Cloud Administration/Introduction

Introduction

Objectives and Skills

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

1.1 Given a scenario, analyze system requirements to ensure successful system deployment.

• Appropriate commands, structure, tools, and automation/orchestration as needed
• Platforms and applications
• Interaction of cloud components and services
  • Network components
  • Application components
  • Storage components
  • Compute components
  • Security components
• Interaction of non-cloud components and services
• Baselines
• Target hosts
• Existing systems
• Cloud architecture
• Cloud elements/target objects

1.3 Given a scenario, analyze system requirements to determine if a given testing plan is appropriate.

• Underlying environment considerations included in the testing plan
  • Shared components
    • Storage
    • Compute
    • Network
  • Production vs. development vs. QA
  • Sizing
  • Performance
  • High availability
  • Connectivity
  • Data integrity
  • Proper function
  • Replication
  • Load balancing
  • Automation/orchestration
• Testing techniques
  • Vulnerability testing
  • Penetration testing
  • Load testing

1.4 Given a scenario, analyze testing results to determine if the testing was successful in relation to given system requirements.

• Consider success factor indicators of the testing environment
  • Sizing
  • Performance
  • Availability
  • Connectivity
  • Data integrity
  • Proper functionality
• Document results
• Baseline comparisons
• SLA comparisons
• Cloud performance fluctuation variables

References

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