Welcome to the CCP Cloud Practitioner AWS Academy Self-Study Guide and Materials (Version 2.0.13)! π This comprehensive guide is designed to help you ace your cloud certification journey. Whether you're a beginner or looking to refresh your knowledge, this guide has got you covered. β
The materials in this guide are not all created by me but were collected through research and peers recommendation. My intention is not to claim ownership of any content but to provide a resource that can assist others in their cloud certification journey, just as it helped me. I hope this compilation of resources benefits everyone seeking to learn and grow in the field of cloud computing. π―
To effectively navigate through the study materials, I recommend using the SQ4R method. This structured approach enhances comprehension and retention:
- S β Survey: Quickly scan through the material to get an overview.
- Q β Question: Formulate questions about the topics you are about to study.
- R β Read: Read actively while looking for answers to your questions.
- R β Recite: Summarize what you learned in your own words.
- R β Review: Go over the material periodically to reinforce your learning.
- R β Reflect: Connect the new knowledge with what you already know.
Each resource is highly recommended by different peers. Some prefer DIONβs training notes, others find Stephanβs Udemy course more effective. Choose what works best for you!
- π Udemy Course PDF Slides
- π Public Online Self-Study Notes (DION Training)
- π AWS Official Materials
- π Cheat Sheets & Concept PDFs
Personally, I found Stephan's PDF with concept assets the most useful! π
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As I share my journey with you, at the beginning, I discovered AWS Academy materials. While they are great as PDFs for printable study notes, they felt a bit too basic and not enough for a first deep dive into the cloud. I faced numerous challenges in understanding the "HOW To & Why," not just the "What is."
So, I did some research on Udemy and YouTube, and here are the learning resources I found:
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π₯ Metwally Labs: Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Description: Discusses cloud concepts, their origins, and the revolutionary steps in each IT service delivery.
- Description: Discusses cloud concepts, their origins, and the revolutionary steps in each IT service delivery.
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π₯ Cloud Simplified: Cloud Benefits Explained
- Description: Talks about the benefits of the cloud and why we should move to it, highlighting various reasons beyond just cost reduction.
- Description: Talks about the benefits of the cloud and why we should move to it, highlighting various reasons beyond just cost reduction.
I purchased and completed a highly-rated Udemy course by Stephan
Inside the folder of the course materials, you will have:
- Codes used in the course
- Slides with my idea to recap quickly through drawing a complete index of each concept and topic inside the PDF so I can search, query, and get the bird's eye view quickly, very quickly, while building the concepts step by step in my mind through the journey
- π YouTube Playlist
- π YouTube Playlist
Those two Arabic playlists are amazing, short, to the point, and not as comprehensive as the Udemy end-to-end full course. However, they helped me gain the concepts with metaphors in my mind, so I got extra benefit from the Stephan Udemy course. All the materials from the course, as the instructor put them in the YouTube channel, are here in the ArabicChanel folder with all summary files, PPTs, and so on.
The materials are just for scanning, with animated graphs and general concepts, but your main studying document is from the UDEMY STEPHAN PDF.
I have put all my effort into gathering exam preparation tips and tricks, exam sets, questions from other peer GitHub repos, a free book, links for dumps, AWS free online exam sets, and finally ALX Resources Exam Set with explanations. "It's Amazing by the way."
So, in the Exam Preparation folder, you will have ordered as I recommend to go through:
- β Concepts Texts
- β ALX Resources Bank: Exam Questions with Explanation
- β Complete Set of Exams
- β Self-Study Notes and Cheat Sheet
- β Anki Deck for Question Rehearsal
- β Knowledge Checks
- β Practice Questions
- β Online Exam Questions Sets
Final Note: If you have reserved a time for the exam and want to scan or reference another explanation or instructor to enrich your study, I would recommend taking two weeks for exam preparation. Go through my recommended set of questions and also review any of these YouTube full courses:
And for Arabic natives: This video from Cloud Simplified is amazing and talks about how to prepare for the exam:
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