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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Standardize your team on AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner with a structured AWS training path — a blueprint-weighted practice exam and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Course
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Practice exam
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Core skills
$100
Exam fee (AWS)
AWS cloud engineering team reviewing architecture diagrams together
Difficulty
Difficulty: 1 of 5 (Easy)
Easy
Exam fee (AWS)
$100
Courses on path
1
Official source
AWS’s official exam page
Exam code
  • CLF-C02

Exam datasheet

Prerequisites
No prerequisites
Recommended experience
Up to 6 months of fundamental AWS Cloud and industry knowledge
Recertification
3 years
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Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$100

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner path takes CLF-C02.

  1. CLF-C02AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)Practice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $100
    Exam length
    90 minutes
    Questions
    65
    Passing score
    700

Skills your team builds

AWS Cloud conceptsSecurity and complianceTechnologyBilling and pricingCloud architecture

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

    This AWS Cloud Practitioner training prepares you for the CLF-C02 exam by covering AWS infrastructure, core services (compute, storage, AI/ML), and the Well-Architected Framework. You’ll build foundational literacy in cloud security, networking, and pricing models across the four exam domains. You'll also learn to identify key resources via the Console or CLI while navigating the shared responsibility model and cost-management. This AWS Cloud Practitioner training includes interactive quizzes, a study guide, and a full practice exam to ensure you pass with confidence.

    Scott Pletcher
    114 videosPractice exam15h
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Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Certification practice exams
  • Per-team completion reporting

AWS career ladder

Where AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner sits in your team's AWS progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Entry level

    2 certs

    AWS Certified AI Practitioner

    AIF-C01

    AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

    CLF-C02

    You are here

  2. Associate level

    5 certs

    AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

    SOA-C03

    AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate

    DEA-C01

    AWS Certified Developer – Associate

    DVA-C02

    AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate

    MLA-C02

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

    SAA-C03

  3. Professional level

    2 certs

    AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional

    AIP-C01

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

    SAP-C02

  4. Specialist level

    2 certs

    AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty

    ANS-C01

    AWS Certified Security – Specialty

    SCS-C03

Customer outcome

Build AWS capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished, and who has passed the practice exam — the view leadership uses to see AWS skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make AWS a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on AWS gives leadership a clear picture of AWS skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Exam
  • CLF-C02

Frequently asked questions about AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner training for their team.

How does AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner fit into our compliance and governance program?

Teams often cite AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner when documenting baseline AWS literacy across the people who approve, budget for, or support cloud workloads. Team reporting in CBT Nuggets provides per-learner progress, completion, and completion exports that can serve as training evidence, while your auditor's control crosswalk decides how the credential maps to the formal requirements of your framework.

Who on the team should hold AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, and what can a certified team own?

The credential suits anyone who needs a shared AWS vocabulary before going deeper, from help desk and operations staff to project leads and the people who review cloud spend. The linked CLF-C02 course spans AWS networking, storage, compute, database options, data management, developer tools, application integration, and migrations and support options, so a certified team can join architecture and cost conversations with confidence. Lessons on cloud economics and cost management also prepare members to discuss billing and spending decisions with finance.

What does CBT Nuggets AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to AWS's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner?

The linked live courses add up to about 15 hours of video, which gives IT leaders a concrete figure for planning training time. The actual time to certify depends on each team member's starting point with AWS and cloud concepts, so engineers already working in AWS may move faster than colleagues new to the platform.

What if AWS updates the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates AWS course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When AWS restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

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