AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Online Training & Certification Prep
Build your foundational AWS knowledge and earn the industry-recognised AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner credential. This course covers core cloud concepts, AWS global infrastructure, key services, security, pricing models, and cloud economics — everything you need to pass the CLF-C02 exam with confidence.
Course Overview
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) is the recommended entry point into AWS certification. It validates a broad understanding of cloud concepts, core AWS services, security best practices, architecture principles, and pricing — without requiring hands-on administrator or developer experience.
Boost eLearning delivers this course through three complementary modalities: self-paced video lessons recorded by AWS Certified Partner instructors, interactive Live Labs that provision real AWS environments so you work with actual EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and IAM policies rather than simulations, and guided practice exams that mirror the CLF-C02 question style and domain weighting.
The curriculum maps directly to the four official CLF-C02 exam domains. You will explore the AWS global infrastructure — Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations — and understand how services like Amazon VPC, EC2, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFront fit together. The security module covers the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Organizations, and compliance programs relevant to regulated industries.
Pricing and billing receive dedicated coverage because AWS cost management is a core CLF-C02 domain. You will work through On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, and Savings Plans pricing models, use the AWS Pricing Calculator inside a Live Lab, and learn how Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets surface spending anomalies before they become invoice surprises.
The course closes with cloud adoption frameworks, migration strategies, and the AWS Well-Architected Framework’s six pillars so you can discuss cloud value in business terms — a skill that matters whether you are moving into a technical role or supporting AWS procurement decisions. Enrolment includes the Boost Pass Guarantee: if you sit the CLF-C02 exam and do not pass, you receive a complimentary course repeat at no additional charge.
What You'll Learn
- Explain core cloud computing concepts and the business value of migrating to AWS
- Describe the AWS global infrastructure including Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations
- Identify key AWS compute, storage, database, and networking services and their primary use cases
- Apply the AWS Shared Responsibility Model to determine customer versus AWS security obligations
- Configure basic IAM users, groups, roles, and policies to enforce least-privilege access
- Compare AWS pricing models — On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot — and estimate costs using the AWS Pricing Calculator
- Interpret AWS billing artefacts including Cost Explorer reports and consolidated billing under AWS Organizations
- Describe the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Identify support plans and explain when each tier is appropriate
- Map common migration and cloud adoption strategies to real-world business scenarios
Who This Course Is For
- IT professionals seeking a vendor-neutral foundation before pursuing Associate-level AWS certifications
- Business and sales staff who work alongside cloud engineering teams
- Project managers and product owners overseeing AWS-hosted workloads
- Students entering cloud computing careers
- System administrators beginning an AWS transition
Course Outline
- Defining cloud computing and deployment models (public, private, hybrid)
- Key advantages of cloud: elasticity, agility, pay-as-you-go economics
- AWS global infrastructure: Regions, Availability Zones, Local Zones, Wavelength Zones
- AWS Well-Architected Framework u2014 six pillars overview
- Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) perspectives
- Amazon EC2 instance types, purchasing options, and lifecycle
- AWS Lambda and serverless computing fundamentals
- Elastic Load Balancing and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
- Amazon VPC: subnets, route tables, internet gateways, NAT gateways
- Amazon CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator
- Live Lab: Launch an EC2 instance and configure a security group
- Amazon S3: storage classes, versioning, lifecycle policies, and static website hosting
- Amazon EBS, EFS, and FSx storage options
- Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon DynamoDB use cases
- AWS Snowball and AWS Storage Gateway for hybrid and migration scenarios
- Live Lab: Create an S3 bucket, apply a lifecycle policy, and host a static site
- AWS Shared Responsibility Model in depth
- IAM users, groups, roles, policies, and MFA enforcement
- AWS Organizations, Service Control Policies (SCPs), and consolidated billing
- Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Shield, AWS WAF, and Amazon Inspector
- AWS Artifact and compliance programmes (SOC, PCI-DSS, HIPAA)
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and CloudTrail audit logging
- Live Lab: Create IAM roles and attach least-privilege policies
- AWS pricing fundamentals: compute, storage, and data-transfer charges
- On-Demand vs Reserved Instances vs Savings Plans vs Spot Instances
- AWS Free Tier u2014 always-free, 12-month, and trial categories
- AWS Pricing Calculator, Cost Explorer, and AWS Budgets
- AWS support plans: Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, Enterprise
- Live Lab: Estimate a workload cost using the AWS Pricing Calculator
- AWS Well-Architected pillars applied: reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimisation
- The 7 Rs of migration (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, etc.)
- AWS Migration Hub, Database Migration Service (DMS), and Application Migration Service
- Disaster recovery strategies: backup/restore, pilot light, warm standby, multi-site active/active
- CLF-C02 domain weighting and question-type breakdown
- Full-length practice exam (65 scored questions)
- Domain-targeted review of weak areas
- Exam-day logistics: Pearson VUE check-in, ID requirements, result delivery
About the Certification Exam
- Exam code
- CLF-C02
- Length
- 90 minutes
- Questions
- 65 (scored) + up to 15 unscored pilot questions
- Passing score
- 700 out of 1000
- Exam cost
- ~$100 USD
- Where
- Pearson VUE / PSI online proctored or at an authorised testing centre
The certification exam fee is paid separately to the testing provider and is not included in the course price unless stated otherwise.
Live Labs Included
Hands-on practice on real environments
This course includes Live Labs — direct access to real hardware and cloud environments so you build the skills the exam actually tests.
- Launch an Amazon EC2 instance, assign an Elastic IP, and configure inbound/outbound security group rules
- Create an S3 bucket, enable versioning, apply a lifecycle policy to transition objects to S3-IA, and configure static website hosting
- Build an IAM user, create a custom least-privilege policy, and enforce MFA using AWS CLI and the console
- Estimate a three-tier web application cost using the AWS Pricing Calculator and compare On-Demand versus one-year Reserved Instance pricing
- Enable AWS CloudTrail logging and review API call history in the CloudTrail event history console
Pass Guarantee Included
Complete this course and if you don't pass the certification exam on your first attempt, we'll refund your course fee or give you a free retake — your choice.
