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• Use the appropriate cloud service model.
• Cloud service models
• Shared responsibility model
• Explain concepts related to service availability.
• Resource availability
• Disaster recovery (DR)
• Multicloud tenancy
• Explain cloud networking concepts.
• Public and private connections to the cloud
• Network functions, components, and services
• Compare and contrast storage resources and technologies.
• Tiered storage
• Disk types
• Storage types
• Performance implications
• Cost implications
• Explain the purpose of cloud-native design concepts.
• Cloud-provided managed services
• Microservices
• Loosely coupled architecture
• Fan-out
• Service discovery
• Compare and contrast containerization concepts.
• Stand-alone
• Workload orchestration
• Networking
• Compare and contrast virtualization concepts.
• Stand-alone
• Clustering
• Cloning
• Host affinity
• Hardware pass-through
• Network types
• Summarize cost considerations related to cloud usage.
• Billing models
• Resource metering
• Tagging
• Rightsizing
• Explain the importance of database concepts.
• Deployment options
• Compare and contrast methods for optimizing workloads using cloud resources.
• Compute resources
• Orchestration
• Workflow
• Network
• Storage
• Managed services
• Identify evolving technologies in the cloud.
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)
• Internet of Things (IoT)

• Compare and contrast cloud deployment models.
• Public and Private
• Hybrid
• Community
• Implement appropriate deployment strategies.
• Blue-green
• Canary
• Rolling
• In-place
• Summarize aspects of cloud migration.
• Migration types
• Resource allocation
• Considerations
• Application migration strategies
• Use code to deploy and configure cloud resources
• Infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Configuration as code (CaC)
• Scripting logic
• Provision the appropriate cloud resources.
• Repeatability
• Drift detection
• Versioning
• Testing
• Documentation
• Formats

• Configure appropriate resources to achieve observability.
• Logging
• Tracing and Monitoring
• Alerting
• Configure appropriate scaling approaches.
• Approaches
• Types
• Use appropriate backup and recovery methods.
• Backup types
• Backup locations
• Schedule
• Retention and Replication
• Encryption
• Testing
• Recovery types and Options
• Manage the life cycle of cloud resources.
• Patches
• Updates
• Testing
• Data
• Decommissioning

• Explain vulnerability management concepts.
• Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)
• Compare and contrast aspects of compliance and regulation.
• Data sovereignty
• Data ownership
• Data locality
• Data classification
• Data retention
• Implement identity and access management.
• Secure access to the cloud management environment
• Authentication models
• Authorization models
• Accounting
• Apply security best practices.
• Zero Trust
• Benchmark
• Hardening
• Patching
• Encryption
• Secrets management
• API security
• Principle of least privilege
• Container security
• Apply security controls in the cloud.
• Endpoint protection
• Data loss prevention (DLP)
• Intrusion prevention system/intrusion detection system (IPS/IDS)
• Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection
• Identity and access management (IAM) policies
• Firewall
• Monitor suspicious activities to identify common attacks.
• Event monitoring
• Deviation from the baseline
• Unnecessary open ports
• Attack types

• Explain source control concepts.
• Version management
• Code review
• Pull request
• Code push
• Code commit
• Code merge
• Branch management
• Explain concepts related to continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Automation
• Code integration
• Code deployment - Build
• Testing
• Security
• Workflow
• Artifacts
• Repositories
• Explain concepts related to integration of systems.
• Event-driven architectures
• Web services
• Explain the importance of tools used in DevOps environments.
• Ansible
• Docker
• Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) stack
• GitHub actions
• Grafana, Jenkins, Kubernetes and Terraform

• Given a scenario, troubleshoot deployment issues.
• Incompatibility
• Misconfigurations
• Outdated component definitions
• Deprecation of functionality
• Outages
• Troubleshoot network issues
• Network service unavailability
• Latency
• Bandwidth/throughput issues
• Network device misconfiguration
• Protocol incompatibility
• Protocol deprecations
• IP addressing issues
• Troubleshoot security issues
• Cipher suite deprecations
• Authorization issues
• Software vulnerability issues
• Unauthorized software

CompTIA Cloud+ is a vendor-neutral cloud certification that validates the skills needed to deploy, manage, secure, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure. It is designed for IT professionals who work with cloud technologies and hybrid cloud environments.

CompTIA Cloud+ training covers key cloud infrastructure and administration topics, including cloud architecture, cloud security, deployment, operations, troubleshooting, automation, resource management, and business continuity.

Cloud+ training is ideal for cloud engineers, cloud administrators, systems administrators, network administrators, IT professionals, data center professionals, and cybersecurity professionals who work with or are moving into cloud and hybrid cloud environments.

Yes. Our Cloud+ training is available through live online instructor-led training and in-person classroom training, providing flexible options for individuals and organizations.

CompTIA Cloud+ can help demonstrate your ability to work with cloud infrastructure, hybrid cloud environments, cloud security, deployment, operations, and troubleshooting. The certification can support career advancement in cloud administration, cloud engineering, systems administration, and related IT roles.

CompTIA Cloud+ is a vendor-neutral cloud certification, meaning it focuses on broadly applicable cloud infrastructure and administration skills rather than a specific cloud platform. This makes it useful for IT professionals who work across different cloud technologies and environments.