AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Roadmap

CLF-C02 tests overall AWS Cloud understanding. Start with the official domains and the target candidate: someone who can explain AWS value, shared responsibility, security basics, core services, and billing or support options. Keep implementation depth limited; this is foundational recognition, not a production architecture exam.

Begin with cloud value and global infrastructure. Review elasticity, scalability, high availability, Regions, Availability Zones, edge locations, OpEx versus CapEx, and the Well-Architected pillars. These concepts explain why services such as EC2, S3, VPC, and CloudFront are used in common business scenarios.

Next, study security and service purpose together. IAM controls access, MFA protects sign-ins, CloudTrail records account activity, AWS Organizations manages multiple accounts, and security groups filter traffic. Then connect compute, storage, database, and networking services to their basic jobs: EC2, Lambda, S3, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, Route 53, and CloudFront.

Cost and support topics deserve their own pass. Compare Pricing Calculator, Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, consolidated billing, Trusted Advisor, AWS Health Dashboard, and Support Plans. Practice explaining when each tool is used, because CLF-C02 often tests tool selection rather than configuration.

After each review block, answer practice questions and write down the missed distinction. The useful notes are specific: “CloudTrail logs API calls,” “Cost Explorer analyzes spend,” “AWS handles physical data center security,” or “S3 is object storage.” Those small corrections make the roadmap adaptive without relying on a rigid week-by-week schedule.