Certified Cloud Practitioner (CCP)

This course is a great starting point for the AWS Certification journey. No prerequisites or experience required for this course. Most of our students start here.

Difficulty: Beginner Level
22 sections, 260 lessons
14 hours total of video lectures

Course Description

Master AWS Cloud with our comprehensive AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CCP) course! Gain hands-on experience as you explore core AWS concepts, services, and best practices.

Dive into key topics like IAM, EC2, VPC, databases, serverless computing, and cost management. With practical setups, exclusive materials, and a pass-or-we-pay guarantee, this course ensures you’re not only prepared to ace the exam but also equipped with real-world skills to thrive in cloud computing.

Who this course is for

IT Professionals Advancing or Transitioning into Cloud Roles

Developers and Engineers Needing Cloud Skills to Stay Competitive

Cloud Practitioners Validating or Expanding their AWS Skills

Course Outline

Course Content

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Welcome to the course!

10 lessons - 30 min

Welcome from Kirill 01:48
AWS Certifications & Exam Overview 05:31
Pass-Or-We-Pay Exam Guarantee 02:08
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Welcome from Hadelin 01:06
Create a Free-Tier Account [Hands-On] 04:48
Set up a Billing Alarm [Hands-On] 04:29
Root User vs. Admin User [Hands-On] 04:59
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) 02:14
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) [Hands-On] 03:54

Cloud Computing Foundations

7 lessons - 24 min

What is Cloud Computing? 04:36
Cloud Service Models 02:39
AWS Regions and Availability Zones 03:32
AWS Regions and Availability Zones [Hands-On] 03:58
High Availability (HA) & Disaster Recovery 05:15
Shared Responsibility Model in AWS 04:04
Quiz

Identity Access Management (IAM)

10 lessons - 36 min

Intro to IAM 02:03
IAM User Permissions & Policies 06:58
IAM User Permissions & Policies [Hands-On] 05:59
IAM Groups 02:19
IAM Groups [Hands-On] 05:14
IAM Roles 02:33
AWS CLI & CloudShell 02:34
AWS CloudShell [Hands-On] 03:59
AWS CLI [Hands-On] (Optional) 04:42
Quiz

Simple Storage Service (S3)

22 lessons - 87 min

What is S3? 03:50
Quick Win 04:51
Encryption 01:11
Encryption [Hands-On] 04:52
Object Versioning 03:55
Object Versioning [Hands-On] 05:18
Storage Classes 06:14
Intelligent Tiering 03:47
Lifecycle Configuration 03:53
Storage Classes, Tiering and Configuration [Hands-On] 04:52
Resource-Based Policies (Bucket Policies) 03:33
Resource-Based Policies (Bucket Policies) [Hands-On] 06:33
Replication (SRR & CRR) 03:04
Replication [Hands-On] 07:47
Static Hosting 01:24
Static Hosting [Hands-On] 06:24
Multi-Part Upload 02:15
Transfer Acceleration 04:28
Object Lock & Glacier Vault Lock 01:43
S3 Access Logs 01:16
S3 Access Logs [Hands-On] 06:22
Quiz

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

23 lessons - 96 min

What is EC2? 02:15
Virtualization 03:03
EC2 Instance Types 04:27
EC2 Behind the Scenes 02:44
EC2 [Hands-On] 05:59
Security Groups 03:55
Security Groups [Hands-On] 05:58
SSH and Instance Connect 00:42
Instance Connect [Hands-On] 04:50
SSH [Hands-On] (Mac & Linux) 08:48
SSH [Hands-On] (Windows 8 or lower) 07:27
SSH [Hands-On] (Windows 10 or higher) 07:24
IAM Roles for EC2 01:41
IAM Roles for EC2 [Hands-On] 08:29
Instance Purchase Options 02:14
Spot Instances 02:46
Reserved Instances Overview 02:28
Reserved Instances Options ("Roadtrip" mnemonic) 05:53
Savings Plan 04:33
Dedicated Instances and Hosts 03:48
Capacity Reservations 02:15
Instance Purchase Options [Hands-On] 04:58
Quiz

Elastic Block Store (EBS) & Instance Store & EFS

15 lessons - 49 min

File vs Block vs Object Storage Types 04:13
EBS Behind The Scenes 02:36
Types of EBS Volumes 02:56
EBS [Hands-On] 07:03
EBS Snapshots 04:10
EBS Snapshot Archive 00:48
EBS Snapshots [Hands-On] 03:59
Amazon Machine Image (AMI) 03:59
AMIs [Hands-On] 06:27
Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) 03:34
Instance Store Behind The Scenes 03:15
Instance Store Volume Types 01:19
Amazon EFS 03:01
Amazon FSx 02:15
Quiz

Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and Auto Scaling (ASG)

10 lessons - 35 min

Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) 03:59
Types of Load Balancers 01:48
EC2 Launch Template [Hands-On] 03:56
Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) [Hands-On] 06:58
Auto Scaling Group (ASG) 03:59
ASG Scaling Policies 04:12
Auto Scaling Group (ASG) [Hands-On] (Part 1) 04:16
Auto Scaling Group (ASG) [Hands-On] (Part 2) 04:09
Section Cleanup 01:59
Quiz

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) & Networking

21 lessons - 67 min

Amazon VPC 02:56
Public & Private Subnets 02:20
CIDR Notation & CIDR Blocks 06:34
Subnetting your VPC 02:28
Amazon VPC [Hands-On] Part 1 05:59
Internet & NAT Gateways 03:17
Route Tables 05:44
Amazon VPC [Hands-On] Part 2 04:54
Stateful vs. Stateless Firewalls 03:38
Network ACLs (NACLs) 04:10
Network ACLs [Hands-On] 03:38
AWS Public and Private Services 01:31
Gateway & Interface Endpoints 03:46
Gateways vs. Endpoints 01:11
AWS PrivateLink 01:45
VPC Peering 02:06
VPC Architecture Exercise 02:08
VPC Architecture Exercise [Hands-On] Part 1 04:55
VPC Architecture Exercise [Hands-On] Part 2 02:19
Section Cleanup 01:57
Quiz

Hybrid Cloud

7 lessons - 19 min

Types of Cloud Deployments 02:49
Site-to-Site VPN 02:43
Direct Connect (DX) 04:00
Transit Gateway 03:19
AWS Client VPN 02:47
AWS Outposts 03:57
Quiz

Databases and Analytics

18 lessons - 53 min

Introduction to Databases (SQL vs NoSQL) 05:13
What is RDS? 02:13
RDS Multi-AZ & Read-Replicas 05:50
Amazon Aurora 02:04
Amazon RDS [Hands-On] 06:49
ElastiCache 03:34
What is Dynamo DB? 02:59
DynamoDB Global Tables 02:15
DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) 02:43
DynamoDB [Hands-On] 05:21
DocumentDB 03:13
Database Migration Service (DMS) 01:32
Amazon Neptune 01:16
Amazon Redshift (OLAP vs OLTP) 04:16
Amazon Athena 01:02
AWS Glue 01:31
Amazon Kinesis 01:47
Quiz

Machine Learning

12 lessons - 33 min

Machine Learning Services Overview 03:15
Amazon Polly [Hands-On] 01:58
Amazon Transcribe [Hands-On] 01:59
Amazon Textract [Hands-On] 01:57
Amazon Personalize [Hands-On] 05:59
Amazon Rekognition [Hands-On] 02:57
Amazon Lex [Hands-On] 04:59
Amazon Comprehend [Hands-On] 05:59
Amazon Translate [Hands-On] 01:58
Amazon Bedrock - Chat and Text Generation [Hands-On] 01:56
Amazon Bedrock - Image Generation [Hands-On] 00:44
Quiz

Containers & Decoupling

9 lessons - 31 min

Docker & Containerized Applications 04:10
Elastic Container Service (ECS), Fargate, ECR 03:09
Microservices & Decoupling 04:51
Simple Queue Service (SQS) 06:00
Simple Queue Service (SQS) [Hands-On] 03:34
Simple Notification Service (SNS) 03:45
Simple Notification Service (SNS) [Hands-On] 04:51
Amazon MQ 01:37
Quiz

Serverless Services

8 lessons - 29 min

What is Serverless? 03:25
Lambda 04:23
Lambda [Hands-On] 06:28
EventBridge 05:42
EventBridge [Hands-On] 05:57
Step Functions 01:45
API Gateway 01:38
Quiz

Automation, Deployment & Developer Tools

12 lessons - 36 min

CloudFormation 04:13
CloudFormation [Hands-On] 06:57
Cloud Development Kit (CDK) 02:09
Elastic Beanstalk 02:37
Elastic Beanstalk [Hands-On] 07:59
CodePipeline: CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy 04:14
AWS CodeArtifact 01:41
AWS Cloud9 00:55
AWS CodeStar 01:31
Amazon CodeGuru 02:24
AWS X-Ray 01:40
Quiz

