HNY! For those of you that took the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam, how did you prepare for it? Study materials, hours, etc?

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CCP is pretty straightforward. Look up YouTube video from Exam Pro. It’s around 3.5 hours of video covering everything. Watch it couple times and try exam questions available online. That should be good enough

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Udemy course was my goto

Same here. Udemy also worked for GCP and AZ-900. It’s legit

Cloud guru was great but I had a free subscription - probably free resources that will do the trick for practitioner

A cloud guru and the official AWS white papers and AWS free training. note: did have some experience using AWS prior to taking it

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