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CLF-C02 deep review — September 28, 2026

The entire guide and 135 knowledge/skill bullets across 19 tasks, root blueprint and in-scope list were reviewed. Broad objectives match the accepted snapshot. German and Italian delivery still retire after December 31; no additional exam retirement was found. This is not retirement of the overall certification.

Learner changes

Add 30 answer explanations and four original worked cases: scheduled compute, unit cost, surviving AZ capacity and budget alerts. Fill task 3.8 gaps for developer tools, remote applications/desktops/browser, frontend hosting and IoT. Recognize WorkSpaces Applications terminology alongside the blueprint's AppStream label. Add the relocate strategy and explicit cloud/hybrid/on-premises distinctions.

Current detailed objectives name Business Support+, Enterprise Support and Unified Operations. Add a support comparison and January 1, 2027 legacy-plan retirement with the GovCloud exception. Distinguish initial response from resolution. Qualify Discovery Service and Migration Hub new-customer access.

Explain Free Tier plan/credit boundaries, and distinguish ordinary AWS Budgets alerts from optional paid-project spend limits in the limited new-signup rollout. The September 16 introduction is accepted as learner context after checking current signup documentation; its example application and UI were not executed. Actual eligibility, supported services and account transitions remain account-specific.

Resources and verification

Public Pluralsight metadata confirms 18 hours/five courses/six labs; the current Cloud Quest landing page confirms a free Cloud Practitioner role. Skill Builder's shell did not verify question counts. O'Reilly/Udemy were blocked; YouTube exposed limited metadata, not a verified runtime or viewed course. Qualify all such claims and use explicit estimates.

Ten local arithmetic assertions passed. Eight labs remain proposed; no AWS usage, signup/billing control or paid lesson/video was executed. Independent human review remains pending. The operational receipt records fetches, hashed objectives, section mapping, source limitations and repository/site gates. Accepted snapshots were preserved.