AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

- [Narrator] The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam is the only foundational level certification exam from Amazon Web Services, and requires no hands-on engineering experiences or prerequisite certifications. It validates the candidate's overall fundamental understanding of the AWS Cloud and basically serves to show your employers that you get what AWS does and how it operates to provide cloud computing services to its customers. While it is in no way required, it is a recommended stepping stone to taking the Associate or Specialty-level certification exams. AWS recommended that a candidate has six months of experience with the AWS Cloud in any role, ranging from technical, managerial, sales, purchasing, or financial before taking the certification exam. But, from my experience and those of many others, this is not a strict necessity as long as the candidate has the fundamental knowledge necessary for the exam through studying. Basic understanding of IT services and their uses in the AWS Cloud platform is also recommended. The certification exam is 90 minutes long and can be taken online or at the testing center. It costs 100 U.S. dollars per attempt and is available in English, Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese. Unlike many other AWS certification exams, it has a hard pass score of 70% and is a multiple choice exam. So, what does the certification exam validate in terms of your knowledge and skills? The certification shows that you can define the AWS Cloud and the basic global infrastructure, describe basic AWS Cloud architectural principles and value proposition, and describe key services on AWS Cloud as well as common use cases. It also shows that you know the basic security and compliance aspects of AWS Cloud, and can define the billing, account management, and pricing models. The exam proves that you can describe the core characteristics of deploying and operating your IT infrastructure in the AWS Cloud. Finally, it shows that you can identify sources of documentations and technical assistance such as submitting support tickets and reading white papers.