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AWS Cloud Practitioner

A complete route to AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner: a guarded free-tier account, the four exam domains studied in order, weekly practice, hands-on labs, booking, exam day and the badge.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for AWS Cloud Practitioner, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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AWS Cloud Practitioner

Starting AWS certification with Cloud Practitioner: core services, billing and pricing, security and the shared responsibility model, free-tier practice and the exam.

  1. Deciding whether Cloud Practitioner is your first AWS exam
  2. Current exam guide and AWS certification policies check
  3. AWS Certification and Skill Builder accounts
  4. Practice AWS account with the root user locked down
  5. Zero-spend budget and billing alerts before the first lab
  6. Diagnostic practice set and domain baseline
  7. Dated eight-week Cloud Practitioner study plan
  8. Choosing one course and one practice question bank
  9. Plain-language cloud glossary for starters
  10. Exam voucher, discount and training budget request
  11. Twice-weekly protected study blocks
  12. Daily ten-question warm-up
  13. Wrong-answer log and weekly review
  14. Monthly timed full-length practice exam
  15. Service-name flashcards with spaced repetition
  16. Monthly AWS bill and free-tier usage check
  17. Lab tear-down checklist after every session
  18. Monthly study plan reset
  19. Cloud concepts and the Well-Architected pillars
  20. Cloud adoption framework and migration strategies
  21. Regions, Availability Zones and edge locations
  22. Shared responsibility model by service type
  23. IAM essentials with users, groups, roles and policies
  24. Security and compliance services map
  25. Compute choices from EC2 to Lambda
  26. Storage and database services compared
  27. Networking and content delivery basics
  28. Pricing models, support plans and cost tools
  29. Management and governance tools tour in the console
  30. Analytics, AI and machine learning service recognition
  31. Static website on S3 behind CloudFront
  32. First EC2 instance launched, connected and terminated
  33. Pricing Calculator estimate for a small business website
  34. Book, delay or retake readiness decision
  35. Online proctored or test centre delivery choice
  36. Non-native English language accommodation request
  37. Booking the Cloud Practitioner exam
  38. Final fortnight revision before the exam
  39. Exam day check-in and pacing plan
  40. Digital badge, LinkedIn and CV after passing
  41. Retake plan after a failed attempt
  42. Student route through AWS Educate and AWS Academy
  43. Cloud Practitioner for sales, finance and project roles
  44. Two-week fast track for working engineers
  45. Studying around a full-time job and children
  46. Team Cloud Practitioner cohort for a department
  47. Career changer project write-up on AWS
  48. Choosing the next AWS certification
  49. Cloud Practitioner validity and recertification plan
  50. Cloud Practitioner tutor sessions for newer candidates

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Deciding whether Cloud Practitioner is your first AWS exam

Cloud Practitioner is the foundational AWS exam, built for people who need to talk about cloud with confidence rather than build on it every day. Engineers with a year of hands-on AWS often skip straight to an associate exam, while students and non-technical staff usually gain most from starting here. An evening comparing your background against both routes saves weeks spent on the wrong syllabus.

First tasks

  • Read the Cloud Practitioner page on the AWS Certification website
  • List the cloud tools and services you have used and for how long
  • Ask your manager or tutor which AWS credential they would value most
  • Write your decision and reason at the top of your study notes

Current exam guide and AWS certification policies check

AWS publishes an exam guide for each version of Cloud Practitioner, with the domains, the in-scope and out-of-scope services and the question types, and it replaces the exam code when the content changes. Courses and books written for an older version still circulate cheaply.

First tasks

  • Download the current Cloud Practitioner exam guide from the AWS Certification site
  • Copy the domain names and weightings into your study notes
  • Save the in-scope services appendix as a checklist
  • Note the fee, retake policy and validity period from the certification policies page

AWS Certification and Skill Builder accounts

Booking, score reports, badges and vouchers all live in your AWS Certification account, while the free official course and practice question set live in AWS Skill Builder. People who register with a work email lose access to their own certification history when they change jobs. Setting both up once, with a personal email and your name exactly as it appears on your ID, avoids an exam-day check-in problem.

First tasks

  • Create your AWS Certification account using a personal email address
  • Compare the name on the account with your passport or national ID
  • Sign in to AWS Skill Builder with the same identity
  • Enrol in the free Cloud Practitioner Essentials course

Make it yours.

Install AWS Cloud Practitioner, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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