By the end
What you'll build
- Explain the AWS Cloud value proposition, service and deployment models, and the six advantages of cloud computing
- Apply the Shared Responsibility Model to decide, per service, whether AWS or the customer owns a given security task
- Select the correct AWS service for a scenario across compute, storage, databases, networking, and security (the service-selection matrix)
- Reason about IAM identities, least privilege, MFA, and policy evaluation (explicit deny wins) at the Cloud Practitioner level
- Choose the right EC2 purchase option and estimate costs, including On-Demand vs Reserved break-even and S3 billing with Free-Tier allowances
- Match billing and cost tools (Pricing Calculator, Cost Explorer, Budgets, CUR, Cost Anomaly Detection) and support plans to the right job
- Recognise and defuse the common CLF-C02 trap patterns through structured error analysis
- Sit timed, domain-weighted mock exams and interpret the results to judge exam readiness
- Graduate to real, free, mostly no-card AWS practice (Skill Builder, AWS Educate, Free Plan, Builder Labs) and book the CLF-C02 exam with accurate expectations
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
39 lessons across 8 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.