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Introduction
What Does This Book Cover?
This book follows the most recent version of the CompTIA Cloud+ exam, CV0-002.
The exam blueprint is divided into ve sections consisting of ten chapters that cover all
the major topic areas. Each section is explained in sufcient detail to help you become a
Cloud+ certied professional.
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Cloud Computing Configurations and Deployments The
book starts out investigating the most common cloud components such as applications,
compute, storage, and networking. Then how to determine the correct size and scale of
the systems is discussed. You will get a basic understanding of congurations found in the
cloud and learn about production, quality assurance, and development cloud systems.
Chapter 2: Cloud Deployments In this chapter you’ll learn about deploying services inthe
cloud and how to execute a deployment plan; the most common service models; and the
various ways that clouds are delivered such as public, private, and community. Common
cloud terminology and storage are explained.
Next, the technical background is presented on how to determine the needs and design an
effective cloud deployment. This includes what virtualization is, its benets, and why it is
a central technology in cloud computing. You’ll learn about hypervisors, virtual machines,
and how to migrate from your existing operations to the cloud.
Chapter 3: Security in the Cloud Chapter 3 covers cloud security starting with security
polices, laws and standards. You will then learn about specic security technologies, appli-
cations, and services.
Chapter 4: Implementing Cloud Security Chapter 4 builds on your security knowledge
by explaining how to implement secure storage, networks, and compute systems. Security
tools, intrusion systems, encryption, tools, techniques, and services are introduced.
Chapter 5: Maintaining Cloud Operations This chapter focuses on keeping your cloud
deployment current with the latest updates and discusses the processes to follow. Automation
is introduced, and you will learn about the importance of cloud automation and orchestration
systems. The chapter concludes with a discussion on backing up your data in the cloud.
Chapter 6: Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and Ongoing Maintenance We’ll take
a step back in this chapter and cover how to go about developing a disaster recovery plan
and the common models available. You will learn the importance of business survivability
during a severe outage and understand the issues concerning recovery. The chapter ends
with describing how to perform ongoing maintenance in your cloud environment.
Chapter 7: Cloud Management You’ll now delve deep into the operations aspects of cloud
computing. Chapter 7 begins with a discussion of monitoring the cloud and then moves
on to look at the allocation and provisioning of resources. Then you will learn about busi-
ness requirements, application life cycles, and the impact they have on managing your cloud
deployment. The chapter concludes with discussion on security of your cloud operations
with accounts, automation, authentication and automation models.