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AWS Certified
Cloud Practitioner Certification
Exam Content
If you are
planning to appear for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam then this article
will provide you complete and comprehensive guide of all the aspects which you
can expect with in this exam.
As you are
aware, the in current days Cloud Computing is one of the biggest industries in
Information Technology. Every sector and industry either harnessing the power
of cloud computing or planning to do so.
AWS
Certified Cloud Practitioner exam is on of the foundational level exam which
will validate the candidate knowledge, skills and abilities to demonstrate
basic knowledge of the AWS platform, including available core services and
their common use case. Following roles but not limited to this list can go for
this certification:
v Students
v Educators
v Individual exploring AWS Cloud
v Project Managers
v IT Managers
v Sales Managers
v Decision Makers
Exam
validates candidate's ability on topics:
v Define what the AWS Cloud is and the
basic global infrastructure
v Describe basic AWS Cloud
architectural principles
v Describe the AWS Cloud value
proposition
v Describe key services on the AWS
platform and their common use cases
v Describe basic security and
compliance aspects of the AWS platform and the shared security model
v Define the billing account
management and pricing models
v Identify sources of documentation or
technical assistance
v Describe basic/core characteristics
of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud
Recommended
Exam Prerequisites
AWS recommended below mentioned basic criteria to be able to
take AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification exam:
v Minimum
6 months experience with AWS cloud concepts in any role.
v Understanding
of IT services and their application in AWS Cloud platform.
Question
Type
There are two types of questions on the examination:
v Multiple
choice: Has one correct response and
three incorrect responses (distractors).
v Multiple
response: Has two or more correct responses out of five or more options.
Exam
Duration
v Exam
is 90 minutes
Exam Fee
v USD 100 + Applicable Taxes
Passing
Marks
v AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
examination is a pass or fail exam.
v Results for the examination are
reported as a score from 100–1000 with a minimum passing score of 700.
v Score report contains
classifications of your performance at each section level.
v You do not need to “pass” the
individual sections.
AWS Cloud Practitioner - Subject Areas
The content for AWS Certified Cloud
Practitioner Certification exam has been categorized into four subject areas:
Subject Areas |
% Of Examination |
1: Cloud Concepts |
26% |
2: Security and Compliance |
25% |
3: Technology |
33% |
4: Billing and Pricing |
16% |
Cloud
Concepts:
Following
are the topics which comes under Cloud Concepts subject area:
v
AWS
well-architected Framework
v
Benefit
of cloud computing
v
Fault
Tolerance
v
High
Availability
v
Scalability
v
Elasticity
v
AWS Global Infrastructure (Region, Availability
Zone, Data Centre, Edge Location)
Security
and Compliance
Following
are the topics which comes under Security and Compliance subject area:
v IAM- (User, Group, Role &
Policy) Password policies and MFA
v DDoS Protection
v CloudWatch
v Cloud Logs
v CloudTrail
v Trusted Advisor
v AWS Shield
v AWS Config
v Shared Responsibility Model
v VPC, VPC Subnet, Security Group,
NACL
v AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
Technology:
Following
are the topics which comes under Technology subject area:
v Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
v Simple Storage Service (S3)
v Relation Database Service (RDS)
v Serverless Compute (Lambda)
v CloudFront
v Route 53
v Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
v Simple Notification Service (SNS)
v AWS Code Commit
v AWS Code Build
v AWS Code Deploy
v AWS Code Pipeline
v Direct Connect
v VPN Gateway
v Bastion
Host
v Amazon
Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
v Amazon
Athena
v Amazon
Rekognition
v Amazon
Lightshell
v Amazon
Snowball
Billing
and Pricing:
Following
are the topics which comes under Billing and Pricing subject area:
v AWS Organization
v AWS Pricing Model:- How processes
and services are billed
v AWS Budget
v Cost Explorer
v AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Calculator
v AWS Pricing Calculator
v AWS Support Plan
v How to access AWS Whitepapers and Documentation
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