Cloud Administration/Management

Management

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

4.1 Given a scenario, analyze defined metrics to determine the presence of an abnormality and/or forecast future needed cloud resources. 4.2 Given a scenario, determine the appropriate allocation of cloud resources. maintenance responsibility 4.3 Given a scenario, determine when to provision/deprovision cloud resources. 4.4 Given a scenario, implement account provisioning techniques in a cloud environment to meet security and policy requirements.
 * Monitoring
 * Target object baselines
 * Target object anomalies
 * Common alert methods/messaging
 * Alerting based on deviation from baseline
 * Event collection
 * Event correlation
 * Forecasting resource capacity
 * Upsize/increase
 * Downsize/decrease
 * Policies in support of event collection
 * Policies to communicate alerts appropriately
 * Resources needed based on cloud deployment models
 * Hybrid
 * Community
 * Public
 * Private
 * Capacity/elasticity of cloud environment
 * Support agreements
 * Cloud service model
 * Configuration management tool
 * Resource balancing techniques
 * Advisory board
 * Approval process
 * Document actions taken
 * CMDB
 * Spreadsheet
 * Usage patterns
 * Cloud bursting
 * Auto-scaling technology
 * Cloud provider migrations
 * Extending cloud scope
 * Application life cycle
 * Application deployment
 * Application upgrade
 * Application retirement
 * Application replacement
 * Application migration
 * Application feature use
 * Increase/decrease
 * Business need change
 * Mergers/acquisitions/divestitures
 * Cloud service requirement changes
 * Impact of regulation and law changes
 * Identification
 * Authentication methods
 * Federation
 * Single sign-on
 * Authorization methods
 * ACLs
 * Permissions
 * Account life cycle
 * Account management policy
 * Lockout
 * Password complexity rules
 * Automation and orchestration activities
 * User account creation
 * Permission settings
 * Resource access
 * User account removal
 * User account disablement