What is AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam?

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What is AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and who should take it?

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner is a fundamental certification in AWS Cloud.

• It is intended for individuals who are looking to build and validate overall understanding of the AWS Cloud.
• This certification is useful for individuals in technical, managerial, sales, purchasing, or financial roles who work with the AWS Cloud.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam has 65 questions to be answered in 100 minutes.
• You can take this exam online, without having to visit a test center.
• Be sure to have a good internet connection, comfortable seating, id cards ready and you should be good to go.
• Candidates have 90 minutes to complete the exam

What does this certification validates?

It validates your basic understanding on AWS Cloud. For example:

1. What the AWS Cloud is and the basic global infrastructure
2. Your understanding on AWS Cloud value proposition
3. Basic AWS Cloud architectural principles
4. Key services on the AWS platform and their common use cases (for example, compute and analytics)
5. Basic security and compliance aspects of the AWS platform and the shared security model
6. Billing, account management, and pricing models
7. Identify sources of documentation or technical assistance (for example, white papers or support tickets); and
8. Basic/core characteristics of deploying and operating in the AWS Cloud.

Exam pattern:

Learning path and Exam preparation:

There are online and classroom mode both are available for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.

Refer the AWS link [AWS training and certification]to find the training session.

3 AWS white papers  you should consult before you take the exam.

In order to understand more detail on specific area of AWS, you may want to have a look at AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Learning Path

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