Cloud Administration/Deployment

Deployment

Objectives and Skills

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

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

References

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