
7

AWS Shared Responsibility Model

Objective 2.1 · Security Compliance

25m
8

AWS IAM — Users, Groups, Roles, Policies

Objective 2.2 · Security Compliance

25m
9

AWS Security Services Overview

Objective 2.3 · Security Compliance

25m
10

AWS Compliance and Governance

Objective 2.4 · Security Compliance

25m
11

Data Encryption on AWS

Objective 2.3

25m
12

AWS Organizations and SCPs

Objective 2.2

25m
13

AWS Artifact and AWS Config

Objective 2.4

25m
52

AWS Multi-Factor Authentication

Objective 2.2

25m
53

AWS Root Account Security Best Practices

Objective 2.2

25m
54

AWS IAM Policies — Inline vs Managed

Objective 2.2

25m
55

IAM Roles for AWS Services

Objective 2.2

25m
56

IAM Permission Boundaries

Objective 2.2

25m
57

AWS Security Token Service (STS)

Objective 2.2

25m
58

AWS Identity Federation and SSO

Objective 2.2

25m
59

Amazon Cognito

Objective 2.2

25m
60

Amazon GuardDuty

Objective 2.3

25m
61

Amazon Inspector

Objective 2.3

25m
62

Amazon Macie

Objective 2.3

25m
63

AWS Security Hub

Objective 2.3

25m
64

Amazon Detective

Objective 2.3

25m
65

AWS Shield — DDoS Protection

Objective 2.3

25m
66

AWS WAF — Web Application Firewall

Objective 2.3

25m
67

AWS Network Firewall

Objective 2.3

25m
68

AWS Secrets Manager

Objective 2.3

25m
69

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

Objective 2.3

25m
70

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

Objective 2.3

25m
71

AWS CloudHSM

Objective 2.3

25m
72

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

Objective 2.3

25m
73

AWS CloudTrail Deep Dive

Objective 2.4

25m
74

AWS Config Rules and Compliance

Objective 2.4

25m
75

AWS IAM Access Analyzer

Objective 2.2

25m
76

AWS Penetration Testing Policy

Objective 2.4

25m
77

Security Pillar — Well-Architected

Objective 2.1

25m
78

AWS Compliance Programs (PCI, HIPAA, SOC)

Objective 2.4

25m
79

Non-Compliance Risks on AWS

Objective 2.4

25m

Cloud Technology and Services (34%)

53 chapters

Domain overview
14

Amazon EC2

Objective 3.1 · Cloud Technology Services

25m
15

AWS Lambda (Serverless)

Objective 3.1

25m
16

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Objective 3.1

25m
17

Amazon S3

Objective 3.2 · Cloud Technology Services

25m
18

AWS Storage Services Comparison

Objective 3.2

25m
19

AWS Database Services

Objective 3.3 · Cloud Technology Services

25m
20

RDS vs DynamoDB

Objective 3.3

25m
21

Amazon VPC

Objective 3.4 · Cloud Technology Services

25m
22

Amazon CloudFront and Route 53

Objective 3.4

25m
23

AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail

Objective 3.5 · Cloud Technology Services

25m
24

AWS Migration Services

Objective 3.6 · Cloud Technology Services

25m
80

EC2 Instance Types and Families

Objective 3.1

25m
81

EC2 Pricing Models — On-Demand, Reserved, Spot

Objective 3.1

25m
82

AWS Auto Scaling

Objective 3.1

25m
83

Elastic Load Balancing — ALB vs NLB

Objective 3.1

25m
84

Amazon ECS — Container Service

Objective 3.1

25m
85

AWS Fargate — Serverless Containers

Objective 3.1

25m
86

Amazon EKS Overview

Objective 3.1

25m
87

Amazon Lightsail

Objective 3.1

25m
88

AWS Outposts — Hybrid Infrastructure

Objective 3.1

25m
89

S3 Storage Classes — Standard to Glacier

Objective 3.2

25m
90

S3 Lifecycle Policies

Objective 3.2

25m
91

Amazon EBS Volume Types

Objective 3.2

25m
92

Amazon EFS — Elastic File System

Objective 3.2

25m
93

Amazon S3 Glacier and Deep Archive

Objective 3.2

25m
94

AWS Storage Gateway

Objective 3.2

25m
95

AWS DataSync

Objective 3.2

25m
96

Amazon Aurora

Objective 3.3

25m
97

Amazon ElastiCache

Objective 3.3

25m
98

Amazon Redshift

Objective 3.3

25m
99

Amazon DocumentDB

Objective 3.3

25m
100

Amazon RDS Deep Dive

Objective 3.3

25m
101

Route 53 Routing Policies

Objective 3.4

25m
102

CloudFront Deep Dive

Objective 3.4

25m
103

Amazon API Gateway

Objective 3.4

25m
104

AWS Direct Connect

Objective 3.4

25m
105

AWS Transit Gateway

Objective 3.4

25m
106

Amazon VPC Deep Dive

Objective 3.4

25m
107

Amazon SNS — Simple Notification Service

Objective 3.5

25m
108

Amazon SQS — Simple Queue Service

Objective 3.5

25m
109

Amazon Kinesis — Real-Time Streaming

Objective 3.5

25m
110

CloudWatch Alarms and Dashboards

Objective 3.5

25m
111

AWS CloudFormation

Objective 3.5

25m
112

AWS Glue — ETL Service

Objective 3.5

25m
113

Amazon Athena

Objective 3.5

25m
114

AWS Step Functions

Objective 3.5

25m
115

AWS CodePipeline and CI/CD Services

Objective 3.5

25m
116

Service Control Policies and SCPs

Objective 3.1

25m
117

AWS AI/ML Services Overview

Objective 3.5

25m
118

AWS IoT Services Overview

Objective 3.5

25m
119

VMware Cloud on AWS

Objective 3.1

25m
120

AWS Wavelength and Local Zones

Objective 3.4

25m
121

AWS Service Quotas and Limits

Objective 3.5

25m

Billing, Pricing and Support (12%)

14 chapters

Domain overview

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