AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide: CLF-C01 Exam

I had no experience nor knowledge whatsoever prior to taking exam. I purchased this book, studied, passed.

Ok just got the printed edition and expected a book 456 pages as it says. Nope it’s barely 270 including Appendices and Index. Not happy about that. Will revise my review based on content but not off to a good start so far.UPDATE:Despite the slim stature the content was spot-on. Passed the exam 900/1000 using this and A Cloud Guru along with practice tests and the official AWS White Papers.

Used this book as primary study material and passed the exam on my first attempt. Clearly material in book aligns well with exam topics, highly recommend.

The book it seems was written in a hurry. I'm currently on chapter 2 and found several typos. Also there are inaccuracies when the author tell you to do something on the screen. it doesn't match up with author's instructions. For instance, on page 25 under "Cost and Usage reports, the author says "Cost and usage reports are (right now, at least) accessed from the Reports link on the Billing Dashboard". Well... there is no link for Reports. on the Billing Dashboard. This is just one example. There are more areas where the book needs improvement. I'll give 2 stars for now but if I pass the test, I'll think about giving it a 4 star. I also tried to reach out the author. I still haven't received a response

- Very well written- Explains really well- Short digestible chapters- Challenging review questions force you to learn better and better as you move along- Good amount of hands-on experience with the exercises (everything worked perfectly)- Very good coverage of exam topics- Online practice exams are magnificent for training before the actual test

Getting access to the accompanying digital materials was really difficult and not helpful. The quizzes at the end of each chapter had me worried I would need to have memorized the exact URL for each AWS service, and memorize the algorithm for calculating the exact cost for enterprise support on a $8M monthly AWS bill. I wasted tens of hours memorizing useless information before finally taking practice tests through Udemy and aCloudGuru and realizing this book was terribly misleading. Not only did the book have me studding unnecessary info, it was outdated and didnt prepare me for a lot of the test questions. If I hadn't crammed with one of the other online courses the day before the test, I would have failed. Save your money, use Udemy, aCloudGuru, LinuxAcademy, or one of the dozens of other resources available.

Using this as my primary study material, I was able to pass the exam. You still need to read the whitepapers and Amazon recommended material, but the book is a great study guide. A couple of things may have changed - always check the Amazon Documentation as well.

I was looking for a book that would guide me through the curriculum for the practitioner exam. This is book is perfect for it. I used this book and used their link to online testing site, practiced it till I got a 95% score or above. This book is good enough to understand the logical reasoning, can get you the certification too, along with this I would recommend Udemy test papers and reading the AWS services whitelist. Good luck.

This book is comprehensive, up until a point.I read this book from cover to cover in the weeks leading up to the exam and I flew through the exam within 30 minutes and got a pass.The questions within the book, based on my own experience, are more difficult that those thrown at you in the exam. The questions at the end of each chapter are in particular more difficult and demand you know the specific technical details listed in the chapter - more than once I felt I may never pass the exam if that the caliber of questions thrown at me! As a result I threw 100+ hours into the revision when probably half of that was needed.I did feel that some topics, such as elastic load balancers was not covered in enough detail, with little snippets in different chapters. One of the later chapters has an exercise where it talks of application load balancers, but nowhere in the book is the fact there are three types of load balancers - application, network and classic. Half a page on this important service at least is needed.There is also an appendix at the end of the book listing services you'd need to know for the exam that weren't covered elsewhere, but I felt someone could easily miss this - It would be better if this were an actual chapter in the book rather than an appendix and I got asked at least 2 questions in the exam related to services listed there.I found some mistakes in the answers given to the end of chapter questions in Appendix A;Chapter 4, Question 4 answers are totally wrongChapter 4, Question 14 talks of Lamdba functions yet Lambda wasn't one of the options in the questionAlso one of the answers to the Assessment test is just plain wrong - Question 6 says that all support plans except Basic come with full TA access, yet chapter 3 and the Amazon AWS website say otherwise.Overall a good book and it helped me pass, but it could do with some tweaking to make it a great book.

Page 69, "You'll need an account and a password to prove who you are and that you have authority to log in." and shortly afterwards, "Not all passwords are created equal, if you want your account to have any chance of surviving an attack...."So, if I was completely new to IT and SW then this would be a great book.As an experienced professional who wants to get to grips with AWS this book goes over the basics from the very first, and assumes no understanding. So, a school leaver could pick this up and come out of the other end of the book with a good broad base understanding. Call it "Zero-to-Hero", but not quite getting to the hero, and that is not a criticism, there are other books for the remainder of the learning.I think this approach of "zero" and I do mean "zero" to hero is true to the AWS teaching methodology. For example, the AWS Well Architected Framework and particularly the five pillars would be great if you had never worked in software before, but to an experienced PM, lead developer, architect or consultant, an awful lot of it is old old old ground and repeated unnecessarily. This old ground takes up a lot of time, causes a lot if boredom and quite possibly contains subtle nuances that might be specific to AWS certification that we would innately understand and accommodate during our working practices, but possibly in an exam we would word the answer "incorrectly" when the correct answer should have been worded "wrong" - I used that last clause to illustrate how pedantic methodologies can be about specific words or phrases that mean the same, or nearly the same, but can cause one to fail the exam.So in short, a HUGE amount of information in this book is not new learning for those seasoned Tier 1 software/ IT professionals, except for the AWS technology aspects.It all makes for heavy going but thankfully nowhere near as tedious as the utterly pedantic and pointless crap that is ITIL or Prince.

I love books, even though im a tech nerd im not a fan of the e-book trend and cant beat learning from a traditonal text book. This combines the best parts of e books with the traditions of paper though, you get the feel of reading and taking notes from a text book while it includes a link for test material online.The syllabus is well laid out and all the topics are well covered, im an i.t novice and passed my AWS in less than a month using this (i am a bit above average in my learning capability though) if you spend about an hour a day on this you'll be certified in no time.

The book is great and the level of content and description is good but why or why do the links to additional online resources never work on books such as these? As a technical IT book, why do the publishers never actually get their networks to work correctly and provide the additional services provided in the book. It's ironic that the book is about IT and yet the publishers IT is a joke.

After a brief look at the AWS services available I became concerned that any publication would rapidly become4 dated in line with new products and services - the free tier for instance is a prince example of this.For a pedant such as myself - this presents a major issue in that just going through the chapter 2 review - the answers a fraught with errors.I get that this can be difficult to keep up with but none the less it is cause for concern