AWS Cloud Practitioner: ten practical articles
Each article solves one real problem, from application to renewal, and points to the exact chapter of CredenTrek For AWS Cloud Practitioner that carries it further. Facts are checked against AWS documents.
- 01Decide · 6 min read
AWS Cloud Practitioner: do your adverts ask for building or understanding?
Cloud Practitioner proves broad understanding of AWS, not the ability to build. Sort five job adverts into building or understanding, then run a four-question test.
- 02Decide · 6 min read
Your first AWS credential: three questions that point to Cloud Practitioner, AI Practitioner or an Associate exam
Cloud Practitioner, AI Practitioner or an Associate exam? Three questions about your daily work choose for you, and passing any AWS exam earns a 50% voucher.
- 03Decide and apply · 6 min read
Is your Cloud Practitioner material out of date? Check support plans, service names and the Free Tier
CLF-C02 replaced CLF-C01 in September 2023, but support plans, service names and the Free Tier have moved since. Four checks tell you if your course is current.
- 04Prepare · 6 min read
Cloud Practitioner security at 30 per cent: who patches EC2, RDS and Lambda?
Security and Compliance carry 30% of CLF-C02. Learn the shared responsibility split for EC2, RDS and Lambda and the 12 hours it gets in a 40-hour plan.
- 05Prepare · 7 min read
Eight service contrasts, and how the 65 Cloud Practitioner questions work
CLF-C02 has 65 questions in 90 minutes, 15 of them unscored. Learn the scoring rules and eight pairs of look-alike services as contrasts, not definitions.
- 06Prepare · 7 min read
A 40-hour Cloud Practitioner plan, built backwards from your exam date
AWS publishes no study-hour figure. Use 25 to 50 hours, pick a track, split a 40-hour plan into four stages and work backwards from a dated example.
- 07Prepare · 6 min read
A practice AWS account that cannot surprise you: five steps in order
Set up an AWS practice account on the free plan, protect the root user, create your own user and add a budget alert before you build anything.
- 08Book and sit · 7 min read
Cloud Practitioner costs: the US$100 fee, the 50 per cent voucher and the reschedule rules
The published fee is US$100 a try, plus tax. See the budget lines, the retake wait, the reschedule limits and how the 50% voucher lowers your next exam.
- 09Book and sit · 6 min read
Cloud Practitioner exam day: IDs, the online check-in clock and results in five business days
Test centres want two IDs, online exams one primary ID. Know the 30-minute check-in, the 15-minute late limit, the five-day result and whom to contact.
- 10Leverage · 6 min read
After Cloud Practitioner: the badge, the calendar and the Associate exam that renews it
Add your Credly badge on the day you pass, enter the three-year expiry with reminders, and time an Associate exam so it renews Cloud Practitioner as well.