School Of Ai Certified Cloud Practitioner (Foundational)

School Of Ai Certified Cloud Practitioner (Foundational)
Published 9/2025
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Master AWS Cloud basics: core concepts, services, pricing, security & exam prep for Cloud Practitioner success

What you’ll learn

Understand AWS core concepts: global infrastructure, agility, elasticity, and pay-as-you-go cloud pricing.

Identify key AWS services in compute, storage, databases, networking, AI/ML, IoT, and containers.

Apply AWS security by using IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch for access control and monitoring.

Estimate and manage AWS costs with the Pricing Calculator, Free Tier, Billing Dashboard, and cost models.

Evaluate AWS architectures using the Well-Architected Framework and its six guiding pillars.

Prepare for the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam with practice questions, study strategies, and real-world use cases.

Requirements

No prior cloud or IT experience required – this course is beginner-friendly.

A computer with internet access (Windows, macOS, or Linux).
A free AWS account (we’ll guide you step-by-step to create one safely).

Willingness to learn and practice hands-on labs in the AWS Console.

Basic familiarity with using web browsers and logging into online accounts is helpful but not mandatory.

Description

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to Cloud and AWS

Lecture 1 What is Cloud Computing?

Lecture 2 Benefits of Cloud: Agility, Elasticity, Pay-as-you-go

Lecture 3 AWS Global Infrastructure: Regions, AZs, Edge Locations

Lecture 4 Shared Responsibility Model

Lecture 5 Hands-on: Create a Free AWS Account & Explore AWS Console

Section 2: AWS Core Services

Lecture 6 Compute Overview: EC2, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail

Lecture 7 Storage Overview: S3, EBS, EFS, Glacier

Lecture 8 Databases: RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, Aurora

Lecture 9 Networking: VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, ELB

Lecture 10 Hands-on: Launch an EC2 instance + Host a Static Website on S3

Section 3: Security, Identity, and Compliance

Lecture 11 AWS Shared Security Model

Lecture 12 Identity and Access Management (IAM): Users, Groups, Roles, Policies

Lecture 13 Encryption, KMS, and Secrets Manager

Lecture 15 Hands-on: Create IAM Users with Permissions & MFA

Section 4: Cloud Economics and Billing

Lecture 16 AWS Pricing Models (On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, Savings Plans)

Lecture 17 AWS Pricing Calculator

Lecture 18 AWS Free Tier Explained

Lecture 19 Billing & Cost Management Dashboard

Lecture 20 Hands-on: Estimate EC2 & S3 Costs using AWS Calculator

Section 5: AWS Cloud Architecture and Support

Lecture 21 Well-Architected Framework – 6 Pillars

Lecture 22 AWS Support Plans (Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise)

Lecture 23 Monitoring & Logging (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Trusted Advisor)

Lecture 24 Migration & Hybrid Cloud (Snowball, Outposts, Storage Gateway)

Lecture 25 Hands-on: Enable CloudWatch Monitoring + View CloudTrail Logs

Section 6: Emerging Technologies on AWS

Lecture 26 Serverless Computing (Lambda, Step Functions)

Lecture 27 Containers (ECS, EKS, Fargate)

Lecture 28 AI & ML Services (SageMaker, Rekognition, Polly, Lex)

Lecture 29 IoT and Edge Computing on AWS

Lecture 30 Hands-on: Deploy a Simple Lambda Function

Section 7: Capstone Project

Lecture 31 Project: Build & Deploy a Cloud-Ready Web Application

Section 8: Exam Preparation

Lecture 32 Exam Guide Walkthrough (Domains & Weightage)

Lecture 33 Question Types and Traps

Lecture 34 Sample Questions with Explanations

Lecture 35 Study Strategy & Cheat Sheets
Section 9: Final Exam