CompTIA Cloud+

COURSES INCLUDED

COMPTIA CLOUD+: CLOUD ARCHITECTURE & MODELS
The cloud has various deployment and service models that can help your organization design and create your very own cloud strategy based on needs. First, you’ll learn about the available cloud deployment models such as public, private, hybrid, community, and virtual public clouds, as well as multi-cloud and multitenancy environments. Next, you’ll examine cloud service models such as Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Finally, you’ll learn about advanced topics such as the Internet of Things, serverless computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the shared responsibility model. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
12 videos | 1h 10m Assessment

COMPTIA CLOUD+: CLOUD CAPACITY PLANNING
Capacity planning is an important factor to consider when creating a Cloud Strategy. This course will describe the important factors to consider when performing capacity planning. First, you will learn about the technical and business factors to consider when performing capacity planning. Next, you will learn about using standard templates, licensing considerations, user density and system load. You then learn how to use captured metrics to perform trend analysis and how to do performance capacity planning. Finally, you’ll learn how to create a cloud-based database and how cloud features can be scaled to meet capacity demands. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
12 videos | 1h 9m Assessment

COMPTIA CLOUD+ : CLOUD HIGH AVAILABILITY & SCALING
High availability of cloud systems and resources is extremely important to ensure that a system is there when you need it. Cloud environments have many options and features to ensure that the goal of high availability is achieved. First, you will learn the concepts of affinity and anti-affinity and how it related to hypervisors. Next, you will learn about the benefits of oversubscription of compute, network and storage resources, using regions and zones, cloud applications, and using containers in the cloud environment. Next, you will learn how to configure network resources such as switches, routers, load balancers, and firewalls for high availability. Finally, you will learn about using cloud clusters, identifying single points of failure, and the benefits of using auto-scaling, horizontal scaling, vertical scaling and cloud bursting. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
12 videos | 1h 14m Assessment

COMPTIA CLOUD+: CLOUD SOLUTION DESIGN
Developing new software systems can be costly and time consuming. Cloud-based solutions can help get your system online quickly and cost-effectively and help to meet all your business requirements. In this course, you’ll learn how to analyze the cloud solution design in support of business requirements. First, you’ll explore how to analyze the solution design while considering requirements for software, hardware, system integration, security, network, disaster recovery, budgeting, service level agreements, and compliance. Next, you’ll learn about the benefits of using multiple environments for development, quality assurance, staging, and production. You’ll also examine the advantages of performing blue-green deployments. Finally, you’ll learn about software development testing techniques such as performance, regression, functional, usability, vulnerability, and penetration testing. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
12 videos | 1h 13m Assessment

COMPTIA CLOUD+: CLOUD IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT
Identity and access management is crucial to securing resources and ensuring the resources are used by the correct people. In this course, you’ll learn about some of the security resources that are available for performing and enforcing identity and access management. First, you’ll examine identity and access management, including user identification, authorization, and privileged access management. You’ll learn how to use the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol to manage access to resources. Next, you’ll explore how identity federation can be used to manage user identities and how certificate management can be performed using certificate authorities, registration authorities, certificate databases, certificate stores, and key archival servers. You’ll then move on to learn about multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, Public Key Infrastructure, as well as secret and key management. Finally, you’ll learn about the components that can be used to perform incident response preparation and incident response procedures such as evidence acquisition, chain of custody, and root cause analysis. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
12 videos | 1h 14m Assessment

COMPTIA CLOUD+: CLOUD NETWORK SECURITY
Having a secure cloud environment is crucial for ensuring system and data integrity and security. Cloud environments have numerous methods for meeting these security needs. In this course, you’ll learn how to secure a network in a cloud environment using network segmentation, network protocols, and network services. Next, you’ll learn how to monitor the security of a network environment using log and event monitoring and how to harden the network environment. Then, you’ll move on to examine the available network security tools that can be used to perform network penetration tests, such as vulnerability scanners and port scanners. You’ll also explore how to use these security tools to perform vulnerability assessments. Finally, you’ll learn about the purpose of a risk register and how to prioritize the deployment and installation of security patches. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
13 videos | 1h 22m Assessment

COMPTIA CLOUD+: CLOUD SECURITY CONTROLS
Ensuring the security of your operating systems and applications is a key component of keeping your cloud environment secure. There are several key steps that can be taken to ensure your cloud system is secure. In this course, you will learn about cloud security policies and managing cloud user permissions. Next, you will learn about anti-virus and anti-malware tools, firewalls, intrusion detection and intrusion prevention tools that can be used to detect and prevent cybersecurity attacks. Next, you will learn about hardening your cloud environment and using encryption to increase data security. Finally, you will learn about configuration management and how to monitor the system and event logs. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
12 videos | 1h 9m Assessment

