AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Certification Guide : Build Practical AWS Cloud Skills Through Real-World Business Scenarios and Prepare with Confidence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daswani, Rajesh.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloud computing.

Certificate in Information Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (598 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited, 2026.

Summary:

Prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 exam with this practical AWS study guide covering cloud fundamentals, core AWS services, security, pricing, governance, and real-world cloud scenarios.

Contents:

Intro

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Certification Guide

Second Edition

Build practical AWS cloud skills through real-world business scenarios and prepare with confidence

Foreword

Contributors

About the author

About the reviewers

Table of Contents

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Conventions used

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Part 1

Building Real-World Skills for a Successful Career in Cloud Computing

1

Real-World Application - Customer Scenario

About Belly Brew Co. Limited

Current IT systems and issues that are of concern to the business

Websites and marketing campaigns

Manufacturing applications

Business applications

Core business requirements for this engagement

Requirement 1 - Developing a customer-facing website that helps promote the company brand among the public

High-level requirements

High-level design solution

Requirement 2 - Improving R&amp

D data analytics processes

Summary

2

What Is Cloud Computing?

Understanding cloud computing

Making API calls with AWS

Exploring virtualization technologies

Comparing cloud computing service models

Infrastructure as a service

Platform as a service

Software as a Service

Choosing cloud deployment models

Private cloud

Public cloud

Hybrid cloud

Applying the six advantages of cloud computing

Exam Readiness Drill - Chapter Review Questions

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3.

Introduction to AWS and the Global Infrastructure

Understanding AWS and its service ecosystem

Exploring the AWS Global Infrastructure

Regions

Availability zones

Global vs. regional vs. zonal services

Edge locations and regional edge caches

Regional edge caches

AWS Local Zones

AWS Wavelength

AWS Outposts

Comparing AWS support plans

The basic support plan

The developer support plan

The business support plan

The enterprise on-ramp support plan

The enterprise plan

Monitoring AWS health events and service availability

Using AWS documentation, Knowledge Center, and security resources

Part 2

AWS Technologies and Services

4

AWS Accounts, Multi-Account Strategies, and AWS Organizations

Understanding AWS accounts

The AWS free tier account

Architecting a multi-account strategy for your business

Managing multiple AWS accounts with AWS Organizations

Organizational units

Securing OUs and accounts with service control policies

AWS Organizations, consolidated billing, and resource sharing

Volume discounts with AWS Organizations

Shared resources across accounts

Using AWS Control Tower for multi-account governance

Project task 4 - Setting up and securing your AWS development account

Technical requirements

Project task 4.1 - Creating a free-tier AWS account

Project task 4.2 - Securing your account with MFA

Project task 4.3 - Setting up AWS budgets

5

AWS Access Management

Managing access with AWS Identity and Access Management

The role of the root user account

The root user and multi-factor authentication

Enforcing password complexity

IAM users

IAM groups.

IAM policies

IAM Policy Simulator

IAM roles

Cross-account access

IAM roles for identity federation

IAM roles anywhere

AWS service roles

The AWS credentials report

Centralizing workforce access with AWS Identity Center

Managing application-user identities with Amazon Cognito

Integrating Microsoft directory services with AWS Directory Service

Project task 5 - Setting up access to the Belly Brew Co. Limited AWS environment

Project task 5.1 - Creating an IAM group and an IAM user account

Project task 5.2 - Installing and configuring the AWS CLI on your local computer

Project task 5.3 - Configuring the AWS CLI on your computer

6

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Exploring storage options on AWS

Block storage

File storage

Object storage

Working with Amazon S3

Buckets and objects

Managing objects in your buckets

Choosing the right Amazon S3 storage class

Storage classes designed for frequently accessed data

Storage classes designed for infrequently accessed data

Storage classes designed for archival or rarely accessed data

Storage class designed for unknown access patterns

Access permissions

Static website hosting

Amazon S3 versioning

Cross-region and same-region replication

Amazon S3 lifecycle management

Amazon S3 encryption

Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration (S3TA)

Connecting on-premises storage to AWS with Amazon Storage Gateway

Moving data and extending storage to the edge with the AWS Snow Family

AWS Snowcone

AWS Snowball Edge

Project task 6 - Deploying a static website using Amazon S3 for Belly Brew Co. Limited

Project task 6.1 - Creating an Amazon S3 bucket.

Project task 6.2 - Configuring static website hosting

Project task 6.3 - Creating a bucket policy

Project task 6.4 - Uploading website files to S3 bucket

Project task 6.5 - Accessing the website

7

AWS Networking Services, Part 1 - Virtual Private Cloud (VPCs)

Understanding on-premises corporate networks

Basic corporate networks

Explaining IP addressing and subnet masks

IP address version 4 (IPv4)

IPv4 address limitations

Secure internet access

Overview of IPv6

Comparing network sizes and IP address classes

What are subnet masks?

What is subnetting?

Classless Inter-Domain routing

Building virtual networks with Amazon VPC

Internet access

Network address translation (NAT)

Securing VPC traffic

Security groups

Network access control lists (NACLs)

Connecting VPCs with VPC peering

Centralizing VPC connectivity with AWS Transit Gateway

Securing hybrid connectivity with VPNs

Connecting on-premises networks with AWS Direct Connect

Project task 7 - Building a multi-tier network with Amazon VPC

Project task 7.1 - Creating a VPC

Project task 7.2 - Creating subnets for your VPC

Project task 7.3 - Creating an internet gateway

Project task 7.4 - Configuring route tables

Project task 7.5 - Configuring security groups

8

AWS Compute Services - EC2, Lightsail, ECS, EKS, and Lambda

Understanding Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Configuring EC2 instances with Amazon Machine Images

Comparing EBS, instance store, EFS, and FSx storage options

AWS EC2 instance store volumes

Amazon Elastic File System

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server.

Choosing EC2 pricing options

On-demand pricing options

Reserved instance pricing option

Spot instance pricing options

Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts and Dedicated Instances

Deploying simple workloads with Amazon Lightsail

Running containers with Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS

Overview of Amazon Elastic Container Service

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Building event-driven applications with AWS Lambda

Extending AWS compute to on-premises environments with AWS Outposts

Project task 8 - Deploying EC2 instances in public and private subnets of your VPC

Project task 8.1 - Creating a security group for the bastion host EC2 instance

Project task 8.2 - Updating the App-SG security group

Project task 8.3 - Launching your bastion host instance

Project task 8.4 - Launching your app instance in a private subnet

Project task 8.5 - Connecting to the bastion host instance

Project task 8.6 - Connecting to belly-brew-app-srv-01 instance from the bastion host

Project task 8.7 - Cleaning up

9

Databases on AWS

Understanding database concepts and models

Working with relational databases on AWS

Amazon RDS compute and storage options

Deploying an Amazon RDS database instance in a VPC

Backup and recovery

Amazon RDS multi-AZ options

Multi-AZ DB instance deployment

Multi-AZ DB cluster deployment

Amazon RDS read replicas

Introduction to Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora DB clusters

Amazon Aurora Serverless

Securing database credentials with AWS Secrets Manager

Using Amazon DynamoDB for NoSQL workloads

Improving database performance with Amazon ElastiCache

Building data warehousing solutions with Amazon Redshift.

Migrating databases with AWS Database Migration Service.

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Print version: Daswani, Rajesh AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Certification Guide

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OCLC:

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