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Exam Details

• Exam Name: Cloud Computing Certified Associate (CCCA)
• Exam Format: Multiple choice, online with remote supervision (proctoring)
• Exam Delivery: Safe Exam Browser
• Number of Questions: 60 questions: 70% scenarios / 30% conceptual
• Exam Duration: 90 minutes
• Passing Score: 70% (42 out of 60 correct answers)
• Available Languages: Spanish / English
• Attempts: Maximum 2 attempts (minimum 15 days between attempts)
• Validity: 3 years · 15 CPD credits per year

Main Subjects

• Cloud computing fundamentals and service models (15%): NIST SP 800-145; IaaS, PaaS and SaaS; Deployment models; Shared responsibility; Regions and availability zones.
• Cloud infrastructure and services (20%): Compute, serverless and autoscaling; Storage and lifecycle; Virtual networks, CDN and DNS; Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Security, identity and compliance (15%): IAM, MFA and SSO; Encryption and key management; Network security and VPN; GDPR, HIPAA, ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2.
• High availability, continuity and migration (15%): Fault tolerance and elasticity; RPO and RTO; The 6 Rs migration strategy; Hybrid cloud and multicloud.
• DevOps, automation and IaC fundamentals (15%): CI/CD; Terraform, CloudFormation and Ansible; Containers and Kubernetes; Blue/green and canary deployments.
• Administration, monitoring and cost management (20%): Metrics, logs and alarms; Tagging and governance; Budgets and spending alerts; Reserved instances, savings plans and spot.

Who is this certification for?

• Students and junior profiles: Who are starting their career in cloud computing.
• IT professionals and system administrators: Who want to formalize and broaden their cloud skills.
• Developers and networking and security specialists: Who work with cloud services every day.

Prerequisites

No mandatory prerequisites: no prior experience, training or certification is required. Registration is direct with CertJoin or through an authorized partner. Recommended (not mandatory): basic knowledge of networking, operating systems or development. Next levels: Cloud Computing Certified Professional (CCCP) and Cloud Computing Certified Expert (CCCE).