Name: CompTIA Cloud+ Exam Preparation Course (Self-Paced)
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This course includes

24 hours of project-based training from experts
Cloud+ exam voucher
Answers from real instructors
Retake for free within 1 year
Verified digital certificate of completion
Learn at an accredited institution
Credits: 2.4 CPEs and 2.4 CEUs

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This self-paced course covers the objectives of the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-004) exam across all six domains. It is written for systems administrators and cloud engineers who want vendor-neutral knowledge that applies across providers.

Learners study cloud architecture, deployment and migration, operations, security, and DevOps fundamentals. The course closes with a troubleshooting approach to common deployment, network, and security issues.

Target Audience

This course is written for systems administrators, cloud engineers, and infrastructure staff who have hands-on experience managing servers, virtual machines, or cloud resources, consistent with CompTIA's own recommendation of 2 to 3 years of experience plus Network+ and Server+ level knowledge, and who want to organize that experience into vendor-neutral, certification-ready knowledge. Familiarity with basic networking and server administration concepts is assumed. This course is not for complete beginners with no infrastructure experience, and it is not for cloud architects who already need vendor-specific depth in a single provider's platform; those learners should look for an introductory IT course or a vendor-specific certification, respectively.

This course has a prerequisite

CompTIA recommends 2 to 3 years as a systems administrator or cloud engineer, plus Network+ and Server+ level knowledge.

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This course includes

24 hours of project-based training from experts
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Verified digital certificate of completion
Learn at an accredited institution
Credits: 2.4 CPEs and 2.4 CEUs

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CompTIA Cloud+ Exam Preparation Course (Self-Paced) Curriculum

What You'll Learn at a Glance

Distinguish IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and FaaS and explain the shared responsibility model.
Apply disaster recovery metrics and site strategies to a described availability scenario.
Select the appropriate cloud networking component, from a VPN to a transit gateway, for a described requirement.
Match a data set's access pattern and structure to the correct storage tier, storage type, and database type.
Distinguish virtualization from containerization and identify the storage and networking choices each requires.
Apply cloud-native design and cost-management practices to reduce cost and improve resilience.
Select an appropriate cloud deployment model and release strategy for a described risk tolerance.
Recommend a migration strategy, of the six application migration strategies, for a described legacy application.
Distinguish infrastructure as code from configuration as code and provision cloud resources against a stated set of requirements.
Apply observability practices and scaling approaches to a workload with unpredictable demand.
Select an appropriate backup, recovery, and life cycle management approach for a cloud resource.
Apply the vulnerability management life cycle and identify the compliance standard that governs a described data type.
Select the appropriate authentication and authorization model for a described access scenario.
Apply cloud security best practices and controls, and recognize common cloud attack types from suspicious activity.
Identify core DevOps concepts, including source control, CI/CD pipelines, and common automation tools.
Apply a troubleshooting approach to common cloud deployment, network, and security issues.

Course Syllabus

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Module 1: Cloud Service Models and the Shared Responsibility Model

Lessons:
- Cloud Service Models: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Function as a Service and Serverless Computing
- The Shared Responsibility Model
Applied activity: Learners review a short scenario describing a company evaluating three different workloads and match each to the service model that fits it, then identify which party is responsible for a stated security control under the shared responsibility model.

Module 2: Service Availability, Resilience, and Disaster Recovery

Lessons:
- Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Computing
- Cloud Bursting and Availability Monitoring
- Disaster Recovery Metrics: RTO and RPO
- DR Site Strategies: Hot, Warm, and Cold Sites
- Multicloud Tenancy Strategies
Applied activity: Learners review a short scenario describing an organization's recovery time and budget requirements and select an appropriate DR site strategy, then justify it using RTO and RPO.

Module 3: Cloud Networking Concepts

Lessons:
- VPNs and Dedicated Connections
- Load Balancers, Application Gateways, CDNs, and Firewalls
- Virtual Private Clouds: Peering and Transit Gateways
- Subnets in a Cloud Network
- Cloud Routing and Switching: VLANs, SDN, BGP, and Route Tables
Applied activity: Learners review a short scenario describing two VPCs that need to communicate and a public-facing application that needs traffic distributed across multiple instances, then select the appropriate networking components for each need.

Module 4: Cloud Storage and Database Concepts

Lessons:
- Storage Tiers: Hot, Warm, Cold, and Archive
- Disk Types and Storage Types: Object, Block, and File
- Performance and Cost Tradeoffs in Cloud Storage
- Database Types and Deployment Options
Applied activity: Learners review a short scenario describing several data sets with different access frequencies and durability needs and assign each to the correct storage tier and storage type, then recommend a database type and deployment option for a described application.

Module 5: Virtualization and Containerization

Lessons:
- Virtual Machine Fundamentals: Stand-Alone, Clustering, and Cloning
- Host Affinity, Hardware Pass-Through, and VM Networking and Storage
- Container Fundamentals and Workload Orchestration
- Container Networking and Port Mapping
- Container Storage and Image Registries
Applied activity: Learners review a short scenario describing an application being migrated from virtual machines to containers and identify which virtualization and containerization concepts apply at each stage, including storage and networking choices.

