CompTIA Cloud+ Basic

Name: CompTIA Cloud+ Basic
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Created byStone River eLearning

Last updated 10/2018

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What you'll learn

Plan and deploy a successful cloud system
View cloud deployment models and their network interactions
Evaluate computer resources required for successful cloud implementation
Test an environment before cloud deployment
Migrate and integrate cloud services
Use security automation tools and techniques
Update and upgrade and schedule cloud maintenance
Run performance analyses
Allocate compute resources and monitor resource usage
Troubleshooting the deployment and automation issues
Troubleshoot network and security

Course content

3 sections • 46 lectures • 3h 49m total length

Topic A: Intro to Cloud Benefits - Part 10:49
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Intro to Cloud Benefits - Part 212:50
Discover how virtualization underpins cloud benefits such as reduced data center footprint and costs, on-demand storage, pay-as-you-go, self-service provisioning, high availability, disaster recovery, and agility.
Intro to Cloud Benefits - Part 31:06
Explore cloud benefits and why organizations move to cloud. The cloud offers infinite resources you can subscribe to and consume, with pay-as-you-grow costs, enabling agile on-demand provisioning and reduced costs.
Topic B: Cloud Service Models - Part 10:54
Explore cloud service models, including software as a service and infrastructure as a service, and learn how organizations decide what they need from a cloud provider.
Cloud Service Models - Part 216:37
understand the three primary cloud service models—infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and software as a service—and how responsibilities, scalability, and provider managed resources shape cloud deployments.
Cloud Service Models - Part 30:53
Explore cloud service models, including software as a service and infrastructure as a service, and learn how organizations decide which services they need in cloud essentials.
Topic C: Cloud Delivery Models - Part 10:35
Explore cloud delivery models—private, public, and hybrid—and learn how to map them to business requirements and cloud benefits.
Cloud Delivery Models - Part 219:25
Evaluate private, public, hybrid, and community cloud delivery models to align business needs with cloud benefits and plan secure, scalable, pay-as-you-go deployments.
Cloud Delivery Models - Part 30:54
Compare private, public, and hybrid cloud delivery models to understand who owns resources and how services are provided, and learn how to select the right model to maximize cloud benefits.
Cloud Terminology - Part 10:38
Explore key cloud terminology like elasticity of demand, demand-driven service, pay as you go, and pay as you grow to build foundational understanding for cloud certified professionals.
Cloud Terminology - Part 210:57
Understand elasticity and scalability differences to provision resources on demand, master on-demand self-service and demand-driven service, and manage pay as you grow, chargeback, metering, and multi-tenancy.
Cloud Terminology - Part 30:46
Explore terms like pay as you grow, elasticity, on demand, private cloud, and public cloud, and discuss how peak periods drive cloud bursting for applications.
Topic E: Object Storage Concepts - Part 10:40
Explore object storage concepts and learn how object-based storage meets growing organizational storage needs, complements cloud solutions, and provides elastic capacity alongside block storage.
Object Storage Concepts - Part 24:07
Explore object storage concepts and how object IDs, data components, and metadata enable scalable cloud storage. Learn about data blob, policies, and replicas to boost availability.
Object Storage Concepts - Part 30:56
Explore object based storage and how it moves storage processing power to devices, enabling on-demand provisioning in cloud environments, and learn object id, metadata, replicas, and policies.
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Topic A: Disk Types and Configurations - Part 10:42
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Disk Types and Configurations - Part 2A16:51
Explore how storage underpins cloud environments, compare disk types, interfaces, and configurations, and evaluate disk performance factors, density, rpm, hot swapping, and RAID for appropriate workloads.
Disk Types and Configurations - Part 2B15:32
Compare disk types and configurations by examining access speed, access time, latency, startup time across HDDs and SSDs, plus cost, fragmentation, RAID, and tiering storage.
Disk Types and Configurations - Part 30:52
Explore disk types and configurations, examine interface types and their impact on performance and availability, compare SSD advantages, and learn storage tiering to balance cost and cloud storage performance.
Topic B: Understanding RAID - Part 10:41
Explore redundancy to eliminate single points of failure and ensure high availability for cloud storage hosting multiple virtual machines and tenants, via the hardware-level redundant array of independent disks.
Understanding RAID - Part 217:13
Understand how RAID balances performance and redundancy to achieve high availability in cloud storage, including RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and hybrid configurations, with hardware and software implementations.
Understanding RAID - Part 30:51
Explore redundancy and high availability in cloud storage by examining raid 1 mirroring, raid 5 with parity, and raid 6 or raid 10 for multiple disk failures.
Topic C: Examining File Systems - Part 10:42
Explore how file systems manage storage, permissions, and data organization across Windows, Unix/Linux, and virtualization platforms, and compare the capabilities and choices for different scenarios.
Examining File Systems - Part 211:25
Explore how file systems store data, manage metadata, and enforce access across Unix, Linux, Windows, and virtualization, highlighting NTFS, extended file system, fat, VMFS, and ZFS.
Examining File Systems - Part 30:55
Explore file systems across operating systems, learning their roles and capabilities in storing and organizing files, and managing metadata. Compare Unix-like and NTFS systems, including virtualization platforms, for cloud use.
Topic D: Storage Technologies - Part 10:37
