AWS Cloud Practitioner
Practice questions and notes for the AWS CCP exam.
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72 interactive questions · CLF-C02 - answers stay hidden until you commit.
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Cloud Concepts & Economics: The CLF-C02 Traps That Sink You
Master the AWS cloud concepts and cloud economics distinctions the CLF-C02 exam loves to trap you on: CapEx vs OpEx, elasticity vs scalability, and more.
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AWS Six Pillars: The Trick to Never Confusing Them Again
Learn the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its six pillars with the exact keyword cues that tell Reliability from Performance and Cost from Sustainability.
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AWS Shared Responsibility Model, Made Simple
Confused about who secures what in AWS? Learn the Shared Responsibility Model with clear examples for EC2, RDS, S3, and Lambda so you never miss a question.
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AWS IAM Explained: Users, Roles, Policies, and the Deny Rule
A plain-English guide to AWS IAM: users, groups, roles, and policies, why explicit deny always wins, and the patterns that pass the Cloud Practitioner exam.
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AWS Security Services Decoded: Stop Confusing the Look-Alikes
A plain-language guide to AWS security and identity services. Learn to tell KMS, GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, CloudTrail, and Config apart with confidence.
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EC2 Purchasing Options Explained: Pick the Right One
Confused by EC2 purchasing options? Learn when to use On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, and Savings Plans, plus how AMIs, EBS, and Auto Scaling really work.
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AWS VPC Networking Made Simple (CLF-C02 Guide)
Confused by AWS VPC networking? Learn Internet Gateway vs NAT Gateway, security groups vs network ACLs, and Direct Connect vs VPN in plain language for CLF-C02.
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Amazon Route 53 Explained: DNS & Routing Made Simple
Learn how Amazon Route 53 routes traffic, when to use alias vs CNAME records, and how its seven routing policies work - with clear, exam-ready examples.
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Amazon CloudFront Explained: Faster Sites at the Edge
Learn how Amazon CloudFront caches content at edge locations to cut latency, offload your origin, and stop confusing it with CLF-C02 look-alikes.
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Amazon S3 Storage Classes: The Cheat Sheet That Sticks
Learn Amazon S3 the way the exam tests it: pick the right storage class, separate durability from availability, and never confuse S3 with EBS or EFS.
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Amazon RDS Explained: Multi-AZ vs Read Replicas Made Simple
A plain-English guide to Amazon RDS for the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam. Learn Multi-AZ vs Read Replicas, backups vs snapshots, and when to pick RDS.
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Amazon DynamoDB Explained: The Database With No Servers
Learn what Amazon DynamoDB really is, how it differs from RDS, DAX, and ElastiCache, and when to pick on-demand vs provisioned capacity for the AWS exam.
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CloudWatch vs CloudTrail: The AWS Exam Trap Explained
Learn Amazon CloudWatch the simple way: metrics, logs, alarms, and the CloudWatch vs CloudTrail difference that trips up AWS Cloud Practitioner exam takers.
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AWS CloudTrail Explained: Who Did What in Your Account
Learn how AWS CloudTrail logs every API call in your account - who did what, when, and from where - and how it differs from CloudWatch, Config, and Flow Logs.
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AWS Organizations: How SCPs, Billing & Control Tower Work
Learn how AWS Organizations manages many accounts with one bill, why SCPs are a permission ceiling that never grants access, and where Control Tower fits in.
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AWS Cost Tools Made Simple: Calculator vs Cost Explorer
Confused by AWS Pricing Calculator, Cost Explorer, Budgets, and CUR? Learn which AWS cost tool to use when, plus how Support plans really differ.
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The AWS Cloud Practitioner Cheat Sheet (CLF-C02): Every Service on One Page
The one-page AWS Cloud Practitioner cheat sheet for CLF-C02: all 4 domains, every service that shows up, and a keyword-to-answer trap table for the exam.