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CompTIA  Cloud+ is an infrastructure level base IT certification that is out to need to implement a secure cloud environment that supports the high availability of business systems and data.

Curriculum

Domain 1— CLOUD ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN. (13%)

• Deployment model.
• Service models.
• Advanced cloud services.
• Shared responsibility model
• Capacity planning requirements

Factors that contribute to capacity planning

• Requirements
• Standard templates
• Licensing
• User density
• System load
• Trend analysis
• Performance capacity planning
• Hypervisors
• Oversubscription
• Region and zones
• Applications
• Containers
• Cluster
• High availability of network functions
• Avoid single points of failure.
• Scalability

 Analyze the solution design in support of the business requirements.

• Requirements analysis
• Environment
• Testing techniques

Domain 2—SECURITY (20%)

• Identification and authorization
• Directory services
• Federation
• Certificate management
• Multifactor authentication (MFA)
• Single sign-on (SSO)
• Public key infrastructure (PKI)
• Secret management
• Key management
• Network segmentation
• Protocols
• Network services
• Log and event monitoring
• Network flows
• Hardening and configuration changes
• Policies
• User permissions
• Antivirus/Anti-malware/endpoint detection and response (EDR)
• Host-based IDS (HIDS)/Host-based IPS (HIPS)
• Hardening baselines
• File integrity
• Log and event monitoring
• Configuration management
• Builds
• Operating system (OS) upgrade
• Encryption
• Mandatory access control
• Software firewall

Data security and compliance controls in cloud environments.

• Encryption
• Integrity
• Classification
• Segmentation
• Access control
• Impact of law and regulations
• Records management
• Data loss prevention (DLP)
• Cloud access security broker (CASB)

Measures to meet security requirements.

• Tools
• Vulnerability assessment
• Security patches
• Risk register
• Prioritization of patch application
• Deactivate default accounts.
• Impacts of security tools on system and services
• Effects of cloud service models on security implementation

Importance of incident response procedures.

• Preparation
• Incident response procedures

Domain 3—DEPLOYMENT (23%)

• Subscription services
• Provisioning resources
• Application
• Deploying virtual machines (VMs) and custom images
• Templates
• Identity management
• Container
• Auto-scaling
• Post-deployment validation

Provision storage in cloud environments.

• Types
• Tier
• Protocols
• Redundant array of inexpensive disk (RAID)
• Storage system features
• User quotas
• Hyperconverged
• Software-defined storage (SDS)

Deploying cloud solutions.

• Services
• Virtual private networks (VPNs)
• Virtual routing
• Network appliances
• Virtual private cloud (VPC)
• VLAN/VXLAN/GENEVE
• Single root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV)
• Software-defined network (SDN)
• Virtualization
• Central processing unit/virtual CPU
• Graphic processing unit
• Clock speed/instructions per cycle (IPC)
• Hyperconverged
• Memory

Performing cloud migration.

• Physical to virtual (P2V)
• Virtual to virtual (V2V)
• Cloud-to cloud migrations
• Storage migration
• Database migration

Domain 4—Operations & support (22%)

• Logging
• Monitoring

Maintaining efficient operation of a cloud environment.

• Confirm completion of backups
• Life-cycle management
• Change management.
• Asset management
• Patching
• Impacts of process improvements on systems
• Upgrade method
• Dashboard and reporting

Optimizing cloud environment.

• Right-sizing
• Compute
• Storage
• Network
• Placement
• Device drivers and firm

Automation and orchestration techniques.

• Infrastructure as code
• Continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD)
• Version control
• Configuration management
• Containers
• Automation activities
• Secure scripting
• Orchestration sequencing
• Backup types
• Backup objects
• Backup targets
• Backup and restore policies.
• Restoration methods

Disaster recovery tasks.

• Failovers
• Failback
• Restore backups.
• Replication
• Network configurations
• On-premises and cloud sites
• Requirements
• Documentation
• Geographical datacenter requirements

Domain 5—TROUBLESHOOTING (22%)

• Always consider corporate policies, procedures, and impacts before implementing changes.
• Identify the problem.
• Establish a theory of probable cause (question the obvious)
• Test the theory to determine the cause.
• Establish a plan of action to resolve the problem and implement the solution.
• Verify full system functionality and, if applicable, implement the preventive measure.
• Document the findings, actions, and outcomes through the process.
• Connectivity issues
• Performance degradation
• Configurations
• Applications in containers
• Misconfigured templates
• Missing or incorrect tags
• Insufficient capacity
• Licensing issues
• Vendor-related issues
• Network security group misconfigurations
• Common network configuration issues
• Network troubleshooting tools
• Resource utilization
• Application
• Job validation issue
• Patching failure

Who should learn Cloud+?

• Systems engineer.
• Cloud engineer.
• Cloud specialist.
• Cloud project manager.
• Cloud network administrator.
• Senior System Administrator.

What will I be able to do at the end of the training?

• Ability to deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot the network connections of cloud computing resources.
• Ability to maintain the cloud so it can address the business need fully and accurately.