CompTIA Cloud Essentials Training

CompTIA Cloud Essentials training lays emphasis on the technical and business perspectives of cloud environment. It explains how cloud computing is affecting the businesses and its successful adoption. The expert professionals will impart knowledge on the primary principles of cloud computing and provide hands-on practice on the changes of cloud computing on IT Service Management. The CompTIA Cloud Essentials certification training delivered is vendor-neutral and the learned concepts can be applied to any cloud computing product from any company, including, AWS, IBM, HP, Microsoft, Cisco and more.

CompTIA Cloud essentials course, can be helpful in the following ways:

• Describe the fundamentals of cloud computing
• Differentiate among different types of clouds and services offered
• Understand how to adopt, operate, and govern the cloud
• Demonstrate how cloud computing can impact the business
• Explain the technical perspective of cloud computing
• Define the challenges and risk for cloud computing and methods to mitigate them
• Identify how to integrate the existing framework of an organization into cloud computing

Target audience

• Technical Support Executives
• New Data Center Officials
• Business Process Owners
• Managed Service Providers
• Sales and Marketing personnel

Prerequisites

The candidates with six months of working experience in an IT environment can undergo this training.

Exams (optional)

1. Characteristics of Cloud Services from a Business

• Understand common terms and definitions of cloud computing and provide examples
• Describe the relationship between cloud computing and virtualization
• Name early examples of cloud computing
• Understand several common definitions of cloud computing and their commonalities/differences
• Recognize what type of organizations might benefit from cloud computing
• Distinguish between the different types of clouds, including XaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and give examples of them

2. Cloud Computing and Business Value

• Recognize the similarities and differences between cloud computing and outsourcing
• Understand the following characteristics of clouds and cloud services from a business perspective
• Demonstrate how the characteristics of cloud computing enhance business value

3. Technical Perspectives/Cloud Types

• Understand the difference between private and public types of clouds from a technical perspective and provide example
• Understand at a high level the following important techniques and methods for cloud computing deployment
• Explain technical challenges and risks for cloud computing and methods to mitigate them for
• Describe the impact of cloud computing on application architecture and the application-development process

4. Steps to Successful Adoption of Cloud

• Explain typical steps that lead to a successful adoption of cloud computing service
• Understand the roles and capabilities of cloud computing vendors and dependencies on the vendors
• Understand the following organizational capabilities that are relevant for realizing cloud benefits
• Describe multiple approaches for migrating applications

5. Impact and Changes of Cloud Computing on IT Service Management

• Understand the impact and changes cloud computing on IT service management in a typical organization
• Use a structured approach based on ITIL to explore the potential impact of cloud computing in your organization

6. Risks and Consequences of Cloud Computing

• Explain and identify the issues associated with integrating cloud computing into an organization's existing compliance risk and regulatory framework
• Explain the implications for direct cost and cost allocations
• Understand how to maintain strategic flexibility