CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-004) Complete Course & Practice Exams

Explore design issues in cloud architecture and clarify what cloud means. Examine deployment models—private, public, hybrid, and community—and how cloud services are packaged and the risks.

Explore the NIST-defined cloud and its five characteristics, with rapid elasticity at the core. Examine on-demand self-service, resource pooling, measured service, and broad network access.

Explore the four deployment models: public, private, hybrid, and community cloud. See how organizations balance budgets and collaboration, with cloud.gov as a community cloud example.

Understand the three cloud service models—software, platform, and infrastructure as a service—through examples like Gmail and Hotmail, and the rise of XaaS.

Discover function as a service, a serverless model that runs code on demand in the cloud. Triggers include http requests, database updates, or file uploads, delivering cost efficiency and elasticity.

Discover cloud native design with microservices, containers, and RESTful APIs; understand fanout, asynchronous processing, and service discovery for scalable, language-agnostic architectures.

Explore cloud containerization concepts, including standalone containers and orchestration with Kubernetes. Compare persistent versus ephemeral storage and summarize image registries like ECR and artifact registry for secure deployments.

Explore advanced cloud features and services, including cloud within a cloud (virtual private cloud), multi-cloud automation, and AWS examples of machine learning, serverless computing, and the internet of things.

Explore the shared responsibility model in cloud security, outlining the provider's duties for hardware and data-center security, and your duties for VM security, encryption at rest, and passwords.

Explore advanced design topics for cloud capacity planning, including elastic scaling and cost-efficient sizing, and examine how cloud testing enables rapid architecture validation.

Compare major public cloud vendors and learn how mastering one eases others, then explore launching EC2 and Azure virtual machines via consoles and CLI, with free tier cost visibility.

Explore factors that shape cloud capacity planning, including aligning business goals with a business needs analysis, licensing considerations, and how user density and baseline trend analysis drive performance.

Explore high availability and scaling in cloud environments, applying redundancy, monitoring, and failover across regions and availability zones, and leverage clustering and containers such as Kubernetes for resilient services.

Explore detailed scaling approaches for cloud resources: triggered dynamic, scheduled predictive, and manual scaling, with AWS tools like CloudWatch and launch templates to balance performance, availability, and cost.

Explore resource lifecycle management in cloud operations, from provisioning and configuration to decommissioning. Learn monitoring, autoscaling, cost optimization, and the choice between ephemeral and persistent data with IaC automation.

Explore cloud testing techniques that enable on-demand development, staging, and production environments, blue-green and canary deployments, disaster recovery testing, penetration testing, and functional testing.

Improve your organization's security posture by properly implementing cloud technologies. Identify individuals who will interact with cloud resources and authorize their intended actions, and explore approaches to identity and authorization.

Explore how directory services define users, groups, and permissions in a cloud identity model with Azure AD and Azure AD Connect, including options to run traditional AD in Azure.

Experience how single sign on enables seamless access from Windows 10 to Office 365, OneDrive, and AWS S3 via shared credentials, and highlights AWS single sign-on and cloud identity services.

Explore the public key infrastructure (PKI) and how public and private keys enable secure cloud communications through trusted certificate authorities and digital certificates.

Explore enhanced identity and access management across AWS and Azure, including CLI, SDKs, REST APIs, API gateway, SAML 2.0, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and federated token-based access.

Explore key identity topics in cloud security, from identity access management to roles and triple a, saml and ldap, multifactor authentication, biometrics, and federation enabling single sign-on.

an experienced instructor introduces key networking concepts within the CompTIA Cloud+ context, while emphasizing staying within scope and avoiding overemphasis on a single topic.

Explore the evolution from hubs to micro segmentation and learn key security protocols for cloud networks, including TLS/SSL, VPN/IPsec, SSH, and RDP for secure branch office to cloud connectivity.

Explore essential cloud networking topics, from DHCP, DNS, and IP address management (IPAM) to NTP and CloudFront, plus MPLS and VPNs, and the rise of software defined networking.

Walk through manually building a virtual private cloud (VPC) in AWS, configuring an IPv4 CIDR, a subnet, an internet gateway, and a route table to route non-local traffic.

Test your virtual network in AWS by launching and SSH-connecting to an EC2 Linux instance in the VPC you created, validating connectivity and practicing resource cleanup for cloud certification readiness.

Master methodical cloud cleanup by terminating EC2 instances, deleting EBS volumes, and removing residual components like security groups, network interfaces, key pairs, and VPC resources to reduce costs.

Explore unique and exciting cloud offerings and other common cloud services in tech. This module introduces topics that may not fit perfectly in the other modules.

Explore how cloud services rely on subscriptions and manage costs with pricing calculators, using azure subscriptions, microsoft sentinel, and ec2 cost estimators to plan linux fleets.

Implement carefully monitored provisioning of resources and applications in the cloud using resource groups and usage caps. Leverage AWS organizations to manage multiple accounts under one umbrella and monitor consumption.

Learn to modularize cloud infrastructure by categorizing components into network, storage, compute, application, and security, and examine how these components interact using roles and access policies.

Explore how cloud components interact with non-cloud resources, from bandwidth and authentication to data migrations, APIs, and on-prem systems. Examine security, monitoring, and user interface considerations across mixed environments.

Explore cloud compute from virtual machines to container technology, and learn container orchestration with Kubernetes, highlighting the evolution of VM technology in the cloud.

Explore deploying virtual machines in cloud environments using AWS EC2, configuring instance details, storage, networking, security, and key pairs, then embrace launch templates for scalable, templatized VM deployments.

Discover non-vm cloud compute options, including batch services, serverless AWS Lambda, and container management with Amazon Elastic Container Service and EKS, revealing how virtual machines are becoming legacy.

Discover how the cloud provides flexible, scalable data storage to tackle digitization, growing data volumes, and long-term retention challenges.

Explore cloud storage types—object-based, file-based, and block storage—through AWS services like S3, EFS, FSx, and EBS, with notes on buckets, scalability, and cross-cloud options.

Explore advanced cloud storage topics, including S3 buckets and blob services, unlimited objects, automated data security actions, masking, encryption, and data lakes for unstructured data analysis.

Explore cloud-based networking services and technologies, and examine the advantages the cloud can bring to networking.

Explore how vpn s secure on-prem and cloud traffic, including site-to-site and remote access vpn s, powered by ipsec, and see virtual routing and vp cs in action.

Explore virtualized network appliances in the cloud using the aws marketplace, learn BYOL and evaluation licenses, and deploy Cisco devices within a virtual private cloud.

Explore how virtualization has driven cloud development, with a deep dive into current and exciting virtualization technologies that power modern cloud solutions.

Explore virtualization of cloud compute with virtual CPUs, virtual memory, and virtual GPUs. See how Google Cloud Platform enables compute engines and demonstrates pricing across varying machine types.

Discover hyper-converged private cloud architectures that bundle storage, networking, and software. Compare AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, and understand GPU virtualization in the cloud.