Cloud Practitioner

The Cloud Practitioner exam domains

Four domains, each weighted by its share of scored content. The topics below follow the task statements in AWS's CLF-C02 exam guide.

ExamCLF-C02
Questions65: 50 scored and 15 unscored, multiple choice or multiple response
Time90 minutes
Passing score700 on a scale of 100 to 1,000

1. Cloud Concepts (24%)

The benefits of the AWS Cloud, the Well-Architected Framework and its six pillars, the Cloud Adoption Framework and migration strategies, and cloud economics: fixed and variable costs, licensing, rightsizing and economies of scale.

2. Security and Compliance (30%)

The shared responsibility model and how it shifts by service, governance and compliance (AWS Artifact, encryption, CloudTrail, Config and CloudWatch), access management with IAM, MFA and the root user, and security services such as AWS WAF, Shield, GuardDuty and Inspector.

3. Cloud Technology and Services (34%)

Ways to deploy and operate, Regions, Availability Zones and edge locations, and the main compute, database, network, storage, AI/ML and analytics services, plus messaging, business, developer, end-user and IoT services.

4. Billing, Pricing, and Support (12%)

Compute purchasing options such as On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Spot and Savings Plans, data transfer and storage pricing, AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, the Pricing Calculator and Organizations, and the Support plans and technical resources.

Try 3 questions

Question 1Design principles and the Well-Architected Framework

A team schedules a planned event where it simulates an Availability Zone failure in a test environment to practice its response. Which general design principle of the Well-Architected Framework is this?

Question 2The shared responsibility model

Configuration management is a shared control. Which pairing shows how the work is split?

Question 3Billing, budgets and cost management

Halfway through a quarter, a finance director asks for a chart of spend so far and a forecast of where spend is heading, based on the account's own usage history. No alert is needed. Which tool fits?

Next step

The exam guide on docs.aws.amazon.com

Questions people ask

Which domain is the largest?

Cloud Technology and Services, at 34% of scored content, then Security and Compliance at 30%.

Where can I read the official exam guide?

AWS publishes the CLF-C02 exam guide on docs.aws.amazon.com, with each domain's task statements and the in-scope services list. The topics on this page follow it.

Does this course follow CLF-C02?

Yes. Every lesson and question is tagged to a task statement in the CLF-C02 exam guide.