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Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Issued January 2026

The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) is a globally recognized foundational credential issued by Amazon Web Services. It validates an understanding of the AWS Cloud as a whole, covering core services, the shared responsibility security model, pricing structures, support plans, and architectural best practices. It is the entry point to the AWS certification pathway and is recognized across the industry as proof of cloud fluency.

Exam Domains Covered

  • Cloud Concepts (24%): AWS Cloud value proposition, the Well-Architected Framework, cloud economics and migration strategies, and the benefits of global infrastructure (regions, AZs, edge locations).
  • Security & Compliance (30%): the shared responsibility model, IAM (users, groups, roles, policies), AWS security services (Shield, WAF, Inspector, GuardDuty), compliance programs, and encryption at rest and in transit.
  • Cloud Technology & Services (34%): core compute (EC2, Lambda, ECS), storage (S3, EBS, EFS, Glacier), databases (RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift), networking (VPC, CloudFront, Route 53), and developer tools (CloudFormation, CodePipeline, Elastic Beanstalk).
  • Billing, Pricing & Support (12%): pricing models (On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, Savings Plans), AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, the Total Cost of Ownership calculator, and support plan tiers.
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Oracle

Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer

Issued July 2025

The Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer (1Z0-808) is a vendor-issued credential from Oracle Corporation that validates proficiency in the Java SE 8 programming language. It covers object-oriented design principles, core Java APIs, and language-level features introduced in Java 8. It serves as the first step in Oracle’s Java certification pathway and demonstrates a solid, exam-verified command of Java fundamentals.

Exam Domains Covered

  • Java Basics: defining the scope of variables, structure of a Java class, the main method, importing packages, and understanding the Java class path.
  • Data Types & String APIs: primitive types, wrapper classes, autoboxing, the String, StringBuilder, and ArrayList APIs, and casting.
  • Operators & Decision Constructs: operator precedence, equality vs. identity for objects, if, if/else, ternary, and switch statements.
  • Arrays & Loop Constructs: one- and multi-dimensional arrays, for, enhanced for, while, do/while, break, and continue.
  • Methods & Encapsulation: method overloading, static vs. instance methods, access modifiers, this keyword, constructors, and JavaBeans naming conventions.
  • Inheritance & Polymorphism: extending classes, overriding methods, the super keyword, abstract classes, interfaces, and casting reference types.
  • Exception Handling: checked vs. unchecked exceptions, try/catch/finally, multi-catch, and common exception classes in the Java SE 8 API.