Cloud Administration/Deployment

Deployment

Objectives and Skills

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Objectives and skills for the deployment portion of CompTIA Cloud+ certification include:[1]

1.2 Given a scenario, execute a provided deployment plan.

  • Apply the Change Management Process
    • Approvals
    • Scheduling
  • Refer to documentation and follow standard operating procedures
  • Execute workflow
  • Configure automation and orchestration, where appropriate, for the system being deployed
  • Use commands and tools as needed
  • Document results

1.5 Given a scenario, analyze sizing, subnetting, and basic routing for a provided deployment of the virtual network.

  • Cloud deployment models
    • Public
    • Private
    • Hybrid
    • Community
  • Network components
  • Applicable port and protocol considerations when extending to the cloud
  • Determine configuration for the applicable platform as it applies to the network
    • VPN
    • IDS/IPS
    • DMZ
    • VXLAN
    • Address space required
    • Network segmentation and micro-segmentation
  • Determine if cloud resources are consistent with the SLA and/or change management requirements

1.6 Given a scenario, analyze CPU and memory sizing for a provided deployment.

  • Available vs. proposed resources
    • CPU
    • RAM
  • Memory technologies
    • Bursting and ballooning
    • Overcommitment ratio
  • CPU technologies
    • Hyperthreading
    • VT-x
    • Overcommitment ratio
  • Effect to HA/DR
  • Performance considerations
  • Cost considerations
  • Energy savings
  • Dedicated compute environment vs. shared compute environment

1.7 Given a scenario, analyze the appropriate storage type and protection capability for a provided deployment.

  • Requested IOPS and read/write throughput
  • Protection capabilities
    • High availability
      • Failover zones
    • Storage replication
      • Regional
      • Multiregional
      • Synchronous and asynchronous
    • Storage mirroring
    • Cloning
    • Redundancy level/factor
  • Storage types
    • NAS
    • DAS
    • SAN
    • Object storage
  • Access protocols
  • Management differences
  • Provisioning model
    • Thick provisioned
    • Thin provisioned
    • Encryption requirements
    • Tokenization
  • Storage technologies
    • Deduplication technologies
    • Compression technologies
  • Storage tiers
  • Overcommitting storage
  • Security configurations for applicable platforms
    • ACLs
    • Obfuscation
    • Zoning
    • User/host authentication and authorization

1.8 Given a scenario, analyze characteristics of the workload (storage, network, compute) to ensure a successful migration.

  • Migration types
    • P2V
    • V2V
    • V2P
    • P2P
    • Storage migrations
    • Online vs. offline migrations
  • Source and destination format of the workload
    • Virtualization format
    • Application and data portability
  • Network connections and data transfer methodologies
  • Standard operating procedures for the workload migration
  • Environmental constraints
    • Bandwidth
    • Working hour restrictions
    • Downtime impact
    • Peak timeframes
    • Legal restrictions
    • Follow-the-sun constraints/time zones

1.9 Given a scenario, apply elements required to extend the infrastructure into a given cloud solution.

  • Identity management elements
    • Identification
    • Authentication
    • Authorization
      • Approvals
      • Access policy
    • Federation
      • Single sign-on
  • Appropriate protocols given requirements
  • Element considerations to deploy infrastructure services such as:
    • DNS
    • DHCP
    • Certificate services
    • Local agents
    • Antivirus
    • Load balancer
    • Multifactor authentication
    • Firewall
    • IPS/IDS

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