AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) exam is intended for individuals who can effectively demonstrate overall knowledge of the AWS Cloud, independent of a specific job role.
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Introduction
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)
The exam also 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 the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Understand security best practices.
Understand AWS Cloud costs, economics, and billing practices.
Describe and position the core AWS services, including compute, network, database, and storage services.
Identify AWS services for common use cases.
Target Candidate Description
The target candidate has up to 6 months of exposure to AWS Cloud design, implementation, and/or operations. The candidate might be in the early stages of pursuing an AWS Cloud career or the candidate might work with people in AWS Cloud roles.
Recommended AWS knowledge
The target candidate should have AWS knowledge in the following areas:
AWS Cloud concepts
Security and compliance in the AWS Cloud
Core AWS services
Economics of the AWS Cloud
Job tasks that are out of scope for the target candidate
The following list contains job tasks that the target candidate is not expected to be able to perform. This list is non-exhaustive. These tasks are out of scope for the exam:
Coding
Designing cloud architecture
Troubleshooting
Implementation
Load and performance testing
Exam Content
There are two types of questions on the exam:
Multiple choice: Has one correct response and three incorrect responses (distractors)
Multiple response: Has two or more correct responses out of five or more response options
Select one or more responses that best complete the statement or answer the question. Distractors, or incorrect answers, are response options that a candidate with incomplete knowledge or skill might choose. Distractors are generally plausible responses that match the content area.
Unanswered questions are scored as incorrect; there is no penalty for guessing. The exam includes 50 questions that affect your score.
The exam includes 15 unscored questions that do not affect your score. AWS collects information about performance on these unscored questions to evaluate these questions for future use as scored questions. These unscored questions are not identified on the exam.
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) exam has a pass or fail designation. The exam is scored against a minimum standard established by AWS professionals who follow certification industry best practices and guidelines.
Your results for the exam are reported as a scaled score of 100–1,000. The minimum passing score is 700. Your score shows how you performed on the exam as a whole and whether you passed. Scaled scoring models help equate scores across multiple exam forms that might have slightly different difficulty levels.
Unscored Content
The exam includes 15 unscored questions that do not affect your score. AWS collects information about performance on these unscored questions to evaluate these questions for future use as scored questions. These unscored questions are not identified on the exam.
Exam Results
This AWS certification exam has a pass or fail designation. The exam is scored against a minimum standard established by AWS professionals who follow certification industry best practices and guidelines.
Your results for the exam are reported as a scaled score of 100–1,000. The minimum passing score is 700. Your score shows how you performed on the exam as a whole and whether you passed. Scaled scoring models help equate scores across multiple exam forms that might have slightly different difficulty levels.
Your score report could contain a table of classifications of your performance at each section level. The exam uses a compensatory scoring model, which means that you do not need to achieve a passing score in each section. You need to pass only the overall exam.
Each section of the exam has a specific weighting, so some sections have more questions than other sections have. The table of classifications contains general information that highlights your strengths and weaknesses. Use caution when you interpret section-level feedback.
Content Outline
This exam guide includes weightings, content domains, and task statements for the exam. This guide does not provide a comprehensive list of the content on the exam. However, additional context for each task statement is available to help you prepare for the exam.
The exam has the following content domains and weightings:
Service References
The following sections provide detailed information about AWS services, technologies, and concepts relevant to this certification exam:
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