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Management
Objectives and Skills[edit | edit source]
Objectives and skills for the management portion of CompTIA Cloud+ certification include:[1]
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
- Federation
- 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