• Online, Instructor-Led

This is an Intense 5-day, Instructor-Led, Authorized CompTIA Cloud+ Certification course that prepares students to pass the Cloud+ Exam from CompTIA. This is achieved through a combination of lecture, review, drill sessions, extensive mentoring, practice questions and answer sessions. We are a CompTIA Authorized training provider using courseware that is constantly updated to make sure we are covering and synchronized with the latest exam objectives. Each attendee will have the opportunity to take the Cloud+ certification exam on the last day of class.

The CompTIA Cloud+ certification is an internationally recognized validation of the knowledge required of IT practitioners working in cloud computing environments. The CompTIA Cloud+ exam will certify the successful candidate has the knowledge and skills required to understand standard cloud methodologies; to implement, maintain, and deliver cloud technologies and to understand aspects of IT security and use industry best practices related to cloud implementations. As more and more businesses shift their IT operations to cloud platforms, skills in cloud computing and virtualization have become a frequently required qualification for IT professionals. Cloud+ is globally recognized and accredited. Our 5 day Cloud+ bootcamp will provide you with a fast proven method for mastering all of the Cloud+ Domains. If you are looking to pass the Cloud+ Exam, you found the right place. This 5-day bootcamp is geared for the government, military and contractors seeking 8140 compliance. Classes are scheduled across the USA and also live online.

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Training Includes:

  • The top CompTIA Cloud+ Training in the industry
  • Instruction by a high-level Certified CompTIA expert
  • Cloud+ Courseware - continually updated
  • Practice and skill development
  • Cloud+ practice questions & quizzes
  • Class hours: 8:30 - 4:30 daily
  • Snacks and beverages provided daily
  • Cloud+ exam voucher included
  • Free exam retake if needed
  • Attendees can test on the last day of class to achieve the Cloud+ certification

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-004 Course, you will:

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

CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-004 Course 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
  • Data
     

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

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):