Introduction

Just a few hours ago did I see the ending screen congratulating me with a much awaited word: “PASS”. I still haven’t seen the status of my passing reflected on my AWS Account, nor have I recieved an email - but I am told it will take until 5 days. This post is to hopefully be yet another small stepping stone towards other certiciations such as Network+ and HTB’s CPTS certification.

What is AWS CLF-02?

This question has been bugging me, and probably has bugging you as well is, why is the exam called “Certified Cloud Practioner”, but is abbreviated as “CLF” - which apparently means “Certified Level Foundation”. But it will remain “CCP” to me.

Anyways, this exam is truly a foundational exam that introduces potential certificate holders to a wide array of AWS Services and some of their interactions with each other (on a high level).

My Experience

The amount of time I spent per day wildly varied, sometimes I would spend about 3 hours per day, other days it would be about 6 hours. I did the bulk of my studying during Winter Break (~ 2 weeks 😭), but was vaguely aware of some services from prior knowledge gathering.

Resources

I’m going to echo the same sentiments on numerous other forums, which is that Stephane Maarek videos and practices exams are the best, along with Tutorial Dojo’s materials. While I didn’t spend a significant amount of time on Maarek’s videos, I can confidently vouch that his practice exams are pretty goated.

Takeaways

This certainly was a decent exam that motivated me to learn about AWS’ offerings. Because of this, I would like to actually get my hands dirty by playing around with AWS resources, now that I know what most of them are. Specifically, I do want to explore Infrastructure as Code (IaC) services in particular.