SECTION 1

Introduction
Exam Guide
Exam Guide
Recommended knowledge:
Ø At least 6 months experience with AWS Cloud in any role
including technical, managerial, sales, purchasing or financial
– not necessary for this course!
AWS Whitepapers (removed from exam guide, but
recommended):
Ø Overview of Amazon Web Services whitepaper
Ø Architecting for the Cloud: AWS Best Practices whitepaper
Ø How AWS Pricing Works whitepaper
Ø Cost Management in the AWS Cloud whitepaper
Exam Guide
Time and Length:
Ø 90 minutes
Ø 65 questions – don’t worry, most questions are very
straightforward!
Scoring:
Ø Scaled score between 100 – 1000
Ø Minimum passing score of 700
Question format:
Ø Multiple-choice: Has one correct response and three incorrect
responses
Ø Multiple-response: Has two or more correct responses out of five
Exam Guide
Domain 1: Cloud Concepts
Ø 1.1 Define the AWS Cloud and its value proposition
Ø 1.2 Identify aspects of AWS Cloud economics
Ø 1.3 List the different cloud architecture design principles
Domain 2: Security
Ø 2.1 Define the AWS Shared Responsibility model
Ø 2.2 Define AWS Cloud security and compliance concepts
Ø 2.3 Identify AWS access management capabilities
Ø 2.4 Identify resources for security support
Exam Guide
Domain 3: Technology
Ø 3.1 Define methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud
Ø 3.2 Define the AWS global infrastructure
Ø 3.3 Identify the core AWS services
Ø 3.4 Identify resources for technology support
Domain 4: Billing and Pricing
Ø 4.1 Compare and contrast the various pricing models for AWS
Ø 4.2 Recognize the various account structures in relation to AWS
billing and pricing
Ø 4.3 Identify resources available for billing support
Exam Guide

Domain % of Examination
Domain 1: Cloud Concepts 26%

Domain 2: Security and Compliance 25%

Domain 3: Technology 33%

Domain 4: Billing and Pricing 16%

TOTAL: 100%
 Domain 1: Cloud Concepts
Mapping Services to the Exam Guide Ø 1.1 Define the AWS Cloud and its value proposition
Ø 1.2 Identify aspects of AWS Cloud economics
Ø 1.3 List the different cloud architecture design principles
Domain 2: Security
Amazon EC2 Ø 2.1 Define the AWS Shared Responsibility model
Ø 2.2 Define AWS Cloud security and compliance concepts
Ø 2.3 Identify AWS access management capabilities
Ø 2.4 Identify resources for security support
Domain 3: Technology
Ø 3.1 Define methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud
Ø 3.2 Define the AWS global infrastructure
Ø 3.3 Identify the core AWS services
Ø 3.4 Identify resources for technology support
Domain 4: Billing and Pricing
Ø 4.1 Compare and contrast the various pricing models for AWS
Ø 4.2 Recognize the various account structures in relation to AWS
billing and pricing
Ø 4.3 Identify resources available for billing support
 SECTION 2
AWS Cloud Benefits
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) Exam Guide
Domain 1: Cloud Concepts
Ø 1.1 Define the AWS Cloud and its value proposition
Ø 1.2 Identify aspects of AWS Cloud economics
Ø 1.3 List the different cloud architecture design principles
Domain 2: Security
Ø 2.1 Define the AWS Shared Responsibility model
Ø 2.2 Define AWS Cloud security and compliance concepts
Ø 2.3 Identify AWS access management capabilities
Ø 2.4 Identify resources for security support
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) Exam Guide
Domain 3: Technology
Ø 3.1 Define methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud
Ø 3.2 Define the AWS global infrastructure
Ø 3.3 Identify the core AWS services
Ø 3.4 Identify resources for technology support
Domain 4: Billing and Pricing
Ø 4.1 Compare and contrast the various pricing models for AWS
Ø 4.2 Recognize the various account structures in relation to AWS billing and pricing
Ø 4.3 Identify resources available for billing support
The 6 Advantages of Cloud

Name Description
1 Trade capital expense for variable expense Instead of investing in data centers before you know how you’re
going to use them, pay only when, and for how much, you consume
2 Benefit from massive economies of scale Achieve a lower variable cost due to AWS’ scale

3 Stop guessing about capacity Eliminate guessing, scale as demand dictates

4 Increase speed and agility Easily and quickly scale your usage

5 Stop spending money running and maintaining Focus on business growth and innovation instead!
data centers
6 Go global in minutes Easily deploy applications in multiple regions around the world

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-overview/six-advantages-of-cloud-computing.html
Example of Horizontal Scaling with EC2

3. ASG launches
extra instance

Availability Zone Availability Zone

Public subnet Public subnet

Auto Scaling group

2. CloudWatch
notifies ASG to
scale

Metrics Metrics
EC2 Instances EC2 Instances

1. Metric reports CPU

> 80% Amazon CloudWatch
Advantages of Cloud Technology
Ø Decrease your TCO: Eliminate many of the costs related to building and maintaining a
data center or colocation deployment. Pay for only the resources you consume.
Ø Reduce complexity: Reduce the need to manage infrastructure, investigate licensing
issues, or divert resources.
Ø Adjust capacity on the fly: Add or reduce resources, depending on seasonal business
needs, using infrastructure that is secure, reliable, and broadly accessible.
Ø Reduce time to market: Design and develop new IT projects faster.
Ø Deploy quickly, even worldwide: Deploy applications across multiple
Ø geographic areas.
Ø Increase efficiencies: Use automation to reduce or eliminate IT management
activities that waste time and resources.
Advantages of Cloud Technology
Ø Innovate more: Spin up a new server and try out an idea. Each project moves
through the funnel more quickly because the cloud makes it faster (and cheaper) to
deploy, test, and launch new products and services.
Ø Spend your resources strategically: Switch to a DevOps model to free your IT staff
from operations and maintenance that can be handled by the cloud services
provider.
Ø Enhance security: Spend less time conducting security reviews on infrastructure.
Mature cloud providers have teams of people who focus on security, offering best
practices to ensure you’re compliant, no matter what your industry.
Deployment Models – Private Cloud

Private Cloud
Benefits:
• Complete control of the entire stack
Data center • Security – in a few cases, organizations
may need to keep all or some of their
applications and data in house
Organization
Deployment Models – Public Cloud

Benefits:
• Variable expense, instead of capital expense
• Economies of scale
• Massive elasticity
Public Cloud

AWS Cloud

The Internet
Organization
Deployment Models – Hybrid Cloud

Benefits:
• Allows companies to keep the critical applications and sensitive data in a traditional data
center environment or private cloud
• Take advantage of public cloud resources like SaaS, for the latest applications, and IaaS, for
elastic virtual resources
• Facilitates portability of data, apps and services and more choices for deployment models

Public Cloud
Private Cloud
AWS Cloud

Data center

Organization The Internet

Architecting for the Cloud - Optimize for Cost
Ø Right Sizing – use the best instance sizes and number of instances for cost
efficiency
Ø Elasticity – horizontally scale as needed with changing demand
Ø Take Advantage of the Variety of Purchasing Options – use Reserved
Instances and Spot Instances
Scaling Horizontally with DynamoDB (elasticity)

Data is spread across

more partitions

DynamoDB Table DynamoDB Table

Increase throughput by adding

Read Capacity Units (RCUs) and
Write Capacity Units (WCUs)