CompTIA Cloud+® Certification Training

Course 2048

  • Duration: 5 days
  • Exam Voucher: Yes
  • Language: English
  • Level: Foundation

The CompTIA Cloud+ (CVO-004) course is a comprehensive training program designed to equip IT professionals with the essential skills and knowledge needed to effectively deploy, manage, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure services. This course provides an in-depth understanding of cloud technologies and emphasizes the integration of cloud services into broader IT systems operations.

U.S. DoDM 8140.03 APPROVED BY DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

CompTIA Cloud+ Training Delivery Methods

  • In-Person

  • Online

  • Upskill your whole team by bringing Private Team Training to your facility.

CompTIA Cloud+ Training Information

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Understand cloud architecture and design concepts.
  • Implement and maintain a secure cloud environment.
  • Successfully provision and configure cloud resources.
  • Demonstrate the ability to manage operations throughout the cloud environment life cycle using observability, scaling, and automation.
  • Understand fundamental DevOps concepts related to deployment and integration.
  • Troubleshoot common issues related to cloud management.

Training Prerequisites

To succeed in this course and successfully pass the exam, you should have 2-3  years of experience with IT (Information Technology) networking, network storage, virtualization and data center administration. A basic knowledge of standard cloud service models and common cloud deployment models is also helpful.

Certification Information

This course is designed for students preparing to take the CompTIA Cloud+ certification exam CV0-004.

CompTIA Cloud+ Training Outline

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
    • Testing
  • Data
    • Decommissioning

 

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

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CompTIA Cloud+ Training FAQs

CompTIA Cloud+ Certification Training aims to prepare students to pass the CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-004 exam and earn the corresponding certification.

In addition, the course teaches students how to implement, maintain, and deliver cloud technologies to create cloud solutions, manage workload migrations, and ensure the security of cloud implementations using cybersecurity best practices.

CompTIA Cloud+ Training is available in both in-person and online delivery methods.

To succeed in this course and pass the exam, you should have 24-36 months of experience with IT networking, network storage, and data center administration.

You should also be familiar with significant hypervisor technologies for server virtualization, basic knowledge of standard cloud service models and common cloud deployment models.

The course covers a wide range of topics, including preparing to deploy cloud solutions, deploying a pilot project, testing pilot project deployments, designing a secure and compliant cloud infrastructure, planning identity and access management for cloud deployments, analyzing workload characteristics to ensure a successful migration, troubleshooting deployment, capacity, automation, connectivity, security, and orchestration issues, and more.

This course is designed for students preparing to take the CompTIA Cloud+ certification exam CV0-004 or who plan to use Cloud+ as the foundation for more advanced cloud certifications or career roles.

The course is also designed for IT professionals who wish to develop cloud computing skills to move IT workloads to the cloud and integrate products and services from different providers and industries.

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