CompTIA Cloud Essentials+

Course Description

CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ is the only internationally recognized, vendor-neutral certification utilizing key business principles and fundamental cloud concepts that validate data-driven cloud recommendations. It stands alone in this field by demonstrating that all necessary staff members—not just the IT specialists—understand how to increase efficiency, manage costs, and reduce security risks for organizations whenever tasked with making current cloud technology decisions.

Program Objectives

• Prepare to deploy cloud solutions.
• Deploy a pilot project.
• Test a pilot project deployment.
• Design a secure network for cloud deployment.
• Determine CPU and memory sizing for cloud deployments.
• Determine storage requirements for cloud deployments.
• Plan Identity and Access Management for cloud deployments.
• Analyze workload characteristics to ensure successful migration to the cloud.
• Secure systems to meet access requirements.
• Maintain cloud systems.
• Implement backup, restore, and business continuity measures.
• Analyze cloud systems for required performance.
• Analyze cloud systems for anomalies and growth forecasting.
• Troubleshoot deployment, capacity, automation, and orchestration issues.
• Troubleshoot connectivity issues.
• Troubleshoot security issues.

Prerequisites

• To ensure your success in this course, you should have 24-36 months’ experience with IT networking, network storage, and data center administration.
• You should also have familiarity with any major hypervisor technologies for server virtualization, basic knowledge of common cloud service models, and common cloud deployment models.

Exam Details

Number of Questions: 75 questions
Type of Questions: Multiple-choice and performance-based
Length of Test: 60 Minutes
Passing Score: 720 (on a scale of 100-900)

Recommended Experience

Between six months to a year of work experience as a business analyst in an IT environment with some exposure to cloud technologies