Free CLF-C02 mock exams
Full-length AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner rehearsals: 65 questions in 90 minutes, drawn to the official domain weights and scored on the same scale as the real exam. Pass mark 700 / 1000.
- Questions
- 65~1.4 min each
- Time limit
- 90 minserver-timed
- Pass mark
- 700on a 100–1000 scale
- Papers
- 3retake any of them
What's in a CLF-C02 mock paper
Each paper draws its questions per domain in the same proportions AWS publishes for the real CLF-C02 — so a mock that goes badly in one domain is telling you something a randomly-drawn quiz couldn't.
| Domain | Official weight | Questions drawn | Share of paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Concepts | 24% | 16 | 25% |
| Security and Compliance | 30% | 19 | 29% |
| Cloud Technology and Services | 34% | 22 | 34% |
| Billing, Pricing, and Support | 12% | 8 | 12% |
| Total | 100% | 65 | 100% |
What a CLF-C02 paper is shaped like
Which way this particular paper applies pressure.
The clock
At roughly 1.4 minutes a question, the pacing is comfortable but not generous. You can afford to think on a hard question, and you cannot afford to do it twice. Most candidates finish with time for a second pass if they keep the first pass moving.
The weighting
Cloud Technology and Services is the largest domain at 34%, but with 4 domains in play no single one decides the result. A mock score here is usually a fair reflection of overall coverage rather than a verdict on one topic.
The standard
The pass mark is 700 on the 100–1000 scale. Because scaling adjusts for the difficulty of the particular set you were served, there is no fixed number of questions that guarantees it — which is exactly why a single mock result means less than a consistent one.
Pacing a CLF-C02 paper
Where you need to be on the clock, quarter by quarter.
| Checkpoint | Elapsed | Be at question | Questions left |
|---|---|---|---|
| First quarter | 23 min | 16 | 49 |
| Halfway | 45 min | 33 | 32 |
| Three quarters | 68 min | 49 | 16 |
| Time called | 90 min | 65 | 0 |
What trips people up on a CLF-C02 mock
The most common way to underperform on a Cloud Practitioner mock is to have studied the wrong depth. The exam asks which service or concept fits a short business situation, not how to configure anything — so candidates who arrive from a hands-on background often over-read the scenario, looking for a technical subtlety that was never there. If an option feels too simple, that is usually because it is correct.
The billing, pricing and support material is the smallest domain and the most reliably scoreable: support-plan tiers, the pricing models and the cost-management tools are finite, factual and rarely ambiguous. Candidates routinely leave marks there because it feels less important than the services domain. On a mock, check that domain first — if it is not near-perfect, it is the cheapest score you will ever recover.
Treat a weak result in security and compliance as a shared-responsibility problem rather than a services problem. Most misses in that domain come from not being able to say quickly which side of the line a given task falls on, and that is a five-minute fix in the notes rather than a study block.
Scores on this paper tend to plateau fast. Most candidates climb steeply over the first few mocks and then sit within a narrow band however much more they revise — which is a signal, not a stall. Once two consecutive papers land comfortably clear with no domain trailing badly, more mocks stop teaching you anything and the remaining risk is exam-day nerves rather than knowledge.
The cloud concepts domain feels the vaguest to study and produces the most frustrating misses, because the questions are about value and trade-offs rather than facts. If that domain is your weak one, the fix is to be able to state in one sentence why a business would move to the cloud at all — elasticity, no capital outlay, speed, reach — and match each option to one of those.
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Source
Exam structure, domain weights and scoring on this page come from the official CLF-C02 exam guide.
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) exam guide — Amazon Web Services