Overview:

CompTIA Cloud Essentials Certification provides IT professionals with the necessary skills to operate effectively in a cloud environment. Understanding cloud based technologies is a highly desired skill, as businesses and enterprises move to this innovative, cost saving storage solution.

Duration:  

48 hours

Objectives:

With CompTIA Cloud Essentials Certification training at Robusta the student will learn:

• Key concepts and terminology within cloud based technologies
• Processes involved in the evolving data center in the private cloud
• How to manage systems that have already adopted some type of cloud infrastructure
• Business and operational aspects of running a cloud
• A basic knowledge of Iaas, SaaS, PaaS, and DRaas
• Impacts of IT Service Management

Prerequisites

None, although at least six months working in an environment that markets or relies on IT-related services is recommended.

Course outlines:

1.      Characteristics of Cloud Services from a Business Perspective

• Understand common terms and definitions of cloud computing and provide examples.
• Describe the relationship between cloud computing and virtualization.
• Name early examples of cloud computing.
• Understand several common definitions of cloud computing and their commonalities/differences.
• Recognize what types organizations might benefit from cloud computing.
• Recognize what types organizations might not benefit from cloud computing.
• Distinguish between the different types of clouds, including XaaS, IaaS and PaaS, and give examples of them.

2.      Cloud Computing and Business Value

• Recognize the similarities and differences between cloud computing and outsourcing.
• Understand the following characteristics of clouds and cloud services from a business perspective
• Demonstrate how the characteristics of cloud computing enhance business value.

3.      Technical Perspectives/Cloud Types

• Understand the difference between private and public types of clouds from a technical perspective and provide examples.
• Understand at a high level the following important techniques and methods for cloud computing deployment
• Explain technical challenges and risks for cloud computing and methods to mitigate them.
• Describe the impact of cloud computing on application architecture and the application development process.

4.      Steps to Successful Adoption of Cloud Computing

• Explain typical steps that lead to a successful adoption of cloud computing services
• Understand the roles and capabilities of cloud computing vendors and dependencies on the vendors.
• Describe multiple approaches for migrating applications.
• Understand the following organizational capabilities that are relevant for realizing cloud benefits

5.      Impact and Changes of Cloud Computing on IT Service Management

• Understand the impact and changes of cloud computing on IT service management in a typical organization
• Use a structured approach based on ITIL to explore them potential impact of cloud computing in an organization.

6.      Risks and Consequences of Cloud Computing

• Explain and identify the issues associated with integrating cloud computing into an organization’s existing compliance risk and regulatory framework
• Explain the implications for direct cost and cost allocations.
• Understand how to maintain strategic flexibility