Cloud Administration/Deployment

Deployment

Objectives and Skills[edit | edit source]

Objectives and skills for the deployment portion of CompTIA Cloud+ certification include:^[1]

1.2 Given a scenario, execute a provided deployment plan.

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

1.5 Given a scenario, analyze sizing, subnetting, and basic routing for a provided deployment of the virtual network.

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

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.

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

1.8 Given a scenario, analyze characteristics of the workload (storage, network, compute) to ensure a successful migration.

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

1.9 Given a scenario, apply elements required to extend the infrastructure into a given cloud solution.