Module 6: Cloud-Native Design, Cost Management, and Emerging Technologies

Lessons:
- Cloud-Native Design: Microservices and Loosely Coupled Architecture
- Cost Considerations: Billing Models and Rightsizing
- Optimizing Cloud Workloads
- Machine Learning and AI in the Cloud
- Internet of Things (IoT) in the Cloud
Applied activity: Learners review a short scenario describing a monolithic application with rising cloud costs and propose at least one cloud-native design change and one cost-management change that would address it.

Module 7: Cloud Deployment Models and Strategies

Lessons:
- Cloud Deployment Models: Public, Private, Hybrid, and Community
- Deployment Strategies: Blue-Green and Canary
- Deployment Strategies: Rolling and In-Place
Applied activity: Learners review a short scenario describing an organization choosing a deployment model for a new application and a release strategy for updating it, and select the model and strategy that best fit the stated risk tolerance.

Module 8: Cloud Migration Planning

Lessons:
- Cloud Migration Types
- Resource Allocation Considerations for a Migration
- The Six Application Migration Strategies
- Weighing Migration Tradeoffs in a Real Scenario
Applied activity: Learners review a short scenario describing a portfolio of legacy applications with different technical and business constraints and assign each application the migration strategy that best fits it.

Module 9: Code-Based Deployment and Resource Provisioning

Lessons:
- Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code
- Scripting Logic for Automation
- Repeatability, Drift Detection, Versioning, and Testing
- Provisioning Cloud Resources to Meet Requirements
Applied activity: Learners review a short scenario listing an application's storage, performance, security, cost, and compliance requirements and select the cloud resources that satisfy them, then identify how infrastructure as code would make that provisioning repeatable.

Module 10: Observability, Scaling, and Elasticity

Lessons:
- Logging: Collection, Aggregation, and Retention
- Alerting, Tracing, and Monitoring
- Scaling Approaches: Triggered, Scheduled, and Manual
- Horizontal and Vertical Scaling
Applied activity: Learners review a short scenario describing an application with unpredictable traffic spikes and design an observability and scaling approach, selecting the correct scaling trigger and scaling type.

Module 11: Backup, Recovery, and Cloud Resource Life Cycle Management

Lessons:
- Backup Types and Locations
- Backup Schedule, Retention, Replication, and Encryption
- Recovery Types, Recovery Options, and Backup Testing
- Patching, Updates, and Decommissioning Cloud Resources
Applied activity: Learners review a short scenario describing an application's recovery point and recovery time requirements and select an appropriate backup type, schedule, and recovery approach, then identify the life cycle stage of a resource nearing end of support.

Module 12: Vulnerability Management, Compliance, and Regulation

Lessons:
- The Vulnerability Management Life Cycle
- Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
- Data Sovereignty, Ownership, Locality, and Retention
- Industry Compliance Standards: SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and CSA
Applied activity: Learners review a short scenario describing a company storing regulated customer data across multiple countries and identify the data sovereignty and compliance considerations that apply, then walk a described vulnerability through the management life cycle from identification to remediation.

Module 13: Identity and Access Management in the Cloud

Lessons:
- Secure Access to the Cloud Management Environment
- Secure Access to Cloud Resources: SSH, RDP, and Bastion Hosts
- Authentication Models: Federation, SAML, and MFA
- Authorization Models: RBAC and OAuth 2.0
- Accounting and Audit Trails
Applied activity: Learners review a short scenario describing a company setting up access for employees, external partners, and automated scripts and select the appropriate authentication and authorization model for each group.

Module 14: Security Best Practices, Controls, and Attack Monitoring

Lessons:
- Zero Trust, Benchmarks, and Hardening
- Encryption, Secrets Management, and API Security
- Container and Storage Security
- Cloud Security Controls: DLP, IPS/IDS, DDoS Protection, and Firewalls
- Monitoring for Suspicious Activity and Common Attack Types
Applied activity: Learners review a short scenario describing a cloud environment with several described weaknesses, including an overly permissive IAM policy, an unencrypted storage bucket, and an unpatched container image, and identify which security best practice or control addresses each weakness, then identify the attack type suggested by a described set of suspicious activity indicators.

Module 15: DevOps Fundamentals: Source Control, CI/CD, and Tools

Lessons:
- Source Control Concepts
- CI/CD Pipeline Concepts: Build, Test, and Deploy
- Integration of Systems: REST, SOAP, and GraphQL
- DevOps Tools for Automation and Configuration
- DevOps Tools for Monitoring, Orchestration, and CI/CD
Applied activity: Learners review a short scenario describing a development team's manual, error-prone release process and identify which source control practice, CI/CD pipeline stage, or DevOps tool would address each described pain point.

Module 16: Troubleshooting Cloud Deployment, Network, and Security Issues

Lessons:
- Troubleshooting Deployment Issues: Misconfigurations and Resource Limits
- Troubleshooting Outages and Regional Service Availability
- Troubleshooting Network Issues: Service Unavailability and Performance
- Troubleshooting Routing and Switching Issues
- Troubleshooting Security Issues
Applied activity: Learners review a short, described set of symptoms for a failed deployment, a network connectivity complaint, and a suspicious access pattern, and classify each as a deployment, network, or security issue, then identify the most likely specific cause.

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