Application & Infrastructure Monitoring

10 lessons - 28 min

AWS Health Dashboard 02:26
AWS Health Dashboard [Hands-On] 02:51
CloudWatch Metrics & Alarms 03:46
CloudWatch Metrics & Alarms [Hands-On] 06:59
CloudWatch Metrics & Alarms [Hands-On Bonus] 00:59
CloudWatch Logs 02:06
CloudWatch Logs [Hands-On] 03:59
CloudTrail 02:51
CloudTrail [Hands-On] 02:57
Quiz

Encryption & Security

13 lessons - 49 min

Encryption Fundamentals 05:22
Types of Encryption 03:20
Key Management Service (KMS) 04:35
Key Management Service (KMS) [Hands-On] 06:28
Data Encryption Key (DEK) 04:32
AWS Secrets Manager 02:21
AWS Secrets Manager [Hands-On] 06:20
Web Application Firewall (WAF) 04:41
AWS Shield 03:36
Web Application Firewall (WAF) and AWS Shield [Hands-On] 03:46
WAF Cleanup [Hands-On] 01:59
Amazon GuardDuty 01:03
Amazon Macie 01:03

Management & Governance

13 lessons - 40 min

AWS Organizations 03:32
Service Control Policies (SCPs) 03:28
AWS Organizations & SCP [Hands-On] Part 1 04:59
AWS Organizations & SCPs [Hands-On] Part 2 04:27
Control Tower 01:25
Control Tower [Hands-On] 05:59
AWS Config 01:36
AWS Config [Hands-On] 04:59
Trusted Advisor 01:19
Systems Manager (SSM) 02:05
SSM Session Manager 02:00
SSM Session Manager [Hands-On] 04:58
Quiz

Billing, Budgets & Support

19 lessons - 55 min

AWS Support Plans 07:31
AWS Consolidated Billing 03:31
AWS Cost Management Tools Overview 03:14
Pricing Calculator 01:38
Pricing Calculator [Hands-On] 04:58
AWS Budgets 02:23
AWS Budgets [Hands-On] 03:45
Billing Dashboard 01:56
Billing Dashboard [Hands-On] 03:25
Cost Allocation Tags 01:22
Cost Allocation Tags [Hands-On] 04:59
Cost & Usage Reports (CUR) 01:22
Cost & Usage Reports (CUR) [Hands-On] - Part 1 01:58
Cost & Usage Reports (CUR) [Hands-On] - Part 2 05:25
Cost Explorer 01:22
Cost Explorer [Hands-On] 03:57
Cost Anomaly Detection 01:32
Compute Optimizer 01:36
Quiz

Additional Services

3 lessons - 12 min

Route 53 and DNS 05:33
Route 53 and DNS [Hands-On] 05:59
CloudFront Intro 01:25

AWS Frameworks and Best Practices

10 lessons - 35 min

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) 06:52
AWS Well-Architected Framework Overview 04:20
1st Pillar: Operational Excellence 02:31
2nd Pillar: Security 02:47
3rd Pillar: Reliability 02:32
4th Pillar: Performance Efficiency 02:42
5th Pillar: Cost Optimization 02:22
6th Pillar: Sustainability 02:52
The Lenses 03:33
Well-Architected Tool [Hands-On] 04:29

Practice Exams

6 lessons - 0 min

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Practice Exam #1
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Practice Exam #2
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Practice Exam #3
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Practice Exam #4
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Practice Exam #5
Practice exam solutions

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1 lessons - 0 min

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Kirill Eremenko

Co-Founder and Instructor

With ten years of experience in online education, Kirill is an industry expert. Having created more than 40 online courses, he has taught over three million students on Udemy.

Kirill’s many qualifications include Certified Cloud Practitioner, Certified AI Practitioner, Certified Solutions Architect (Associate), and Certified Machine Learning Engineer (Associate).

Hadelin de Ponteves

Co-Founder and Instructor

With ten years of experience in online education, Hadelin is an industry expert. Having created more than 40 online courses, he has taught over two million students on Udemy.

Hadelin’s many certifications include Certified Cloud Practitioner, Certified AI Practitioner, Certified Solutions Architect (Associate), and Certified Machine Learning Engineer (Associate).

Sam Bashton

Head Instructor

I’m excited to contribute to the CloudWolf community: I’ve been working with AWS for over 15 years, and I’m just as passionate about the opportunities the cloud offers as the day I started. Now I’m even more excited to join the CloudWolf community to share my knowledge and train people on leveraging AWS to its fullest potential.

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