COMPTIA CLOUD+: DATA SECURITY & COMPLIANCE CONTROLS
There may be several ramifications for failing to secure your organization’s data in the cloud environment. This could also mean failing to comply with regulatory compliances. In this course, you will learn how mandatory access controls are used to secure cloud services. First, you will learn encryption, hashing algorithms, digital signatures, the access security broker and file integrity monitoring can be used to ensure data security and regulatory compliance. Next, you will learn how data classification, network and access control can be used to secure data. Next, you will learn about data security laws and regulations and the legal requirements for securely storing data. Finally, you will learn about data loss prevention and the components of records management systems including versioning, retention, destruction and write once/read many. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
12 videos | 1h 17m Assessment

COMPTIA CLOUD+: CLOUD COMPONENT INTEGRATION
Cloud environments provide many key components that can be incorporated into your cloud solution. In this course, you’ll learn about the available cloud components. First, you’ll learn about subscription services such as file, communication, e-mail, VoIP, messaging and collaboration, and the virtual desktop infrastructure, as well as directory and identity services. Next, you’ll explore cloud service models such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and how to provision and integrate compute, storage, and network resources for a cloud solution. Next, you’ll examine how to integrate serverless applications, deploy and integrate virtual machines, and use OS and solution templates to provision and integrate resources into a cloud solution. Finally, you’ll learn to integrate identity management and containers and perform autoscaling and post-deployment validation of cloud solutions. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
12 videos | 1h 11m Assessment

COMPTIA CLOUD+: PROVISIONING CLOUD STORAGE
Storage in the cloud is a crucial component of any cloud-based solution. In this course, you’ll learn about the types of cloud storage you can use in your solutions and their features. First, you’ll explore how to provision and measure the performance of block, file, object, and flash storage. Next, you’ll learn about the different types of RAID arrays and the purpose of user quotas. You’ll then move on to examine the protocols used with cloud storage. You’ll learn about the features of hyperconverged storage, hyperconverged infrastructures, and software-defined storage. Finally, you’ll explore how to create and use an Azure container. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
12 videos | 1h 23m Assessment

COMPTIA CLOUD+: CLOUD NETWORK DEPLOYMENTS
Deploying cloud-based solutions efficiently and securely requires that the network be configured correctly. In this course, you’ll learn about the network services that need to be considered when deploying cloud solutions. First, you’ll explore the role of network services such as DHCP, DNS, CDN, IPAM, as well as VPNs. You’ll learn about the features of virtual routing including dynamic and static routing. Next, you’ll examine virtual network interface controllers and the features of network appliances such as load balancers, firewalls, and virtual private clouds. Finally, you’ll learn about the features of virtual LANs, single root input/output virtualization, and software-defined networks. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
12 videos | 1h 18m

COMPTIA CLOUD+: CLOUD MIGRATIONS
For a cloud-based solution to run efficiently and cost-effectively, the appropriate sizing of resources is essential. In this course, you’ll learn to configure the correct compute sizing for a deployment, as well as how to perform cloud migrations. First, you’ll explore the features of virtualization such as hypervisors and how to compute. Next, you’ll learn about the features of and how to correctly size CPUs, vCPUs, and GPUs. You’ll explore memory allocation and the features of a hyperconverged infrastructure. You’ll then learn about cloud migrations such as storage migrations, database migrations, physical to virtual migrations, virtual to virtual migrations, and cloud-to-cloud migrations. Finally, you’ll examine cloud migration implications for access control lists, firewalls, and vendor lock-in. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
12 videos | 1h 8m Assessment

COMPTIA CLOUD+: CLOUD OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Maintaining a stable cloud environment is important to ensure the health of the cloud system. In this course you will learn how to maintain efficient operation of a cloud environment. First, you will learn how to perform life cycle management, and perform change management. Next, you will learn about the configuration management database and why it is important. Next, you will learn about using dashboards and the impacts of process improvements, upgrade methods, and performance reporting. Lastly, you will learn about the options for performing patching and the types of backups and available backup objects, and to confirm the completion of backups. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
12 videos | 1h 16m Assessment

COMPTIA CLOUD+: CLOUD AUTOMATION & ORCHESTRATION
In order for cloud environments to operate efficiently you need to use automation and orchestration to keep things running smoothly. In this course, you will learn about the components and features of cloud automation and orchestration. First, you will learn about the features of infrastructure as code, continuous integration and continuous deployment. Next, you will learn about version control and configuration management and how it relates to orchestration and automation. Next, you will learn about the features of containers, cloud automation activities, secure scripting and orchestration sequencing. Finally, you will learn about backup and restore policies as well as backup targets. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
12 videos | 1h 8m Assessment