AWS Cloud Practitioner Review (CLF-C02)
Everything you need to pass the Cloud Practitioner: cloud concepts, security and compliance, core services, and billing and support. Built on the official CLF-C02 exam guide. Voyelle is not affiliated with Amazon Web Services. AWS and CLF-C02 are trademarks of their respective owners.
- 250 cards
- 4 topics
- Free
The outline, topic by topic
Each topic is weighted the way the exam weighs it.
- Cloud Concepts24 %
- Security and Compliance30 %
- Cloud Technology and Services34 %
- Billing, Pricing, and Support12 %
A few cards from the deck
Name the six advantages of cloud computing highlighted by AWS.
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Trade fixed expense for variable expense; benefit from massive economies of scale; stop guessing capacity; increase speed and agility; stop spending money running and maintaining data centers; go global in minutes.
These six advantages, described in the "Overview of Amazon Web Services" whitepaper, sum up the value of the cloud: pay for what you use, scale with demand, and focus on your customers rather than on infrastructure.
A team must create identical environments in a repeatable, versioned and automated way. Which approach should it choose?
- Infrastructure as code with AWS CloudFormation
- Tickets sent to AWS Support
- Screenshots of the configuration
- Manual clicks in the AWS Management Console
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Infrastructure as code with AWS CloudFormation
For repeatable processes, IaC is preferable to the console. The console is suited to one-off operations and exploration.
Under the shared responsibility model, the customer is responsible for security … the cloud.
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Under the shared responsibility model, the customer is responsible for security in the cloud.
AWS is responsible for security of the cloud, that is, the infrastructure. The customer secures its data, identities and configurations.
Summarize the AWS shared responsibility model in one sentence.
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AWS is responsible for security OF the cloud; the customer is responsible for security IN the cloud.
AWS protects the infrastructure that runs the services: hardware, software, networking and facilities. The customer protects what it puts in the cloud and how it configures the services: data, identities, guest OS, network rules.
Which EC2 purchasing option suits a short, unpredictable workload that cannot be interrupted?
- Dedicated Hosts with a commitment
- Spot Instances
- 3-year Reserved Instances
- On-Demand Instances
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On-Demand Instances
On-Demand is billed per second or per hour, with no commitment. It is the most flexible option, suited to new or unpredictable workloads.
The Availability Zones in a Region are designed not to share a ….
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The Availability Zones in a Region are designed not to share a single point of failure.
Power, cooling and networking are independent from one AZ to another. That is why a Multi-AZ architecture is highly available.
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