Spending on public cloud services and infrastructure expected to go up from $330 billion in 2021 to approximately $1.3 trillion by 2025. Being the first public cloud service to market in 2006, AWS had a seven-year head start over its competition. Owning almost half the world’s public cloud infrastructure market, Amazon is the clear market leader.
An AWS certification is one of the most sought certifications in the cloud platform industry. The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) exam is intended for individuals who can effectively demonstrate an overall knowledge of the AWS Cloud independent of a specific job role.
The exam validates a candidate’s ability to complete the following tasks:
Explain the value of the AWS Cloud
Understand and explain the AWS shared responsibility model
Understand security best practices
Understand AWS Cloud costs, economics, and billing practices
Describe and position the core AWS services, including compute, network, databases, and storage
Identify AWS services for common use cases
This practice tests course consists of 6 practice tests, where each course consists of 65 questions. These practice tests are designed in such a way that they have similar pattern to actual certification exam.
The certification exam consists questions from following 4 domain with the corresponding weightages as mentioned below.
Domain 1: Cloud Concepts (26%)
Domain 2: Security and Compliance (25%)
Domain 3: Technology (33% )
Domain 4: Billing and Pricing 16%
The exam includes 15 unscored questions(out of the 65 questions) that do not affect your score. AWS collects information about candidate performance on these unscored questions to evaluate these questions for future use as scored questions. These unscored questions are not identified on the exam.
There are two types of questions on the exam:
As per AWS exam guide, the target candidate should have 6 months, or the equivalent, of active engagement with the AWS Cloud, with exposure to AWS Cloud design, implementation, and/or operations. Candidates will demonstrate an understanding of well-designed AWS Cloud solutions.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of related job tasks that the target candidate is not expected to be able to perform. These items are considered out of scope for the exam:
Coding
Designing cloud architecture
Troubleshooting
Implementation
Migration
Load and performance testing
Business applications (for example, Amazon Alexa, Amazon Chime, Amazon WorkMail)
