CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-001: Cloud Management

Overview/Description
Part of administering a cloud implementation is ensuring that correct resources are available and that users can access them in a timely manner. In this course, you'll focus on managing the cloud provider data center, including the allocation and monitoring of physical and virtual resources, the implementation of a disaster recovery and high availability strategy, and the tools provided for remote access of hosts and virtual machines. This course is one in a series of Skillsoft courses in the learning path that covers the objectives for the CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-001 certification exam.

Target Audience
This CompTIA Cloud+ training course is targeted toward IT personnel with at least 24 to 36 months of IT experience in networking, storage, or data center administration. Good computer literacy along with a sound technical acumen should be present. It is also suitable for students looking to acquire job skills and to be trained specifically to pass the associated CompTIA Cloud+ certification exam. It is recommended, but not required, that candidates for the CompTIA Cloud+ exam obtain the CompTIA Network+ and/or CompTIA Storage+ certifications or equivalent knowledge.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-001: Cloud Management

• start the course
• describe the purpose and main objectives of resource monitoring in the data center
• describe the protocols used for monitoring including SNMP, and the alert channels an administrator can use
• describe how baselines are generated, and how they are used in conjunction with thresholds
• describe how remediation can be automated in the data center
• describe how to select appropriate CPU, memory, and network resources for VM hosts based on expected and projected usage scenarios
• describe how storage is allocated and quotas are applied on VM hosts in the data center
• describe how physical resources are pooled in a virtual environment
• describe the implications of virtualization for software licensing
• describe virtual resources in the context of data center management including dynamic allocation
• describe how quotas are applied to guest VMs in a virtual environment
• describe how pooled resources are allocated to guests in a VM environment, including processor affinity
• describe how physical resources, such as optical disks, USB, and serial ports can be redirected to a guest VM
• describe the role of redundancy in providing highly available systems, and the process of failover and failback
• describe how and why to provide geographical redundancy
• describe how and why to mirror sites, and the processes involved
• describe the role of backup and recovery in disaster planning, and the types of backup
• describe how and why to plan data archival
• describe the concepts of synchronous and asynchronous replication
• describe the metrics of device and system failure and recovery, including MTBF, MTTR, RTO and RPO
• describe how to use disaster recovery techniques to meet requirements for mission critical systems
• describe how and where fault tolerance is used in the context of a highly available system
• describe how and where multipathing is used in the context of a highly available system
• describe how and where load balancing is used in the context of a highly available system
• describe the usage scenarios and processes by which different vendors' hypervisors can be configured remotely
• describe the remote desktop protocol that can be used to manage a physical or virtual machine
• describe how and where secure shell and direct console port connections are used for device management
• describe how HTTP can be used to manage remote systems, and how this can traverse firewall devices
• describe how to manage cloud resource and remote access