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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AWS Cloud Overview
Objective 1.1 · Cloud Concepts
AWS Global Infrastructure
Objective 1.2 · Cloud Concepts
Benefits of AWS Cloud
Objective 1.1
IaaS, PaaS, SaaS on AWS
Objective 1.3 · Cloud Concepts
AWS Well-Architected Framework
Objective 1.4 · Cloud Concepts
AWS Cloud Economics and TCO
Objective 1.1
CapEx vs OpEx on AWS
Objective 1.1
Elasticity and Scalability on AWS
Objective 1.1
AWS Well-Architected Six Pillars Deep Dive
Objective 1.4
On-Premises vs AWS Cloud Trade-offs
Objective 1.1
Pay-as-You-Go Pricing Model
Objective 1.1
AWS Economies of Scale
Objective 1.1
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
Objective 1.3
Cloud Agility and Innovation on AWS
Objective 1.1
Hybrid Cloud with AWS
Objective 1.3
Disaster Recovery Concepts on AWS
Objective 1.4
High Availability on AWS
Objective 1.4
Fault Tolerance Concepts
Objective 1.4
AWS Migration Strategies (7 Rs)
Objective 1.3
Serverless Computing on AWS
Objective 1.2
AWS Global Reach Benefits
Objective 1.1
Multi-Region Strategy on AWS
Objective 1.2
Microservices on AWS
Objective 1.2
AWS Cloud Compliance Overview
Objective 1.4
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) on AWS
Objective 1.1
Avoiding AWS Vendor Lock-In
Objective 1.1
AWS Sustainability and Green Cloud
Objective 1.4
AWS Regions and Availability Zones Deep Dive
Objective 1.2
35 chapters
AWS Shared Responsibility Model
Objective 2.1 · Security Compliance
AWS IAM — Users, Groups, Roles, Policies
Objective 2.2 · Security Compliance
AWS Security Services Overview
Objective 2.3 · Security Compliance
AWS Compliance and Governance
Objective 2.4 · Security Compliance
Data Encryption on AWS
Objective 2.3
AWS Organizations and SCPs
Objective 2.2
AWS Artifact and AWS Config
Objective 2.4
AWS Multi-Factor Authentication
Objective 2.2
AWS Root Account Security Best Practices
Objective 2.2
AWS IAM Policies — Inline vs Managed
Objective 2.2
IAM Roles for AWS Services
Objective 2.2
IAM Permission Boundaries
Objective 2.2
AWS Security Token Service (STS)
Objective 2.2
AWS Identity Federation and SSO
Objective 2.2
Amazon Cognito
Objective 2.2
Amazon GuardDuty
Objective 2.3
Amazon Inspector
Objective 2.3
Amazon Macie
Objective 2.3
AWS Security Hub
Objective 2.3
Amazon Detective
Objective 2.3
AWS Shield — DDoS Protection
Objective 2.3
AWS WAF — Web Application Firewall
Objective 2.3
AWS Network Firewall
Objective 2.3
AWS Secrets Manager
Objective 2.3
AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
Objective 2.3
AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
Objective 2.3
AWS CloudHSM
Objective 2.3
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
Objective 2.3
AWS CloudTrail Deep Dive
Objective 2.4
AWS Config Rules and Compliance
Objective 2.4
AWS IAM Access Analyzer
Objective 2.2
AWS Penetration Testing Policy
Objective 2.4
Security Pillar — Well-Architected
Objective 2.1
AWS Compliance Programs (PCI, HIPAA, SOC)
Objective 2.4
Non-Compliance Risks on AWS
Objective 2.4
53 chapters
Amazon EC2
Objective 3.1 · Cloud Technology Services
AWS Lambda (Serverless)
Objective 3.1
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Objective 3.1
Amazon S3
Objective 3.2 · Cloud Technology Services
AWS Storage Services Comparison
Objective 3.2
AWS Database Services
Objective 3.3 · Cloud Technology Services
RDS vs DynamoDB
Objective 3.3
Amazon VPC
Objective 3.4 · Cloud Technology Services
Amazon CloudFront and Route 53
Objective 3.4
AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail
Objective 3.5 · Cloud Technology Services
AWS Migration Services
Objective 3.6 · Cloud Technology Services
EC2 Instance Types and Families
Objective 3.1
EC2 Pricing Models — On-Demand, Reserved, Spot
Objective 3.1
AWS Auto Scaling
Objective 3.1
Elastic Load Balancing — ALB vs NLB
Objective 3.1
Amazon ECS — Container Service
Objective 3.1
AWS Fargate — Serverless Containers
Objective 3.1
Amazon EKS Overview
Objective 3.1
Amazon Lightsail
Objective 3.1
AWS Outposts — Hybrid Infrastructure
Objective 3.1
S3 Storage Classes — Standard to Glacier
Objective 3.2
S3 Lifecycle Policies
Objective 3.2
Amazon EBS Volume Types
Objective 3.2
Amazon EFS — Elastic File System
Objective 3.2
Amazon S3 Glacier and Deep Archive
Objective 3.2
AWS Storage Gateway
Objective 3.2
AWS DataSync
Objective 3.2
Amazon Aurora
Objective 3.3
Amazon ElastiCache
Objective 3.3
Amazon Redshift
Objective 3.3
Amazon DocumentDB
Objective 3.3
Amazon RDS Deep Dive
Objective 3.3
Route 53 Routing Policies
Objective 3.4
CloudFront Deep Dive
Objective 3.4
Amazon API Gateway
Objective 3.4
AWS Direct Connect
Objective 3.4
AWS Transit Gateway
Objective 3.4
Amazon VPC Deep Dive
Objective 3.4
Amazon SNS — Simple Notification Service
Objective 3.5
Amazon SQS — Simple Queue Service
Objective 3.5
Amazon Kinesis — Real-Time Streaming
Objective 3.5
CloudWatch Alarms and Dashboards
Objective 3.5
AWS CloudFormation
Objective 3.5
AWS Glue — ETL Service
Objective 3.5
Amazon Athena
Objective 3.5
AWS Step Functions
Objective 3.5
AWS CodePipeline and CI/CD Services
Objective 3.5
Service Control Policies and SCPs
Objective 3.1
AWS AI/ML Services Overview
Objective 3.5
AWS IoT Services Overview
Objective 3.5
VMware Cloud on AWS
Objective 3.1
AWS Wavelength and Local Zones
Objective 3.4
AWS Service Quotas and Limits
Objective 3.5
14 chapters
AWS Pricing Models
Objective 4.1 · Billing Pricing Support
AWS Free Tier
Objective 4.1
AWS Cost Explorer and Budgets
Objective 4.2 · Billing Pricing Support
AWS Support Plans
Objective 4.3 · Billing Pricing Support
AWS Trusted Advisor
Objective 4.3
AWS Billing Dashboard
Objective 4.2
AWS Cost Allocation Tags
Objective 4.2
AWS Savings Plans vs Reserved Instances
Objective 4.1
AWS Consolidated Billing with Organizations
Objective 4.2
AWS Marketplace
Objective 4.3
AWS Pricing Calculator
Objective 4.1
AWS TCO Calculator
Objective 4.1
AWS Partner Network (APN)
Objective 4.3
AWS Basic vs Premium Support Plans
Objective 4.3
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