📦 Shared Resources
📦 Shared Resources
Cheat sheets, exam prep, glossaries, and “I wish someone had told me” tips.
📑 Cheat sheets
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
aws-cli-cheatsheet.md |
The 30 AWS CLI commands you’ll actually use |
iam-policy-examples.md |
Copy-paste IAM policies for common scenarios |
git-commands-cheatsheet.md |
The git commands you actually need (no esoterica) |
streamlit-quick-reference.md |
Streamlit’s most useful patterns |
📅 These will be added throughout the bootcamp. Open issues if you want one prioritized.
🎓 Cloud Practitioner Exam Prep
The bootcamp gets you ready for the exam. To actually sit and pass it:
- 📖 Official exam guide (CLF-C02)
- 🎯 cloudwithshad practice quizzes (link coming soon — Shadrack's own question bank)
- 📺 freeCodeCamp’s 14-hour AWS course (free on YouTube)
- 💵 Exam cost: $100 (taken online or at a Pearson VUE center)
- 🏆 Pass mark: 700 / 1000 (~70%)
Bootcamp coverage vs the exam
| Exam domain | Bootcamp coverage |
|---|---|
| Cloud concepts (24%) | ✅ Weeks 1-2 |
| Security & compliance (30%) | ✅ Week 2 (IAM, SGs, NACLs) + cherry-picked across |
| Technology & services (34%) | ✅ All 4 weeks |
| Billing & support (12%) | ✅ Week 1 + scattered tips |
The bootcamp gets you to ~85% exam readiness. The last 15% comes from practice tests.
💼 Career resources
github-portfolio-tips.md— how to make your GitHub a CV in disguiselinkedin-cloud-roles-guide.md— finding cloud roles in West Africa + remotecv-template-cloud-engineer.md— a clean CV template optimised for cloud roles
🗺️ Glossary
| Term | Means |
|---|---|
| AMI | Amazon Machine Image — the template an EC2 boots from |
| ASG | Auto Scaling Group |
| AZ | Availability Zone — a data center within a region |
| CIDR | Classless Inter-Domain Routing — IP notation like 10.0.0.0/16 |
| IAM | Identity and Access Management |
| NACL | Network Access Control List — subnet-level firewall |
| SG | Security Group — instance-level firewall |
| VPC | Virtual Private Cloud — your isolated network in AWS |
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