Cloud Administration/Operations

Operations

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

3.1 Given a cloud service model, determine the appropriate methodology to apply given patches. 3.2 Given a scenario, apply the appropriate automation tools to update cloud elements. 3.3 Given a scenario, apply an appropriate backup or restore method.
 * Scope of cloud elements to be patched
 * Hypervisors
 * Virtual machines
 * Virtual appliances
 * Networking components
 * Applications
 * Storage components
 * Clusters
 * Patching methodologies and standard operating procedures
 * Production vs. development vs. QA
 * Rolling update
 * Blue-green deployment
 * Failover cluster
 * Use order of operations as it pertains to elements that will be patched
 * Dependency considerations
 * Types of updates
 * Hotfix
 * Patch
 * Version update
 * Rollback
 * Automation workflow
 * Runbook management
 * Single node
 * Orchestration
 * Multiple nodes
 * Multiple runbooks
 * Activities to be performed by automation tools
 * Snapshot
 * Cloning
 * Patching
 * Restarting
 * Shut down
 * Maintenance mode
 * Enable/disable alerts
 * Backup types
 * Snapshot/redirect-on-write
 * Clone
 * Full
 * Differential
 * Incremental
 * Change block/delta tracking
 * Backup targets
 * Replicas
 * Local
 * Remote
 * Other considerations
 * SLAs
 * Backup schedule
 * Configurations
 * Objects
 * Dependencies
 * Online/offline