AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner syllabus

Foundational certification in AWS Cloud concepts, security, core services, and billing: 65 questions in 90 minutes.

Cloud Practitioner

65 questions (50 affect the score; 15 unscored questions are not identified) · 90 minutes

Multiple choice is one answer out of four. Multiple response is two or more answers out of five or more options. The exam guide does not describe partial credit.

  • Cloud Concepts (24% of scored content): benefits of the AWS Cloud, Well-Architected pillars, migration and the Cloud Adoption Framework, cloud economics
  • Security and Compliance (30% of scored content): shared responsibility, governance and compliance, access management, security services
  • Cloud Technology and Services (34% of scored content): deployment models, global infrastructure, compute, databases, networking, storage, AI/ML and analytics, and other in-scope services
  • Billing, Pricing, and Support (12% of scored content): purchasing options, cost tools, documentation and support