AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification in South Africa
Master core AWS cloud concepts, security, pricing & compliance essentials
16 hours of live, interactive sessions from certified AWS experts
4 modules designed to build your AWS Cloud expertise
High-quality mock exams to enhance CLF-C02 exam prep
Features hands-on simulations & engaging interactive labs
Experience the convenience of multiple learning modes
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Overview
What you will master with us:
- Builds skills to assess AWS Cloud benefits & infrastructure
- Teaches concepts of the five AWS Well-Architected pillars
- Provides tools for effective cloud adoption & migration
- Supports understanding of cloud economics & rightsizing techniques
- Helps explore the AWS shared responsibility model for security
- Develops expertise in AWS encryption & security services
- Prepares knowledge of AWS networking & security measures
- Builds the ability to manage AWS pricing & budgeting
Upcoming sessions
Curriculum
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Value proposition of the AWS Cloud
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Understanding the benefits of global infrastructure (for example, speed of deployment, global reach)
3
Understanding the advantages of high availability, elasticity, and agility
4
AWS Well-Architected Framework
5
Understanding the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework (for example, operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimisation, sustainability)
6
Identifying differences between the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework
7
Cloud adoption strategies
8
Resources to support the cloud migration journey
9
Understanding the components of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) (for example, reduced business risk; improved environmental, social and governance [ESG] performance; increased revenue; increased operational efficiency)
10
Identifying appropriate migration strategies (for example, database replication, use of AWS Snowball)
11
Aspects of cloud economics
12
Cost savings of moving to the cloud
13
Understanding the role of fixed costs compared with variable costs
14
Understanding the costs that are associated with on-premises environments
15
Understanding the differences between licensing strategies (for example, the Bring Your Own License [BYOL] model compared with included licenses)
16
Understanding the concept of rightsizing
17
Identifying the benefits of automation
18
Understanding the economies of scale (for example, cost savings)
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AWS shared responsibility model
2
Recognising the components of the AWS shared responsibility model
3
Describing the customer’s responsibilities on AWS
4
Describing AWS responsibilities
5
Describing responsibilities that the customer and AWS share
6
Describing how AWS's responsibilities and customer responsibilities can shift, depending on the service used (for example, Amazon RDS, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2)
7
AWS compliance and governance concepts
8
Benefits of cloud security (for example, encryption)
9
Where to capture and locate logs that are associated with cloud security
10
Identifying where to find AWS compliance information (for example, AWS Artifact)
11
Understanding compliance needs among geographic locations or industries (for example, AWS compliance)
12
Describing how customers secure resources on AWS (for example, Amazon Inspector, AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Shield)
13
Identifying encryption options (for example, encryption in transit, encryption at rest)
14
Recognising services that aid in governance and compliance (for example, monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch; auditing with AWS CloudTrail, AWS Audit Manager, and AWS Config; reporting with access reports)
15
Recognising compliance requirements that vary among AWS services
16
Identity and access management (for example, AWS Identity and Access Management [IAM])
17
Importance of protecting the AWS root user account
18
Principle of least privilege
19
AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On)
20
Understanding access keys, password policies, and credential storage (for example, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Systems Manager)
21
Identifying authentication methods in AWS (for example, multi-factor authentication [MFA], IAM Identity Center, cross-account IAM roles)
22
Defining groups, users, custom policies, and managed policies in compliance with the principle of least privilege
23
Identifying tasks that only the account root user can perform
24
Understanding which methods can achieve root user protection
25
Understanding the types of identity management (for example, federated)
26
Security capabilities that AWS provides
27
Security-related documentation that AWS provides
28
Describing AWS security features and services (for example, AWS WAF, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Shield, Amazon GuardDuty)
29
Understanding that third-party security products are available from AWS Marketplace
30
Identifying where AWS security information is available (for example, AWS Knowledge Center, AWS Security Center, AWS Security Blog)
31
Understanding the use of AWS services for identifying security issues (for example, AWS Trusted Advisor)
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Various ways of provisioning and operating in the AWS Cloud
2
Various ways to access AWS services
3
Types of cloud deployment models
4
Deciding between options such as programmatic access (for example, APIs, SDKs, CLI), the AWS Management Console, and infrastructure as code (IaC)
5
Evaluating requirements to determine whether to use one-time operations or repeatable processes
6
Identifying deployment models (for example, cloud, hybrid, on-premises)
7
AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations
8
High availability
9
Use of multiple Regions
10
Benefits of edge locations
11
Describing relationships among Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations
12
Describing how to achieve high availability by using multiple Availability Zones
13
Recognising that Availability Zones do not share a single point of failure
14
Describing when to use multiple Regions (for example, disaster recovery, business continuity, low latency for end users, data sovereignty)
15
AWS compute services
16
Recognising the appropriate use of various EC2 instance types (for example, compute optimised, storage optimised)
17
Recognising the proper use of various container options (for example, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS)
18
Recognising the proper use of various serverless compute options (for example, AWS Fargate, Lambda)
19
Recognising that auto scaling provides elasticity
20
Identifying the purposes of load balancers
21
AWS database services
22
Database migration
23
Deciding when to use EC2-hosted databases or AWS-managed databases
24
Identifying relational databases (for example, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora)
25
Identifying NoSQL databases (for example, DynamoDB)
26
Identifying memory-based databases (for example, Amazon ElastiCache)
27
Identifying database migration tools (for example, AWS Database Migration
28
Service [AWS DMS], AWS Schema Conversion Tool [AWS SCT])
29
AWS network services
30
Identifying the components of a VPC (for example, subnets, gateways)
31
Understanding security in a VPC (for example, network ACLs, security groups, Amazon Inspector)
32
Understanding the purpose of Amazon Route 53
33
Identifying network connectivity options to AWS (for example, AWS VPN, AWS Direct Connect)
34
AWS storage services
35
Identifying the uses for object storage
36
Recognising the differences in Amazon S3 storage classes
37
Identifying block storage solutions (for example, Amazon Elastic Block Store [Amazon EBS], instance store)
38
Identifying file services (for example, Amazon Elastic File System [Amazon EFS], Amazon FSx)
39
Identifying cached file systems (for example, AWS Storage Gateway)
40
Understanding use cases for lifecycle policies
41
Understanding use cases for AWS Backup
42
AWS AI/ML services
43
AWS analytics services
44
Understanding AI/ML services and the tasks that they accomplish (for example, Amazon SageMaker AI, Amazon Lex, Amazon Kendra)
45
