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AWS Cloud Practitioner

Practice questions and notes for the AWS CCP exam.

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    Cloud Concepts, Value Proposition & Cloud Economics

    The CLF-C02 exam loves to test the small wording differences between ideas that sound the same. CapEx vs OpEx, elasticity vs scalability, high availability vs…
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    AWS Well-Architected Framework & the Six Pillars

    The Well-Architected Framework is a set of best practices grouped into six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost…
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    The Shared Responsibility Model

    In AWS, security is shared: AWS secures the cloud itself (the hardware, the buildings, the network, the host software that runs managed services), while you…
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    IAM — Identity & Access Management

    IAM (Identity and Access Management) is how you control who can do what in your AWS account. It is free, global (not tied to a Region), and built from four…
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    Security, Identity & Compliance Services

    AWS has a crowded shelf of security services, and the CLF-C02 exam loves to test whether you can tell the look-alikes apart.
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    Amazon EC2 — Instances & Purchasing Options

    Amazon EC2 gives you virtual servers (instances) that you can buy in several ways, and the exam loves to test which pricing model fits a given workload.
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    VPC & Networking Fundamentals

    A VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) is your own private network inside AWS, split into subnets across Availability Zones.
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    Amazon Route 53 — DNS & Routing

    Amazon Route 53 is AWS's managed DNS (Domain Name System) service — it turns human-friendly names like example.com into the IP addresses computers use, and it…
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    Amazon CloudFront — CDN & Edge Delivery

    Amazon CloudFront is AWS's content delivery network (CDN): it caches copies of your content at hundreds of edge locations close to users, so requests travel a…
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    Amazon S3 — Object Storage

    Amazon S3 is object storage: you put whole files ("objects") into "buckets" and reach them over the internet, not as a disk attached to a server.
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    Amazon RDS — Managed Relational Databases

    Amazon RDS is a managed service for traditional relational (SQL) databases, so AWS handles patching, backups, and the underlying servers while you keep control…
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    Amazon DynamoDB — Managed NoSQL

    Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL key-value database that gives you single-digit-millisecond response times at any scale.
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    Amazon CloudWatch — Monitoring & Observability

    Amazon CloudWatch is the AWS service that watches how your resources are performing — it collects metrics (numbers like CPU usage), stores logs, raises alarms,…
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    AWS CloudTrail — Auditing & API Logging

    AWS CloudTrail is your audit log: it records the API calls and actions taken in your account — who did what , when , and from where .
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    AWS Organizations & Multi-Account Governance

    AWS Organizations lets you centrally manage many AWS accounts under one roof, share a single bill, and apply guardrails.
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    Billing, Pricing, Cost Management & Support

    This topic is mostly about picking the right tool for the right job and knowing what each Support plan includes.