Explore various storage technologies used beneath cloud networks, compare direct attached storage, network attached storage, and storage area networks, and evaluate their advantages and disadvantages to select the right technology.
Storage Technologies - Part 27:22
Compare direct attached storage, network attached storage, and storage area networks by cost, performance, capacity, scalability, and data security in cloud environments.
Storage Technologies - Part 30:48
Compare direct attached storage, network attached storage, and storage area networks, noting simplicity and low cost, network-based design with performance tradeoffs, and block-level high performance for cloud infrastructures.
Topic E: Accessing Storage - Part 10:33
Explore multiple storage access methods, including fiber channel and iSCSI, compare their advantages and disadvantages, and understand implementation choices for cloud based environments.
Accessing Storage - Part 210:01
Compare Fiber Channel, Fiber Channel over Ethernet, and iscsi access protocols to storage technologies, evaluating speed, cost, and ease of configuration for SAN designs.
Accessing Storage - Part 30:53
Explore two storage access protocols for cloudbase networks: fiber channel and fiber channel over ethernet, alongside iscsi over tcp/ip; compare advantages, disadvantages, and key components.
Topic F: Provisioning Storage - Part 10:46
Provision storage for cloud-based environments by presenting it to a fabric server via LUNs, LUN masking, network shares, zoning, and multi pathing, to ensure availability, security, and business requirements.
Provisioning Storage - Part 28:40
Provision storage options for clients using LUNs and network shares (SMB/NFS), and ensure high availability with zoning, LUN masking, and multipath in storage area networks.
Provisioning Storage - Part 31:00
Present cloud storage to servers using LUNs and NAS/SAN block storage, plus network shares via NFS and SMB. Cover zoning, LUN masking, and multipath for high availability.
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Topic A: Network Types - Part 10:36
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Network Types - Part 29:11
Explore how intranets, the Internet, and extranets connect systems to share resources like files, printers, and business applications, while gateways, firewalls, DMZs, and VPNs secure external access.
Network Types - Part 31:00
Explore how networks enable resource sharing across files, folders, printers, web servers, and applications. Contrast the three basic types—Internet (global) and extranet—plus the network accessed within the organization.
Topic B: Optimizing the Network - Part 10:35
Optimize the network to keep it operating at peak efficiency by exploring network topologies and key performance factors, providing foundational knowledge for cloud computing infrastructures.
Optimizing the Network - Part 219:39
Enhance cloud network performance by optimizing topology, monitoring usage, and patching firmware, while balancing bandwidth, latency, caching, compression, and load balancing across LAN, MAN, and WAN.
Optimizing the Network - Part 30:52
Optimize networks by selecting appropriate categories and topologies and applying performance factors like bandwidth, latency, compression, and caching, with load balancing for high availability and high performance.
Topic C: Routing and Switching - Part 10:37
Explore routing and switching fundamentals as packets travel from source to destination, comparing routers and switches, and covering routing tables, subnetting, network address translation, and virtual local area networks.
Routing and Switching - Part 215:50
Explore how routers and switches enable inter-device communication across network segments, using ip addressing, subnetting, nat, vlan tagging, and routing protocols to manage paths in cloud environments.
Routing and Switching - Part 30:53
Explore routers and switches, routing tables, IP addresses, and NAT, with subnetting and LAN configuration, to connect devices and support cloud-based infrastructures.
Topic D: Network Ports and Protocols - Part 10:46
Explore network ports and application layer protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, and DHCP, plus mail and file transfer protocols, and understand their roles in modern network infrastructures.
Network Ports and Protocols - Part 29:56
Explore how http/https, ftp/ftps, ssh, dns, dhcp, and smtp operate over tcp/ip, using well-known ports to enable secure data exchange.
Network Ports and Protocols - Part 31:02
Explore how application layer protocols govern network communication, define protocols as rule sets, and identify key ports for HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, DHCP, TCP, and UDP for the cloud+ exam.
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Requirements

Although, there are not formal pre-requisites to undertake this course, but it is assumed that the students have some basic applied knowledge and hands-on experience of computers, networks, and cyber security.

Description

CompTIA Cloud+ Basic is an entry level course to introduce the basic knowledge and skills needed to analyze, select, monitor, and protect cloud resources. The concepts taught in this course include identifying vulnerabilities, investigating network issues, connecting and monitoring networks and cloud environment. This course helps the students to prepare for the CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-002 certification exam.

This CompTIA Cloud+ Basic training course addresses the essential knowledge for installation, deployment, management and maintenance of cloud infrastructure with an enhanced focus on its security. The course is based on the cloud concepts and models, virtualization, and infrastructure in the cloud.

Who this course is for:

The course in intended for the IT professionals working with IT vendors and enterprise customers who are interested in learning about analyzing, monitoring or protecting cloud resources and who are working with the cloud.
The course is vendor-neutral and covers the basic concepts applicable to every vendor’s cloud infrastructure.

CompTIA Cloud+ Basic

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Course content

Chapter 01 - Cloud Concepts and Models15 lectures • 1hr 12min

Chapter 02 - Data Storage and Networking19 lectures • 1hr 36min

Chapter 03 - Network Infrastructure12 lectures • 1hr 1min

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