CompTIA Cloud+ Certification (Exam CV0-004)

Course Specifications

Course Number: BIR84–050_rev1.0

Course Length: 5 days

Course Description

Welcome to CompTIA Cloud+ Certification CV0-004. This course provides the basic knowledge and skills needed to analyze, deploy, automate, and secure cloud resources in a vendor-neutral format. It includes provisioning virtual and cloud resources, configuring high availability systems, automating and optimizing cloud deployments, securing resources and identity systems, monitoring and responding to issues, and troubleshooting problems in the cloud.

This course maps to the CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-004 certification exam. You can download an objective map from www.30bird.com.

You will benefit most from this course if you intend to take the CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-004 exam or if you wish to attain an introduction to the core principles and skills of managing cloud deployments from a customer or provider perspective. This course assumes you have some applied knowledge of computers, networks, and cybersecurity principles. Knowledge equivalent to the CompTIA Network+ and/or Server+ certification is helpful but not necessary.

This course assumes that students have some applied knowledge of computers, networks, and cybersecurity principles. Knowledge equivalent to the CompTIA Security+ certification is helpful but not necessary.

After completing this course, you will know how to:

• Describe cloud computing concepts, benefits, models, and environments
• Configure virtual compute, storage, and network resources
• Deploy cloud resources, including application services and high-availability systems
• Use automation and orchestration tools such as scripting, IaC, and DevOps pipelines
• Plan appropriate cloud solutions and service migrations based on project requirements
• Perform cloud operations tasks such monitoring and logging, resource optimization, and service upgrades
• Improve business continuity by planning for disaster recovery and performing backup and restore operations
• Secure cloud environments by performing security assessments and configuring identity and access management systems.
• Secure cloud resources such as data, VMs, networks, hosts, and applications
• Troubleshoot problems with cloud deployments, networks, and security infrastructure

Course Content

Chapter 1: Cloud computing fundamentals

Module A: Cloud computing concepts
Module B: Cloud models
Module C: Cloud environments

Chapter 2: Resource virtualization

Module A: Compute resources
Module B: Storage solutions
Module C: Networking solutions

Chapter 3: Service deployment

Module A: Infrastructure provisioning
Module B: Application services
Module C: High availability services

Chapter 4: Automation and development

Module A: Automation and orchestration
Module B: DevOps fundamentals

Chapter 5: Planning cloud solutions

Module A: Capacity planning
Module B: Service migrations

Chapter 6: Cloud operations

Module A: Logging and monitoring systems
Module B: Resource optimization
Module C: Environmental maintenance and updates

Chapter 7: Disaster planning

Module A: Disaster recovery
Module B: Cloud backup

Chapter 8: Securing cloud environments

Module A: Cloud security overview
Module B: Security assessment and remediation
Module C: Identity and access management

Chapter 9: Securing cloud resources

Module A: Data security and compliance
Module B: Secure cloud networking
Module C: Secure cloud resources

Chapter 10: Cloud troubleshooting