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Exam Prep: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Foundations

Amazon Web Services

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This new foundational-level course from Amazon Web Services (AWS), is designed to help you to assess your preparedness for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification exam.  You will learn how to prepare for the exam by exploring the exam’s topic areas and how they map to both AWS Cloud practitioner roles and to specific areas of study. You will review sample certification questions in each domain, practice skills with hands-on exercises, test your knowledge with practice question sets, and learn strategies for identifying incorrect responses by interpreting the concepts that are being tested in the exam. At the end of this course you will have all the knowledge and tools to help you identity your strengths and weaknesses in each certification domain areas that are being tested on the certification exam. 
The AWS Certified Cloud Foundations Certification 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 and identify AWS services for common use cases

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Beginner Level

Familiarity with/have taken AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials course, and Preparation for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification

Approx. 9 hours to complete

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What you will learn

The four domains - Cloud Concepts, Security and Compliance, Technology and Billing and Pricing - for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam
Certification exam-level practice questions written by experts from AWS
Simulations designed to solidify understanding of cloud concepts you need to know for the exam

Skills you will gain

Cloud Computing
AWS cloud

Flexible deadlines

Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.

Shareable Certificate

Earn a Certificate upon completion

100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Coursera Labs

Includes hands on learning projects.

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Beginner Level

Familiarity with/have taken AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials course, and Preparation for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification

Approx. 9 hours to complete

English

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Morgan Willis
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Senior Cloud Technologist

AWS Training & Certification

559,876 Learners

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Seph Robinson

Cloud Technologist

AWS Training and Certification

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Amazon Web Services

Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 90 fully featured services for compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, developer, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, security, hybrid and enterprise applications, from 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic regions. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the world — including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies — to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs.

Coursera and AWS have been partners since 2017 providing learners and enterprises globally, the skills they need to succeed. Coursera builds on AWS servers to scale with student demand with confidence around capacity and elasticity and in partnership with AWS. In 2019, Coursera achieved Advanced Tier Partner status and further extended the partnership with AWS Educate, AWS EdStart and AWS Academy collaborations. Coursera's been able to make cloud skills more accessible with 8 AWS courses on the Coursera platform featuring top subject matter experts and the portfolio continues to grow. To learn more about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

3 hours to complete

Week 1

Welcome to Exam Prep: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner! In this course, we present content on all four knowledge domains that are covered in the exam. It's important to understand that on the exam, questions from all domains are presented in random order. In this week, you will get an overview of relevant concepts and services for Cloud Concepts (Domain 1). For this domain, question walkthroughs cover defining the benefits of the AWS Cloud, aspects of AWS Cloud economics, and explaining the different design principles for cloud architecture. In addition, this week features a simulation where you explore the AWS Management Console and navigate through helpful places to find information.

3 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 35 min), 4 readings

8 videos

Welcome to AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Prep5mBenefits of the AWS Cloud3mBenefits of the AWS Cloud: Question Walkthrough5mAspects of AWS Cloud Economics5mAspects of AWS Cloud Economics: Question Walkthrough3mCloud Architecture Design Principles5mCloud Architecture Design Principles: Question Walkthrough3mCloud Concepts: Close2m

4 readings

Pre-Course Survey30mDomain Notes: Cloud Concepts30mDiscovering the Console: Walkthrough10mMid-Course Survey30m

Week2

Week 2

1 hour to complete

Week 2

Welcome to Week 2! This week, you will review relevant concepts and services for Security and Compliance (Domain 2) so you can get a benchmark of your knowledge in this area. Question walkthroughs for this domain address the topics of defining the AWS shared responsibility model, defining concepts about AWS Cloud security and compliance, and identifying capabilities for AWS access management. In the simulation for the Security and Compliance domain, you get an opportunity to understand the purpose of user and identity management by reviewing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) groups, users, roles, and policies.

1 hour to complete

9 videos (Total 37 min), 2 readings

9 videos

AWS Shared Responsibility Model4mAWS Shared Responsibility Model: Question Walkthrough3mAWS Cloud Security and Compliance Concepts5mAWS Cloud Security and Compliance Concepts: Question Walkthrough5mAWS Access Management Capabilities4mAWS Access Management Capabilities: Question Walkthrough2mResources for Security Support2mResources for Security Support: Question Walkthrough3mSecurity and Compliance: Close4m

2 readings

Domain Notes: Security and Compliance30mExploring Security: Walkthrough10m

Week3

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Week 3

Welcome to Week 3! This week, you will get an overview of relevant concepts and services for Technology (Domain 3) so you can get a benchmark of your knowledge in this area. For this domain, the question walkthroughs focus on defining methods of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud, defining the AWS global infrastructure, and identifying the core AWS services. This week features an optional, hands-on exercise for the Technology domain, where you will create an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance and an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. You will then create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the instance. Finally, you will terminate the instance and clean up any volumes or snapshots that remain. An accompanying video walkthrough shows one possible solution for addressing the exercise requirements.

2 hours to complete

11 videos (Total 44 min), 2 readings

11 videos

Methods of Deploying and Operating in the AWS Cloud5mMethods of Deploying and Operating in the AWS Cloud: Question Walkthrough3mAWS Global Infrastructure3mAWS Global Infrastructure: Question Walkthrough2mCore AWS Services7mAWS Core Services: Question Walkthrough3mAWS Technology Support3mTechnology Support: Question Walkthrough3mTechnology: Close5mExploring Amazon EC2 Utilization: Lab Introduction1mExploring Amazon EC2: Lab Walkthrough5m

2 readings

Domain Notes: Technology30mExercise: EC230m

Week4

Week 4

3 hours to complete

Week 4

Welcome to Week 4! This week, you will review relevant concepts and services on Billing and Pricing (Domain 4) so you can get a benchmark of your knowledge in this area. The question walkthroughs for this domain compare the various pricing models for AWS, review the various account structures in relation to AWS billing and pricing, and identify resources available for billing support. In this week’s optional exercise, you will create an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket that is configured to block all public access. You will then upload an object to verify that your access is blocked. Finally, you will make the object public, and then verify that you can view it. This week also includes a practice assessment that includes questions from all exam domains.

3 hours to complete

11 videos (Total 36 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz

11 videos

Pricing Models for AWS3mPricing Models for AWS: Question Walkthrough4mAccount Structures with AWS Billing and Pricing1mAccount Structures with AWS Billing and Pricing: Question Walkthrough3mResources Available for Billing Support5mResources Available for Billing Support: Question Walkthrough3mBilling and Pricing: Close3mExploring Amazon S3: Lab Introduction1mExploring Amazon S3: Lab Walkthrough4mBenchmark Assessment3mCertified Cloud Practitioner Exam Prep: Course Close1m

3 readings

Domain Notes: Billing and Pricing30mExercise: S330mPost-Course Survey30m

1 practice exercise

Benchmark Assessment1h

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TOP REVIEWS FROM EXAM PREP: AWS CERTIFIED CLOUD PRACTITIONER FOUNDATIONS

by SEJun 30, 2022

Les compétences que j'ai aquises dans mon cours, m'aident beaucoup dans mes activités de tous les jours.

by MHMar 19, 2022

I learned many things in AWS. The learning journey is awesome and got too much knowledge about AWS theoretically and practically. Thanks for making such a good course.

by SSFeb 1, 2022

Very useful to prepare for Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam and also to gain some foundational knowledge on AWS.

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Exam Prep: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Foundations

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