Identifying the services for data analytics (for example, Amazon Athena, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Glue, Amazon QuickSight)
46
Application integration services of Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Simple
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Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
48
Business application services of Amazon Connect and Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)
49
Customer enablement services (for example, AWS Support)
50
Developer tool services and capabilities (for example, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, and AWS X-Ray)
51
End-user computing services of Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon WorkSpaces, and Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser
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Frontend web and mobile services of AWS Amplify and AWS AppSync
53
IoT services (for example, AWS IoT Core)
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Choosing the appropriate service to deliver messages and to send alerts and notifications
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Choosing the appropriate service to meet business application needs
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Choosing the appropriate option for business support assistance
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Identifying the tools to develop, deploy, and troubleshoot applications
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Identifying the services that can present the output of virtual machines (VMs) on end-user machines
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Identifying the services that can create and deploy frontend and mobile services
60
Identifying the services that manage IoT devices
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Compute purchasing options (for example, On-Demand Instances, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, Savings Plans, Dedicated Hosts, Dedicated Instances, Capacity Reservations)
2
Storage options and tiers
3
Identifying when to use various compute purchasing options
4
Describing Reserved Instance flexibility
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Describing Reserved Instance behaviour in AWS Organisations
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Understanding incoming data transfer costs and outgoing data transfer costs (for example, from one Region to another Region, within the same Region)
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Understanding pricing options for various storage options and tiers
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Billing support and information
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Pricing information for AWS services
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AWS Organizations
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AWS cost allocation tags
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Understanding the appropriate uses and capabilities of AWS Budgets, and AWS Cost Explorer
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Understanding the appropriate uses and capabilities of AWS Pricing Calculator
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Understanding AWS Organizations consolidated billing and allocation of costs
15
Understanding various types of cost allocation tags and their relation to billing reports (for example, AWS Cost and Usage Report)
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Resources and documentation available on official AWS websites
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AWS Support plans
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Role of the AWS Partner Network, including independent software vendors and system integrators
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AWS Support Center
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Locating AWS whitepapers, blogs, and documentation on the official AWS websites
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Identifying and locating AWS technical resources (for example, AWS Prescriptive Guidance, AWS Knowledge Center, AWS re: Post)
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Identifying AWS Support options for AWS customers (for example, customer service and communities, AWS Developer Support, AWS Business Support, AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support, AWS Enterprise Support)
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Identifying the role of the Trusted Advisor, AWS Health Dashboard, and the AWS Health API to help manage and monitor environments for cost optimisation
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Identifying the role of the AWS Trust and Safety team in reporting abuse of AWS resources
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Understanding the role of AWS Partners (for example, AWS Marketplace, independent software vendors, system integrators)
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Identifying the benefits of being an AWS Partner (for example, partner training and certification, partner events, and partner volume discounts)
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Identifying the key services that AWS Marketplace offers (for example, cost management, governance and entitlement)
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Identifying technical assistance options available at AWS (for example, AWS Professional Services, AWS Solutions Architects)
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Learning Outcomes
Once you complete the training, you will be able to:
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Master five AWS Well-Architected pillars for reliable cloud architecture
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Learn AWS Snowball & strategies for seamless cloud migration
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Understand cost optimisation, rightsizing, & budgeting for cloud scalability
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Explore AWS security tools like Shield, GuardDuty, & encryption
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Build scalable applications through AWS EC2, Lambda, & containers
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Develop hands-on skills in VPC & network ACLs
Learners Point Certificate
Earn a Course Completion Certificate, an official Learners Point credential that confirms that you have successfully completed a course with us.
Prerequisites
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification in South Africa does not require any formal prerequisites, which makes it ideal for beginners. Although prior experience isn’t mandatory, it is recommended:
- Having around six months of exposure to AWS in any role—be it technical, managerial, or sales
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Frequently asked questions
The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification in South Africa is designed to help professionals understand the basics of cloud computing and AWS services. You learn AWS global infrastructure, the Well-Architected Framework, cloud security, pricing models, and cost optimisation. This helps you attain the skills to deploy, manage, and secure AWS resources. This also prepares you for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) exam.
This training is meant for professionals from various fields, like -
- Beginners in cloud computing
- Non-technical workers
- Project managers
- Product owners
- IT support teams
- Business analysts
- Consultants
You do not have to fulfil any mandatory eligibility requirements to attend this training. However, having a basic experience of about six months working with AWS is suggested for better learning.
This is an entry-level certification exam for professionals who want to certify their basic AWS Cloud skills. The duration of the exam is 90 minutes. It includes 65 multiple-choice and multiple-response questions. You need a passing score of 700 out of 1000 to pass the exam.
In this AWS Cloud Practitioner Training in South Africa, professionals practice working on several tools through practical lab activities. These include tools like AWS CloudFormation, EC2, Lambda, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, Shield, GuardDuty, Cost Explorer, Route 53, SNS, and RDS.
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