AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
This certification prep path provides a complete overview of the AWS Cloud, its core services, and foundational principles, designed to help you pass the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
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About this Path
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification is the starting point for your AWS journey. With no prior cloud experience required, this credential is ideal for individuals in technical, managerial, sales, or financial roles who need to build a foundational understanding of the AWS Cloud. Earning this certification validates your ability to articulate the business value of AWS, understand its core services, and explain its fundamental security, compliance, billing, and pricing models.
The exam will test your knowledge across four key domains outlined by AWS:
- Cloud Concepts: Understanding the value proposition of the AWS Cloud, the economics of the cloud, and core architectural principles.
- Security and Compliance: Defining the AWS Shared Responsibility Model and identifying key security services and compliance concepts.
- Cloud Technology and Services: Identifying core AWS services for compute, networking, storage, and databases.
- Billing, Pricing, and Support: Understanding AWS pricing models, account structures, and available support options.
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AWS CCP: Getting Started
Learn the foundational principles of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. This brief course introduces the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification.
AWS CCP: Fundamental Cloud Concepts
Learn the foundational principles of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. This AWS CCP course will teach you fundamental cloud concepts.
AWS CCP: Billing for AWS
Learn the foundational principles of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. This AWS CCP course will teach you billing for AWS.
AWS CCP: Cloud Security
Learn the foundational principles of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. This AWS CCP course will teach you fundamental security concepts of AWS.
AWS CCP: AWS Core Services
Learn the foundational principles of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. This AWS CCP course will teach you AWS core services.
AWS CCP: Preparing for the Exam
Learn the foundational principles of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. This AWS CCP course will teach you how to prepare for the exam.
Practice
Exercise your problem-solving and creative thinking skills with security-centric puzzles
Build VPC Resources Manually
In this challenge, you will create a custom VPC with public and private subnets, and an Internet and NAT Gateway. You will then associate route tables with the correct subnets.
Configure an S3 Bucket and Website
In this challenge lab, you will create multiple S3 buckets, enable version control, server access logging, S3 encryption, public access, public website hosting, and will upload files to serve as a static website.
Implement Elastic Load Balancing Between EC2 Instances Lab
In this lab, students will configure two EC2 instances as web servers. Students will then create a target group and create a load balancer for the EC2 instances.
Create EC2 Instances by Using Auto Scaling Lab
In this lab, students will create a security group and configure a launch template. Students will then create an Auto Scaling group.
Implement the Simple Storage Service Lab
In this lab, students will create an S3 bucket and then enable cross-region replication (CRR). Students will then add resources to the bucket and verify access to the bucket.
Connect to an EC2 Instance by Using RDP
Gain hands-on experience creating a Windows Server virtual machine by using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Lab activities include: creating a new key pair to decrypt the password for an EC2 instance, creating a security group to allow access, and creating and connecting to an EC2 instance using an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and RDP.
Configure a NoSQL Database by Using Amazon DynamoDB
Create an Amazon DynamoDB table that will be used to access data for a Python application. Lab activities include: creating an IAM policy to allow access to a DynamoDB table, installing the Boto3 and pandas Python libraries in the AppServer instance, and connecting to an Amazon EC2 instance to test access to the table from the Python application.
Create a Scalable Website That Uses an Elastic Load Balancer
Gain hands-on experience creating a scalable website. Lab activities include: creating security groups for a load balancer and an Auto Scaling group, creating a launch template that you will use to create Amazon EC2 instances, attaching a new load balancer to a Auto Scaling group, and connecting to the website through the load balancer.
Monitor Applications by Using CloudWatch
Gain hands-on experience monitoring applications by using an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard. Lab activities include: connecting to the web servers that are running behind a load balancer, creating a CloudWatch metric filter for errors on each web server, and creating a custom CloudWatch dashboard to display the memory, CPU, and load balancer metrics.
Prove
Assess your knowledge and skills to identify areas for improvement and measure your growth
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner practice test helps students prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification examination. This exam verifies the student's knowledge in the shared responsibility model and fundamental AWS services, like Shield, IAM, S3, EC2, and AWS billing.
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Get Hands-on Learning
Put your skills to the test in virtual labs, challenges, and simulated environments.
Measure Your Progress
Track your skills development from lesson to lesson using the Cybrary Skills Tracker.
Connect with the Community
Connect with peers and mentors through our supportive community of cybersecurity professionals.
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Frequently Asked Questions
This certification prep path is designed for early career practitioners who are interested in earning their Certified Cloud Practitioner certification.
This certification prep path is aligned with the CLF-C01 version of AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
