Cloud Administration/Deployment

Deployment

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for the deployment portion of CompTIA Cloud+ certification include:

1.2 Given a scenario, execute a provided deployment plan. 1.5 Given a scenario, analyze sizing, subnetting, and basic routing for a provided deployment of the virtual network. 1.6 Given a scenario, analyze CPU and memory sizing for a provided deployment. 1.7 Given a scenario, analyze the appropriate storage type and protection capability for a provided deployment. 1.8 Given a scenario, analyze characteristics of the workload (storage, network, compute) to ensure a successful migration. 1.9 Given a scenario, apply elements required to extend the infrastructure into a given cloud solution.
 * Apply the Change Management Process
 * Approvals
 * Scheduling
 * Refer to documentation and follow standard operating procedures
 * Execute workflow
 * Configure automation and orchestration, where appropriate, for the system being deployed
 * Use commands and tools as needed
 * Document results
 * Cloud deployment models
 * Public
 * Private
 * Hybrid
 * Community
 * Network components
 * Applicable port and protocol considerations when extending to the cloud
 * Determine configuration for the applicable platform as it applies to the network
 * VPN
 * IDS/IPS
 * DMZ
 * VXLAN
 * Address space required
 * Network segmentation and micro-segmentation
 * Determine if cloud resources are consistent with the SLA and/or change management requirements
 * Available vs. proposed resources
 * CPU
 * RAM
 * Memory technologies
 * Bursting and ballooning
 * Overcommitment ratio
 * CPU technologies
 * Hyperthreading
 * VT-x
 * Overcommitment ratio
 * Effect to HA/DR
 * Performance considerations
 * Cost considerations
 * Energy savings
 * Dedicated compute environment vs. shared compute environment
 * Requested IOPS and read/write throughput
 * Protection capabilities
 * High availability
 * Failover zones
 * Storage replication
 * Regional
 * Multiregional
 * Synchronous and asynchronous
 * Storage mirroring
 * Cloning
 * Redundancy level/factor
 * Storage types
 * NAS
 * DAS
 * SAN
 * Object storage
 * Access protocols
 * Management differences
 * Provisioning model
 * Thick provisioned
 * Thin provisioned
 * Encryption requirements
 * Tokenization
 * Storage technologies
 * Deduplication technologies
 * Compression technologies
 * Storage tiers
 * Overcommitting storage
 * Security configurations for applicable platforms
 * ACLs
 * Obfuscation
 * Zoning
 * User/host authentication and authorization
 * Migration types
 * P2V
 * V2V
 * V2P
 * P2P
 * Storage migrations
 * Online vs. offline migrations
 * Source and destination format of the workload
 * Virtualization format
 * Application and data portability
 * Network connections and data transfer methodologies
 * Standard operating procedures for the workload migration
 * Environmental constraints
 * Bandwidth
 * Working hour restrictions
 * Downtime impact
 * Peak timeframes
 * Legal restrictions
 * Follow-the-sun constraints/time zones
 * Identity management elements
 * Identification
 * Authentication
 * Authorization
 * Approvals
 * Access policy
 * Federation
 * Single sign-on
 * Appropriate protocols given requirements
 * Element considerations to deploy infrastructure services such as:
 * DNS
 * DHCP
 * Certificate services
 * Local agents
 * Antivirus
 * Load balancer
 * Multifactor authentication
 * Firewall
 * IPS/IDS