AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Interactive Course

Value proposition of the AWS Cloud

Understanding the economies of scale

Understanding the benefits of global infrastructure

Understanding the advantages of high availability, elasticity, and agility

AWS Well-Architected Framework

Understanding the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework

Cloud adoption strategies

Resources to support the cloud migration journey

Understanding the benefits of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (for example, reduced business risk; improved environmental, social, and governance performance; increased revenue; increased operational efficiency)

Identifying appropriate migration strategies

Aspects of cloud economics

Cost savings of moving to the cloud

Understanding the role of fixed costs compared with variable costs

Understanding costs that are associated with on-premises environments

Understanding the differences between licensing strategies

Understanding the concept of rightsizing

Identifying benefits of automation

Identifying managed AWS services

AWS shared responsibility model

Recognizing the components of the AWS shared responsibility model

Describing the customer’s responsibilities on AWS

Describing AWS responsibilities

Describing responsibilities that the customer and AWS share

Describing how AWS responsibilities and customer responsibilities can shift, depending on the service used

AWS compliance and governance concepts

Benefits of cloud security

Where to capture and locate logs that are associated with cloud security

Identifying where to find AWS compliance information

Understanding compliance needs among geographic locations or industries

Describing how customers secure resources on AWS

Identifying different encryption options

Recognizing services that aid in governance and compliance

Recognizing compliance requirements that vary among AWS services

Identity and access management

Importance of protecting the AWS root user account

Principle of least privilege

AWS IAM Identity Center

Understanding access keys, password policies, and credential storage

Identifying authentication methods in AWS

Defining groups, users, custom policies, and managed policies in compliance with the principle of least privilege

Identifying tasks that only the account root user can perform

Understanding which methods can achieve root user protection

Understanding the types of identity management

Security capabilities that AWS provides

Security-related documentation that AWS provides

Describing AWS security features and services

Understanding that third-party security products are available from AWS Marketplace

Identifying where AWS security information is available

Understanding the use of AWS services for identifying security issues

Different ways of provisioning and operating in the AWS Cloud

Different ways to access AWS services

Types of cloud deployment models

Connectivity options

Deciding between options such as programmatic access , the AWS Management Console, and infrastructure as code

Evaluating requirements to determine whether to use one-time operations or repeatable processes

Identifying different deployment models

Identifying connectivity options

AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations

High availability

Use of multiple Regions

Benefits of edge locations

AWS Wavelength Zones and AWS Local Zones

Describing relationships among Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations

Describing how to achieve high availability by using multiple Availability Zones

Recognizing that Availability Zones do not share single points of failure

Describing when to use multiple Regions

Describing at a high level the benefits of edge locations

AWS compute services

Recognizing the appropriate use of different EC2 instance types

Recognizing the appropriate use of different container options

Recognizing the appropriate use of different serverless compute options

Recognizing that auto scaling provides elasticity

Identifying the purposes of load balancers

AWS database services

Database migration

Deciding when to use EC2 hosted databases or AWS managed databases

Identifying relational databases

Identifying NoSQL databases

Identifying memory-based databases

Identifying database migration tools

AWS network services

Identifying the components of a VPC

Understanding security in a VPC

Understanding the purpose of Amazon Route 53

Identifying edge services

Identifying network connectivity options to AWS

AWS storage services

Identifying the uses for object storage

Recognizing the differences in Amazon S3 storage classes

Identifying block storage solutions

Identifying file services

Identifying cached file systems

Understanding use cases for lifecycle policies

Understanding use cases for AWS Backup

AWS AI/ML services

AWS analytics services

Understanding the different AI/ML services and the tasks that they accomplish

Identifying the services for data analytics

Application integration services of Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Simple Notification Service , and Amazon Simple Queue Service

Business application services of Amazon Connect and Amazon Simple Email Service

Customer engagement services of AWS Activate for Startups, AWS IQ, AWS Managed Services , and AWS Support

Developer tool services and capabilities of AWS AppConfig, AWS Cloud9, AWS CloudShell, AWS CodeArtifact, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeStar, and AWS X-Ray

End-user computing services of Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon WorkSpaces, and Amazon WorkSpaces Web

Frontend web and mobile services of AWS Amplify and AWS AppSync

IoT services of AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Greengrass

Choosing the appropriate service to deliver messages and to send alerts and notifications

Choosing the appropriate service to meet business application needs

Choosing the appropriate service for AWS customer support

Choosing the appropriate option for business support assistance

Identifying the tools to develop, deploy, and troubleshoot applications

Identifying the services that can present the output of virtual machines on end-user machines

Identifying the services that can create and deploy frontend and mobile services

Identifying the services that manage IoT devices

Compute purchasing options

Data transfer charges

Storage options and tiers

Identifying and comparing when to use various compute purchasing options

Describing Reserved Instance flexibility

Describing Reserved Instance behavior in AWS Organizations

Understanding incoming data transfer costs and outgoing data transfer costs

Understanding different pricing options for various storage options and tiers

Billing support and information

Pricing information for AWS services

AWS Organizations

AWS cost allocation tags

Understanding the appropriate uses and capabilities of AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Explorer, and AWS Billing Conductor

Understanding the appropriate uses and capabilities of AWS Pricing Calculator

Understanding AWS Organizations consolidated billing and allocation of costs

Understanding various types of cost allocation tags and their relation to billing reports

Resources and documentation available on official AWS websites

AWS Support plans

Role of the AWS Partner Network, including independent software vendors and system integrators

AWS Support Center

Locating AWS whitepapers, blogs, and documentation on official AWS websites

Identifying and locating AWS technical resources

Identifying AWS Support options for AWS customers

Identifying the role of Trusted Advisor, AWS Health Dashboard, and the AWS Health API to help manage and monitor environments for cost optimization

Identifying the role of the AWS Trust and Safety team to report abuse of AWS resources

Understanding the role of AWS Partners

Identifying the benefits of being an AWS Partner

Identifying the key services that AWS Marketplace offers

Identifying technical assistance options available at AWS