Cloud Essentials-CompTIA Authorized Courseware (Course & Labs)

(CLO-001-complete)/ISBN:978-1-61691-743-2

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Kick start your prep for the CompTIA Cloud Essentials Certification exam with the Cloud Essentials course and performance-based labs. Performance-based labs simulate real-world, hardware, software & command line interface environments and can be mapped to any text-book, course & training. This course focuses on the real-world scenarios of cloud computing in business and IT. The course also covers topics that include the cloud types, impact and changes on IT service management, business value of cloud computing, steps to a successful adoption of the cloud, and risks and consequences.

Here's what you will get

CompTIA Cloud Essentials certification exam is a widely recognized vendor-neutral credential. The exam focuses on topics that includes cloud computing and business value; technical perspectives/cloud types; steps to successful adoption of cloud computing; characteristics of cloud services from a business perspective; risks and consequences of cloud computing; impact and changes of cloud computing on IT service management.

Lessons

12+ Lessons | 200+ Exercises | 220+ Quizzes | 133+ Flashcards | 133+ Glossary of terms

TestPrep

60+ Pre Assessment Questions | 3+ Full Length Tests | 50+ Post Assessment Questions | 150+ Practice Test Questions

Here's what you will learn

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Lessons 1: What Is Cloud Computing?

  • Defining Cloud Computing
  • Understanding Distributed Application Design
  • Understanding Resource Management Automation
  • Understanding Virtualized Computing Environments
  • Understanding High-Performance Computing Models
  • Understanding Cloud Computing Technologies
  • Review Questions

Lessons 2: Cloud Models

  • Evolving from Virtualization to the Cloud
  • Planning Organizational Roles in the Cloud
  • Identifying Cloud Deployment Models and Scope Modifiers
  • Including Future Cloud Models
  • Review Questions

Lessons 3: Service Models

  • Categorizing Cloud Services
  • Examining Software as a Service
  • Examining Platform as a Service
  • Examining Infrastructure as a Service
  • Identifying Emerging Cloud Database Capabilities
  • Defining Everything as a Service
  • Review Questions

Lessons 4: Current Cloud Technologies

  • Comparing Traditional Technologies and Cloud Alternatives
  • Accessing the Cloud
  • Leveraging Software as a Service
  • Developing within Platform as a Service
  • Implementing Infrastructure as a Service
  • Empowering Mobile Computing
  • Review Questions

Lessons 5: Cloud Business Value

  • Identifying Business Drivers for Cloud Computing
  • Examining the Business Impact
  • Review Questions

Lessons 6: Cloud Infrastructure Planning

  • Understanding Cloud Networks
  • Leveraging Automation and Self-Service
  • Understanding Federated Cloud Services
  • Achieving Interoperability
  • Review Questions

Lessons 7: Strategies for Cloud Adoption

  • Aligning Cloud Deployments with Organizational Goals
  • Identifying the Impact of Cloud Adoption to Business Processes
  • Understanding the Importance of Service-Level Agreements
  • Review Questions

Lessons 8: Applications in the Cloud

  • Understanding the Role of Standard Applications
  • Developing Cloud-Ready Applications
  • Migrating Applications to the Cloud
  • Preparing for Technical Challenges
  • Identifying and Mitigating Risks
  • Review Questions

Lessons 9: Cloud Service Rollout

  • Identifying Vendor Roles and Responsibilities
  • Identifying Organizational Skill Requirements
  • Transitioning to Live Environments
  • Preparing for Incident Management
  • Review Questions

Lessons 10: Cloud Service-Level Management

  • Understanding ITIL Service Management
  • Applying ITIL to Cloud Computing
  • Developing and Utilizing Performance Metrics
  • Implementing Continual Process Improvement
  • Review Questions

Lessons 11: Security in the Cloud

  • Understanding Security and Risk
  • Reviewing Security Standards
  • Exploring Common Security Risks and Mitigations
  • Implementing an ISMS
  • Responding to Incidents
  • Recognizing Security Benefits
  • Review Questions

Lessons 12: Privacy and Compliance

  • Identifying Legal Risks
  • Identifying Privacy Risks
  • Managing Identity in the Cloud
  • Review Questions

Hands-on LAB Activities (Performance Labs)

What Is Cloud Computing?

  • Understanding cloud bursting
  • Understanding physical layer abstraction
  • Identifying basic characteristics of cloud
  • Identifying cloud based services
  • Installing dropbox on your computer
  • Understanding distributed application design
  • Understanding virtualization
  • Identifying SAN and NAS
  • Identifying cloud and SAN storage

Cloud Models

  • Identifying cloud components
  • Identifying Server and distributed virtualization
  • Identifying organizations for full private cloud deployment
  • Understanding cloud deployment models
  • Understanding SLA
  • Identifying cloud deployment models
  • Identifying cloud model from the structure

Service Models

  • Identifying use cases for PaaS
  • Identifying cloud service models

Current Cloud Technologies

  • Identifying cloud model
  • Identifying application technologies
  • Identifying traditional and cloud data center
  • Installing the Web Server IIS server role

Cloud Business Value

  • Identifying diagonal scaling
  • Identifying IT administrative duties
  • Identifying cloud architecture benefits
  • Identifying IT processes and procedures

Cloud Infrastructure Planning

  • Identifying OSI model layers
  • Identifying OSI layer functions
  • Creating a virtual machine
  • Identifying automated cloud services capabilities
  • Identifying storage gateways functions
  • Identifying AWS Storage Gateway

Strategies for Cloud Adoption

  • Identifying cloud service aligned with cloud model

Applications in the Cloud

  • Understanding logical division of layers
  • Identifying risk management process

Cloud Service Rollout

  • Identifying cloud service contract
  • Identifying ITIL framework phases
  • Identifying incident management process

Cloud Service-Level Management

  • Identifying service strategy process
  • Identifying service strategies
  • Identifying roles of cloud players

Security in the Cloud

  • Identifying security controls
  • Identifying layered security framework
  • Identifying benefits of hypervisor
  • Understanding secure sockets layer

Privacy and Compliance

  • Identifying software licensing models
  • Identifying Safe Harbor principles

Exam FAQs

There are no official prerequisites for the CL0-001 exam, however, CompTIA recommend candidates to have at least six months working experience in an environment that markets or relies on IT-related services.

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The exam contains 50 questions.

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CompTIA Cloud Essentials certification are valid for three years from the date the candidate is certified, after which the certification holder will need to renew their certification via CompTIA's Continuing Education Program.