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About the CLF-C02 exam

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner is the entry-level AWS certification. It is aimed at people who need to talk sensibly about the AWS Cloud without building on it every day: newcomers starting a cloud career, and people in sales, finance, project management or leadership who work alongside cloud teams. AWS says no IT or cloud background is required, and the target candidate has up to six months of exposure to AWS.

The exam tests breadth, not depth. You won't write code, design an architecture or troubleshoot anything. Instead, questions describe a simple need, such as storing files that are rarely read, getting alerted when spending passes a limit, or finding out who deleted a resource, and ask which AWS service, pricing model or responsibility fits. The hard part is that many AWS services sound alike, so most wrong options are real services that do something nearby.

Exam format

  • Questions: 65, multiple choice (one answer from four) or multiple response (two or more answers from five or more). 15 of the 65 are unscored trial questions, and they aren't marked.
  • Time: 90 minutes.
  • Passing score: 700 on a scaled score from 100 to 1,000. There is no penalty for guessing, so never leave a question blank.
  • Cost: 100 USD, at a Pearson VUE test center or online with a remote proctor.
  • Validity: 3 years.
  • Languages: AWS has announced that the Italian and German versions retire after December 31, 2026. The exam continues in its other languages.

What the exam covers

The official exam guide has four domains:

  • Cloud Concepts (24%). The benefits of the cloud (elasticity, agility, global reach, trading fixed costs for variable ones), the six pillars of the Well-Architected Framework, migration strategies such as rehost and refactor, and the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework.
  • Security and Compliance (30%). The shared responsibility model, protecting the root user, IAM users, groups, roles and least privilege, AWS Artifact for compliance reports, and what services like GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, Shield, WAF, KMS and CloudTrail each do.
  • Cloud Technology and Services (34%). Regions, Availability Zones and edge locations; the core compute, storage, database and networking services (EC2, Lambda, S3, EBS, EFS, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront); and when to pick an AI, analytics or messaging service.
  • Billing, Pricing, and Support (12%). On-Demand, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances and Spot; AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, consolidated billing and cost allocation tags; and the differences between the Support plans.

How the practice questions here are organised

There are 13 practice tests of 10 questions each. Every test mixes all four domains, so each one is a small sample of the whole exam rather than a single-topic quiz. A handful of questions are multiple response, the way the real exam has them. Each question explains why the correct answer fits and why every other option doesn't, with a link to the AWS page it is based on.

The full practice exam copies the real one: 65 questions in 90 minutes, spread across the domains by the official weights, with answers hidden until you submit. It scores all 65 questions and passes you at 70%, because AWS doesn't say how its scaled score maps to a number of correct answers.

A study plan that works

  • Take Test 1 without studying first, so you know which domains are weak.
  • Keep a short list of services you confuse, such as CloudTrail and CloudWatch, Inspector and GuardDuty, or Budgets and Cost Explorer, and write one line on what each actually does.
  • Learn the shared responsibility model with examples on both sides. It shows up across the security questions, not only in one place.
  • Work through a few tests a day, reading every explanation, including the ones you got right by guessing.
  • When you are passing most tests comfortably, sit the full practice exam timed and in one sitting. Ninety minutes for 65 questions is generous, so use spare time to re-read the questions you flagged.

These questions are original, written from the public AWS documentation and the official exam guide. They are not real exam questions, and this site is not affiliated with AWS.