I. Overview:

CompTIA Cloud+ validates your skills in cloud infrastructure, making it the industry standard for professionals working in multi-cloud environments. With this certification, you'll cover critical areas such as cloud architecture, deployment, operations, security, DevOps fundamentals, and troubleshooting. CompTIA Cloud+ equips you with the hands-on skills you need to excel in cloud operations and advance your career in the growing field of cloud computing.

II. Duration: 48 hours (6 days)

III. Objectives:

• Analyze cloud models and design solutions to meet business requirements for effective cloud architecture.
• Execute workload migrations, implement infrastructure as code (IaC), and provision cloud resources to support deployment.
• Manage and optimize cloud environments by scaling, performing backups, and ensuring recovery operations.
• Implement security measures, address vulnerabilities, and ensure compliance with standards like PCI DSS and ISO 27001.
• Apply DevOps fundamentals, including source control, CI/CD pipelines, automation, system integration, and DevOps tools.
• Diagnose and resolve deployment, network, and security issues to troubleshoot cloud environments effectively.

IV. Intended Audience:

• Network operations specialist
• Systems administrator
• Enterprise architect
• Security architect

V. Prerequisites:

Recommended experience: 2–3 years of hands-on experience as a systems administrator or cloud engineer

VI. Course outlines:

1. Cloud Architecture

• Given a scenario, use the appropriate cloud service model.
• Explain concepts related to service availability.
• Explain cloud networking concepts.
• Compare and contrast storage resources and technologies.
• Explain the purpose of cloud-native design concepts.
• Compare and contrast containerization concepts.
• Compare and contrast virtualization concepts.
• Summarize cost considerations related to cloud usage.
• Explain the importance of database concepts.
• Compare and contrast methods for optimizing workloads using cloud resources.
• Identify evolving technologies in the cloud.

2. Deployment

• Compare and contrast cloud deployment models.
• Given a scenario, implement appropriate deployment strategies.
• Summarize aspects of cloud migration.
• Given a scenario, use code to deploy and configure cloud resources.
• Given a set of requirements, provision the appropriate cloud resources.

3. Operations

• Given a scenario, configure appropriate resources to achieve observability.
• Given a scenario, configure appropriate scaling approaches.
• Given a scenario, use appropriate backup and recovery methods.
• Given a scenario, manage the life cycle of cloud resources.

4. Security

• Explain vulnerability management concepts.
• Compare and contrast aspects of compliance and regulation
• Given a scenario, implement identity and access management.
• Given a scenario, apply security best practices.
• Given a scenario, apply security controls in the cloud.
• Given a scenario, monitor suspicious activities to identify common attacks.

5. DevOps Fundamentals

• Explain source control concepts.
• Explain concepts related to continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Explain concepts related to integration of systems.
• Explain the importance of tools used in DevOps environments.

6. Troubleshooting

• Given a scenario, troubleshoot deployment issues.
• Given a scenario, troubleshoot network issues.
• Given a scenario, troubleshoot security issues.