Cloud Administration/Operations
Operations
Objectives and Skills
[edit | edit source]Objectives and skills for the operations portion of CompTIA Cloud+ certification include:[1]
3.1 Given a cloud service model, determine the appropriate methodology to apply given patches.
- 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
3.2 Given a scenario, apply the appropriate automation tools to update cloud elements.
- Types of updates
- Hotfix
- Patch
- Version update
- Rollback
- Automation workflow
- Runbook management
- Single node
- Orchestration
- Multiple nodes
- Multiple runbooks
- Runbook management
- Activities to be performed by automation tools
- Snapshot
- Cloning
- Patching
- Restarting
- Shut down
- Maintenance mode
- Enable/disable alerts
3.3 Given a scenario, apply an appropriate backup or restore method.
- 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