Cloud Awareness (Entry Level)

Topics covered

• compare cloud deployment models
• compare cloud types
• compare traditional on-premises IT solutions to their cloud equivalences
• define cloud computing
• describe how cloud providers enable customer access at low costs through opex
• describe the concept of the virtualization of hardware resources and how they are allocated to VMs running in the cloud server
• describe the Internet of Things (IoT) and how it applies to cloud computing
• describe the key components and the pros and cons of using the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) service model
• describe the key components and the pros and cons of using the Platform as a Service (PaaS) service model
• describe the key components and the pros and cons of using the Software as a Service (SaaS) service model
• describe the Software as a Service cloud computing consumption model
• describe the various cloud deployment models such as public, private, hybrid, community, virtual private, and multi-cloud and multitenancy environments
• identify how private clouds differ from other cloud types
• identify how public clouds differ from other cloud types
• identify the critical components of a virtual private cloud along with the various interface types provided by cloud providers to manage a virtual private cloud
• identify the features and capabilities of cloud storage that facilitate reliable and efficient persistence implementation
• list cloud computing characteristics
• list the various essential components that are required to set up a cloud computing model
• recall the concept of shared resource pooling and the role of virtualization in a cloud model
• recognize how the intrusion detection system (IDS) works in the cloud