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Free AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) study guide
Everything Ranger's Cloud Kennel teaches for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02), as a guide you can read on any phone or computer: 14 chapters and 119 lessons in plain words, with pictures, exam tips, questions to check yourself and a recap with a memory trick at the end of each chapter.
Read a chapter here, then practice it in the game, where 563 more questions, drills and mock exams show you when you are ready.
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- 1Day 1: Why move the shop?What the cloud is, and what you get from it · Always on, everywhere, right now · Cloud economics · Spending smarter in the cloud · Cloud economics: what changes about…Objectives 1.1, 1.4
- 2Build it right: six pillarsThe AWS Well-Architected Framework · Four more pillars · Identifying differences between the pillarsObjectives 1.2
- 3The moving planThe AWS Cloud Adoption Framework · Six perspectives, six owners · Migration strategies: the seven Rs · Moving data and getting help · Cloud adoption: the AWS Cloud…Objectives 1.3
- 4Whose job is it?The AWS shared responsibility model · Shared controls · How the line shifts by service · Shared responsibility: AWS's half · How the line moves: EC2 vs RDS vs LambdaObjectives 2.1
- 5Lock the front doorThe root user · IAM: users, groups, roles and policies · Credentials and how they're stored · Sign-in options and identity types · How people and apps sign in to AWS ·…Objectives 2.3
- 6Who did that?Compliance and governance · Encryption: locks for data · Monitoring, auditing and access reports · Security logs: where to find them · Compliance and governance on AWS…Objectives 2.2
- 7Guard dogsGuards at the edge · Guards inside the yard · How customers secure resources on AWS · Advisors, marketplaces and where to read more · AWS security services at a glance…Objectives 2.4, 2.2
- 8Where the cloud livesRegions, Availability Zones and edge locations · High availability and multiple Regions · Ways to access and provision AWS · Deployment models and operating tools ·…Objectives 3.2, 3.1
- 9Picking the engineAmazon EC2 and instance types · Containers and serverless · Auto scaling and load balancing · AWS compute servicesObjectives 3.3
- 10Where orders are keptChoosing a database · NoSQL, memory and the rest of the database family · Database migration · Object, block and file storage · S3 storage classes and lifecycle…Objectives 3.4, 3.6
- 11Roads into the VPCInside a VPC · Connecting VPCs and services privately · Security in a VPC · Amazon Route 53 and the front doors · From the office to AWS · Inside a VPC · AWS networking…Objectives 3.5
- 12Smart helpersAI and machine learning services · Building your own and asking an assistant · Analytics services · Application integration and business apps · Tools for builders and…Objectives 3.7, 3.8
- 13Who left the big instance on?Paying for Amazon EC2 · Special cases: dedicated hardware and reserved capacity · Data transfer and storage pricing · Billing, budgets and cost tools · Tags, detailed…Objectives 4.1, 4.2
- 14Help is a call awayFree help on official AWS websites · AWS Support plans · Tools that watch your environment · Reporting abuse · People and partners · Whole-exam review: getting ready…Objectives 4.3
- A–ZGlossary367 terms and 136 acronyms, each linked to its lesson
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Is it really free?
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How is it organized?
It follows the official AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) exam objectives. Each chapter teaches a group of objectives, then gives you questions to check yourself and a recap with a memory trick.
How should I study with it?
Read a chapter, answer its questions before you open the answers, then play the same chapter in Ranger's Cloud Kennel: drills on what you missed, hands-on practice and timed mock exams show when you are ready.
Are these the real exam questions?
No. Real exam questions are kept secret. These are practice questions written to the published objectives, and every answer is explained.
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