comptia cloud+ (CV0-004) certification training

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5 Day Authorized CompTIA Cloud+ Bootcamp: Train-Test-Pass!

Cloud+ is U.S. DoDM 8140.03 Approved by the Department of Defense (DoD)

Upon completion of the CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-004 Course, you will demonstrate competence and learn to master:

Module 1.0 Cloud Architecture

Use the appropriate cloud service model.

• Cloud service models
• Shared responsibility model

Explain concepts related to service availability.

• Resource availability
• Disaster recovery (DR)
• Multicloud tenancy

Explain cloud networking concepts.

• Public and private connections to the cloud
• Network functions, components, and services

Compare and contrast storage resources and technologies.

• Tiered storage
• Disk types
• Storage types
• Performance implications
• Cost implications

Explain the purpose of cloud-native design concepts.

• Cloud-provided managed services
• Microservices
• Loosely coupled architecture
• Fan-out
• Service discovery

Compare and contrast containerization concepts.

• Stand-alone
• Workload orchestration
• Networking

Compare and contrast virtualization concepts.

• Stand-alone
• Clustering
• Cloning
• Host affinity
• Hardware pass-through
• Network types

Summarize cost considerations related to cloud usage.

• Billing models
• Resource metering
• Tagging
• Rightsizing

Explain the importance of database concepts.

• Deployment options

Compare and contrast methods for optimizing workloads using cloud resources.

• Compute resources
• Orchestration
• Workflow
• Network
• Storage
• Managed services

Identify evolving technologies in the cloud.

• Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)
• Internet of Things (IoT)

Module 2.0 Deployment

Compare and contrast cloud deployment models.

• Public and Private
• Hybrid
• Community

Implement appropriate deployment strategies.

• Blue-green
• Canary
• Rolling
• In-place

Summarize aspects of cloud migration.

• Migration types
• Resource allocation
• Considerations
• Application migration strategies

Use code to deploy and configure cloud resources

• Infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Configuration as code (CaC)
• Scripting logic

Provision the appropriate cloud resources.

• Repeatability
• Drift detection
• Versioning
• Testing
• Documentation
• Formats

 Module 3.0 Operations

Configure appropriate resources to achieve observability.

• Logging
• Tracing and Monitoring
• Alerting

Configure appropriate scaling approaches.

• Approaches
• Types

Use appropriate backup and recovery methods.

• Backup types
• Backup locations
• Schedule
• Retention and Replication
• Encryption
• Testing
• Recovery types and Options
• Manage the life cycle of cloud resources.
• Patches
• Updates
• Data
  

4.0 Security

Explain vulnerability management concepts.

• Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)

Compare and contrast aspects of compliance and regulation.

• Data sovereignty
• Data ownership
• Data locality
• Data classification
• Data retention

Implement identity and access management.

Secure access to the cloud management environment

• Authentication models
• Authorization models
• Accounting

Apply security best practices.

• Zero Trust
• Benchmark
  • Hardening
  • Patching
  • Encryption
• Secrets management
• API security
• Principle of least privilege
• Container security

Apply security controls in the cloud.

• Endpoint protection
• Data loss prevention (DLP)
• Intrusion prevention system/intrusion detection system (IPS/IDS)
• Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection
• Identity and access management (IAM) policies
• Firewall

Monitor suspicious activities to identify common attacks.

• Event monitoring
• Deviation from the baseline
• Unnecessary open ports
• Attack types

Module 5.0  DevOps Fundamentals

Explain source control concepts.

• Version management
• Code review
• Pull request
• Code push
• Code commit
• Code merge
• Branch management

Explain concepts related to continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

• Automation
• Code integration
• Code deployment - Build
• Testing
• Security
• Workflow
• Artifacts
• Repositories

Explain concepts related to integration of systems.

• Event-driven architectures
• Web services

Explain the importance of tools used in DevOps environments.

• Ansible
• Docker

Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) stack

• GitHub actions
• Grafana,  Jenkins, Kubernetes and Terraform

6.0 Troubleshooting

Given a scenario, troubleshoot deployment issues.

Incompatibility

Misconfigurations

• Outdated component definitions
• Deprecation of functionality

Outages

Troubleshoot network issues

• Network service unavailability
• Latency
• Bandwidth/throughput issues
• Network device misconfiguration
• Protocol incompatibility
• Protocol deprecations
• IP addressing issues

Troubleshoot security issues

• Cipher suite deprecations
• Authorization issues
• Software vulnerability issues
• Unauthorized software