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.

• 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

4.2 Given a scenario, determine the appropriate allocation of cloud resources.

• Resources needed based on cloud deployment models
  • Hybrid
  • Community
  • Public
  • Private
• Capacity/elasticity of cloud environment
• Support agreements
  • Cloud service model

maintenance responsibility

• Configuration management tool
• Resource balancing techniques
  • Advisory board
  • Approval process
  • Document actions taken
    • CMDB
    • Spreadsheet

4.3 Given a scenario, determine when to provision/deprovision cloud resources.

• 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

4.4 Given a scenario, implement account provisioning techniques in a cloud environment to meet security and policy requirements.

• 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

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