Cloud Administration/Management

Management

Objectives and Skills

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

4.1 Given a scenario, analyze defined metrics to determine the presence of an abnormality and/or forecast future needed cloud resources.

  • Monitoring
    • Target object baselines
    • Target object anomalies
    • Common alert methods/messaging
    • Alerting based on deviation from baseline
    • Event collection
  • Event correlation
  • Forecasting resource capacity
    • Upsize/increase
    • Downsize/decrease
  • Policies in support of event collection
  • Policies to communicate alerts appropriately

4.2 Given a scenario, determine the appropriate allocation of cloud resources.

  • Resources needed based on cloud deployment models
    • Hybrid
    • Community
    • Public
    • Private
  • Capacity/elasticity of cloud environment
  • Support agreements
    • Cloud service model

maintenance responsibility

  • Configuration management tool
  • Resource balancing techniques
    • Advisory board
    • Approval process
    • Document actions taken
      • CMDB
      • Spreadsheet

4.3 Given a scenario, determine when to provision/deprovision cloud resources.

  • Usage patterns
  • Cloud bursting
    • Auto-scaling technology
  • Cloud provider migrations
  • Extending cloud scope
  • Application life cycle
    • Application deployment
    • Application upgrade
    • Application retirement
    • Application replacement
    • Application migration
    • Application feature use
      • Increase/decrease
  • Business need change
    • Mergers/acquisitions/divestitures
    • Cloud service requirement changes
    • Impact of regulation and law changes

4.4 Given a scenario, implement account provisioning techniques in a cloud environment to meet security and policy requirements.

  • Identification
  • Authentication methods
    • Federation
      • Single sign-on
  • Authorization methods
    • ACLs
    • Permissions
  • Account life cycle
  • Account management policy
    • Lockout
    • Password complexity rules
  • Automation and orchestration activities
    • User account creation
    • Permission settings
    • Resource access
    • User account removal
    • User account disablement

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Lesson Summary

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