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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) practice exam and study path

A free, timed 65-question CLF-C02 practice exam — 90 minutes, the same length as the real exam, scored by domain, with every option explained after you submit. Also 96 practice questions you can check one at a time, a page for every task in the exam guide, and a study path. No sign-up.

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Cloud Practitioner exam pack:

$19once

The broad first exam: what the cloud is for, who secures what, the core services, and how AWS charges for them. No coding and no architecture design.

The exam

Exam code
CLF-C02
Questions
65 questions (50 scored)
Time
90 minutes
Passing score
700 of 1,000 (scaled)
Exam fee
$100 (USD)
Question types
multiple choice, multiple response

From AWS's certification page and exam guide, checked Oct 4, 2026. The exam is scored as a whole (compensatory): there is no pass mark per domain.

Domains and weights

  • Domain 1: Cloud Concepts

    24%

  • Domain 2: Security and Compliance

    30%

  • Domain 3: Cloud Technology and Services

    34%

  • Domain 4: Billing, Pricing, and Support

    12%

Practice

96 original practice questions, every option explained with the AWS documentation page that proves it. Free, no sign-up; progress stays on this device.

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More practice exams

The lessons, the sample questions on every task page and the first full practice exam are free and stay free. A pack adds the further timed CLF-C02 practice exams.

Cloud Practitioner exam pack

$19once

  • Every paid CLF-C02 practice exam, timed, with every option explained
  • The next version of this exam included when it changes
  • Lifetime access — one payment, no subscription
  • 14-day refund, no conditions
  • 14-day refund, no conditions: ask within 14 days of buying and you get the whole payment back.
  • No pass guarantee. These are practice exams written by us from the exam guide and the AWS documentation; a score here does not predict your result on the real exam.

Study path

One module per exam domain. Lessons that already exist on BytePatterns are linked; the rest are being written.

  1. Module 1: Cloud Concepts

    1. 1Why cloud: elasticity, agility and global reachTask 1.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 2Well-Architected: the six pillarsTask 1.2

      Partly covered by: Design a System on AWS

    3. 3Migration: the Cloud Adoption Framework and migration strategiesTask 1.3

      Partly covered by: Migration: The 7 Rs, TCO & Waves

    4. 4Cloud economics: fixed vs variable cost, BYOL, rightsizingTask 1.4

      Lesson coming

  2. Module 2: Security and Compliance

    1. 5Shared responsibility, service by serviceTask 2.1

      Lesson: Shared Responsibility & IAM

    2. 6IAM: users, groups, roles, policies and least privilegeTask 2.3

      Lesson: Shared Responsibility & IAM

    3. 7Root user, MFA, IAM Identity Center and federationTask 2.3

      Lesson coming

    4. 8Encryption in transit and at rest, KMS basicsTask 2.2

      Lesson coming

    5. 9Governance and audit: CloudTrail, Config, CloudWatch, ArtifactTask 2.2

      Partly covered by: CloudWatch, Alarms & X-Ray

    6. 10Security services: GuardDuty, Inspector, Security Hub, Shield, WAF, Firewall Manager, Trusted AdvisorTask 2.4

      Lesson coming

  3. Module 3: Cloud Technology and Services

    1. 11Console, CLI, SDKs and infrastructure as code; deployment modelsTask 3.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 12Regions, Availability Zones and edge locationsTask 3.2

      Partly covered by: CloudFront & Caching Layers

    3. 13EC2 instance typesTask 3.3

      Partly covered by: EC2, Auto Scaling & Load Balancers

    4. 14Auto Scaling and load balancersTask 3.3

      Lesson: EC2, Auto Scaling & Load Balancers

    5. 15Containers and serverless: ECS, EKS, Fargate, LambdaTask 3.3

      Lesson: Lambda & Event-Driven Design, ECS vs EKS vs Fargate

    6. 16Databases: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, DMS and SCTTask 3.4

      Partly covered by: RDS vs DynamoDB

    7. 17Networking: VPC, security groups vs network ACLs, Route 53, VPN and Direct ConnectTask 3.5

      Partly covered by: VPC: Subnets, NAT & Firewalls

    8. 18Storage: S3 classes and lifecycle, EBS and instance store, EFS and FSx, Storage Gateway, BackupTask 3.6

      Partly covered by: S3: Consistency, Classes, Lifecycle

    9. 19AI/ML and analytics servicesTask 3.7

      Lesson coming

    10. 20Integration and other services: SQS, SNS, EventBridge, SES, Connect, Amplify, IoT Core, WorkSpaces, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, X-RayTask 3.8

      Partly covered by: SQS vs SNS vs EventBridge

  4. Module 4: Billing, Pricing, and Support

    1. 21Purchase options: On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Spot, Savings Plans, DedicatedTask 4.1

      Lesson: AWS Cost Levers

    2. 22Data transfer and storage pricingTask 4.1

      Lesson coming

    3. 23Budgets, Cost Explorer, Pricing Calculator, consolidated billing and cost allocation tagsTask 4.2

      Lesson coming

    4. 24Support plans, re:Post, Trusted Advisor, Health Dashboard, Partners and MarketplaceTask 4.3

      Lesson coming

Every task in the exam guide

The exam guide splits each domain into task statements. Each one has a page with a short summary, the lessons that teach it and open sample questions.

Domain 1: Cloud Concepts

Domain 2: Security and Compliance

Domain 3: Cloud Technology and Services

Domain 4: Billing, Pricing, and Support

How these questions are made

  • Written by us from the exam guide's task statements and the AWS documentation — never from real exam content.
  • Every option carries its own explanation and a link to the AWS page that proves it.
  • A question enters a timed exam only after an independent check; until then it is a practice question.
  • Results are a plain percentage, per domain too — not an imitation of AWS's scaled score.

Questions about the CLF-C02 practice exam

Is the CLF-C02 practice exam free?
Yes. The full practice exam (65 questions, 90 minutes) is free with no sign-up, and so are the 96 practice questions, the task pages and the study path. Your attempts are saved in this browser, on this device.
How many questions does it have, and is it timed?
65 questions in 90 minutes: the same number of questions and the same time as the real CLF-C02 exam. When the time runs out, the exam is submitted as it stands, and unanswered questions count as wrong.
Are the answers explained?
After you submit, not during: like the real exam, the timed exam gives no feedback until the end. Then you get your score overall and per exam domain, and every question with each option explained and a link to the AWS documentation page behind it. In practice mode an answer is explained as soon as you check it.
What does the Cloud Practitioner exam pack add?
3 more timed practice exams (Practice exam 1: 65 questions, 90 minutes; Practice exam 2: 65 questions, 90 minutes; Practice exam 3: 65 questions, 90 minutes), each scored and explained the same way, and the next version of this exam when it changes. One payment, lifetime access, no subscription. Everything above stays free. See the pack.
Can I get a refund?
Yes, with no conditions: ask within 14 days of buying and you get the whole payment back. The details are in the terms.
Is this an official AWS practice exam?
No. BytePatterns is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Amazon Web Services. Every question is written by us from the public exam guide and the AWS documentation, never from real exam content, and a score here does not predict your result on the real exam. AWS lists its own preparation resources on its certification page.