AWS Cloud Practitioner · COVERAGE & GAPSAWS Cloud Practitioner: Coverage Map & Learning Gaps
Selected foundations: 64 original practice tasks, 14 lessons, 42 retrieval cards and four standalone guides. Official coverage remains partial; not a full syllabus, official mock or score predictor.
Cloud value and demand response
Partial practice1 linked question families · 2 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- Agility and elasticity examples are selected; wider business benefits and evidence of outcomes are not exhaustively treated.
Design-principle intent
Partial practice1 linked question families · 2 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- Introduce all six pillars in teaching, assess selected contrasts only; not a Well-Architected workload review.
Migration constraints
Partial practice1 linked question families · 2 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- Selected staged-migration reasoning only; CAF perspectives, full migration strategies, and migration programs not comprehensively taught.
Cloud economics
Partial practice2 linked question families · 4 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- Selected fixed/variable, rightsizing and automation reasoning; licensing/BYOL and complete TCO analysis not covered.
Service-dependent responsibility
Partial practice2 linked question families · 4 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- EC2/RDS/Lambda conceptual boundaries only; not a complete service-by-service control allocation.
Security evidence and compliance
Partial practice2 linked question families · 4 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- Metrics, activity evidence, encryption and reports selected; AWS Config, access reports and industry/service-specific compliance not exhaustively covered.
Identity and least privilege
Partial practice2 linked question families · 4 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- Authentication/authorization, roles, root/MFA principles selected; full policy evaluation, identity federation flows and root-only task list deferred.
Security resources
Partial practice1 linked question families · 2 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- Official evidence and source-discovery subset only; GuardDuty/Inspector/WAF/Shield/Firewall Manager and Marketplace comparisons deferred.
Access and repeatable provisioning
Partial practice1 linked question families · 2 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- Console versus repeatability concept only; SDK/API/CLI workflows and deployment-model taxonomy not comprehensively assessed.
Global infrastructure
Partial practice2 linked question families · 4 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- Region/AZ/edge and selected failure/residency distinctions; no architecture design or disaster-recovery implementation.
Compute service choice
Partial practice2 linked question families · 4 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- EC2/Lambda and scaling/load-balancing purposes only; ECS/EKS/Fargate details and instance-family selection deferred.
Database service fit
Partial practice2 linked question families · 4 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- RDS/DynamoDB/DMS purposes only; Aurora/ElastiCache breadth, SCT details and database operations deferred.
Network service purposes
Partial practice2 linked question families · 4 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- VPC, security-group purpose, Route 53, VPN/Direct Connect concepts; NACL details, gateways and actual network design deferred.
Storage interface and retention
Partial practice2 linked question families · 4 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- S3/EBS/EFS, selected retention and backup reasoning; FSx, instance store, Storage Gateway and exhaustive storage-class properties deferred.
AI/ML and analytics
Partial practice9 linked question families · 9 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- Selected analytics/AI input-output comparisons only; SageMaker implementation, full AI/ML taxonomy and all official examples remain outside this foundation.
Other service categories
Partial practice7 linked question families · 7 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- Selected integration, desktop/application delivery and email boundaries only; business applications, IoT and other official service examples remain incomplete.
Pricing and supplied-data costs
Partial practice2 linked question families · 4 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- On-Demand/Spot selection and fictional subtotal reasoning only; Reserved/Savings commitment nuances, dedicated/capacity options, storage pricing and real transfer rates deferred.
Cost-management evidence
Partial practice2 linked question families · 4 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- Calculator, Cost Explorer, Budgets and a conceptual consolidated allocation case; detailed reports/tags/Organizations behavior not fully assessed.
Technical help and status
Partial practice1 linked question families · 2 variants. Variants are not separate syllabus objectives.
What still needs work
- Only documentation/status/account-support purpose distinction; current plan prices, response times, entitlements, Partner/Marketplace/Professional Services breadth deferred.
