Thursday, 19 February 2026

AWS Cloud Practitioner — Top 76 Must-Know Points (CLF-C02)

 


236. Edge Locations Count



CloudFront POPs worldwide (exam sometimes asks conceptually).



237. Regional Edge Caches



Bigger caches between origin and POP.



238. AWS Local Zones



Compute closer to users in metro cities.



239. Wavelength Zones



For 5G ultra-low latency edge compute.



240. AWS Outposts Rack



Smaller on-prem AWS hardware.



241. AWS Outposts Server



Even smaller, fits in standard IT rack.



242. AWS Egress Fees



Cost for data leaving AWS.



243. Public vs Elastic IP



Elastic IP → fixed, account-owned.



244. ENA (Elastic Network Adapter)



High-performance networking for EC2.



245. Global Accelerator vs CloudFront



GA → TCP/UDP app acceleration

CF → content delivery/caching



246. VPC Flow Logs



Capture network traffic metadata.



247. VPC Reachability Analyzer



Find connectivity issues.



248. IPv6 in VPC



Dual-stack possible.



249. AWS Shield Standard



Free DDoS protection.



250. AWS Route 53 Health Checks



Monitor endpoints & failover.



251. Route 53 Routing Policies



Simple, Weighted, Latency, Geolocation, Failover, Multi-value.



252. AWS IoT Fleet Hub



Monitor IoT devices fleet-wide.



253. AWS IoT Device Defender



Security audits for IoT devices.



254. AWS IoT Device Management



Scale registration + remote actions.



255. AWS RoboMaker



Robotics simulation & deployment.



256. Direct Connect Gateway



Connect DC to multiple VPCs across regions.



257. Transit Gateway Multicast



Support multicast traffic.



258. Cloud WAN



Global wide-area networking managed by AWS.



259. PrivateLink



Private access to services via interface endpoints.



260. Hybrid DNS with Route 53 Resolver



On-prem ↔ AWS DNS integration.





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SET-11 (25 Points) – Data, AI, Application Integration, Messaging




261. Kinesis Enhanced Fan-Out



1 MB/s per shard throughput for consumers.



262. Kinesis Extended Retention



Store streams up to 1 year.



263. Kinesis Shard Splitting



Increase capacity.



264. Kinesis Shard Merging



Reduce capacity.



265. SQS Delay Queue



Delay messages up to 15 min.



266. SQS Long Polling



Reduces empty responses → lowers cost.



267. SQS FIFO Throughput



Per-message ordering guaranteed.



268. SNS Mobile Push



Push to APNS/FCM.



269. SNS SMS Types



Promotional vs Transactional.



270. EventBridge Pipes



Point-to-point event flow between producer & consumer.



271. EventBridge Schedule



Cron-based serverless jobs.



272. Step Functions Express Workflow



High-throughput rapid workflows.



273. Glue DataBrew



Visual data preparation without coding.



274. Glue Elastic Views (Deprecated but exam concept)



Unified view of multiple data stores.



275. Lake Formation



Data lake permission control.



276. Redshift Spectrum Pricing



Pay only per scanned TB.



277. Redshift Materialized Views



Precomputed data for performance.



278. OpenSearch UltraWarm Storage



Warm storage tier.



279. OpenSearch Domain



Cluster of search nodes.



280. Forecast Use-Cases



Retail sales, cloud capacity, traffic prediction.



281. Personalize



Recommendation engine.



282. Lookout for Metrics



Detect anomalies using ML.



283. Lookout for Equipment



Predict equipment failures.



284. Textract Queries



Search for specific fields in documents.



285. Rekognition Custom Labels



Train custom image models.



286. Transcribe Call Analytics



Contact-center call analysis.



287. Polly Neural TTS



More natural speech.



288. Amazon Lex V2



Chatbot building (NLP + intent slots).



289. Amazon Bedrock (High-level concept)



Foundation models for GenAI (exam only conceptual).



290. AWS HealthLake



Healthcare data processing (HIPAA-ready).


AWS Cloud Practitioner — Top 76 Must-Know Points (CLF-C02)

  236. Edge Locations Count CloudFront POPs worldwide (exam sometimes asks conceptually). 237. Regional Edge Caches Bigger caches ...