This 5 day instructor led class validates the knowledge and best practices required of IT practitioners working in cloud computing environments to best understand and deliver cloud infrastructure.
Class Audience:
• Project manager, cloud computing services
• Cloud engineer
• Manager, data center SAN Preview
• Business analyst, cloud computing
Student / Class Prerequisites:
• CompTIA Network+ and/or CompTIA Storage+ Powered by SNIA, though CompTIA certifications are not required.
• Have at least 24-36 months of work experience in IT networking, network storage, or data center administration.
• Familiarity with any major hypervisor technologies for server virtualization, though vendor-specific certifications in virtualization are not required.
Class Outline:
1.0 Cloud Concepts and Models
1.1 Compare and contrast cloud services.
• SaaS (according to NIST)
• IaaS (according to NIST)
• CaaS (according to NIST)
• PaaS (according to NIST)
• XaaS (according to NIST)
• DaaS (according to NIST)
• BPaaS
• Accountability and responsibility based on service models
1.2 Compare and contrast cloud delivery models and services.
• Private
• Public
• Hybrid
• Community
• On-premise vs. Off-premise hosting
• Accountability and responsibility based on delivery models
• Security differences between models
• Functionality and performance validation based on chosen delivery model
• Orchestration platforms
1.3 Summarize cloud characteristics and terms.
• Elasticity
• On-demand self serve/just in time service
• Pay-as-you-grow
• Chargeback
• Ubiquitous access
• Metering resource pooling
• Multitenancy
• Cloud bursting
• Rapid deployment
• Automation
1.4 Explain object storage concepts.
• Object ID
• Metadata
• Data/blob
• Extended metadata
• Policies
• Replicas
• Access control
2.0 Virtualization
2.1 Explain the differences between hypervisor types.
• Type I and Type II
• Proprietary vs. open source
• Consumer vs. enterprise use
2.2 Install, configure, and manage virtual machines and devices.
• Creating, importing, and exporting template and virtual machines
• Install guest tools
• Snapshots and cloning
• Image backups vs. file backups
• Virtual NIC
• Virtual disks
• Virtual switches
• VLAN
• VSAN
2.3 Given a scenario, perform virtual resource migration.
• Establish requirements
• Maintenance scheduling
• Reasons
• Storage migration
• Online vs. offline migrations
• Physical to Virtual (P2V)
• Virtual to Virtual (V2V)
• Virtual to Physical (V2P)
2.4 Explain the benefits of virtualization in a cloud environment.
• Shared resources
• Elasticity
• Network and application isolation
• Infrastructure consolidation
• Virtual datacenter creation
2.5 Compare and contrast virtual components used to construct a cloud environment.
• Virtual network components
• Shared memory
• Virtual CPU & Storage Virtualization
3.0 Infrastructure
3.1 Compare and contrast various storage technologies.
• Network Attached Storage (NAS)
• Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
• Storage Area Network (SAN)
• Different access protocols
• Protocols and applications
• Management differences
3.2 Explain storage configuration concepts.
• Disk types
• Tiering
• RAID levels
• File system types
3.3 Execute storage provisioning.
• Creating LUNs
• Creating network shares
• Zoning and LUN masking
• Multipathing
• Implications of adding capacity to a NAS and SAN
3.4 Given a scenario, implement appropriate network configurations.
• NAT
• PAT
• Subnetting/Supernetting
• VLAN and VLAN tagging
• Network port configurations
• Switching and routing in physical and virtual environments
3.5 Explain the importance of network optimization.
• WAN
• LAN
• MAN
• Bandwidth
• Latency
• Compression
• Caching
• Load balancing
• Devices on the same subnet
3.6 Given a scenario, troubleshoot basic network connectivity issues.
• Tools
• Review documentation and device configuration settings
• Review system logs
3.7 Explain common network protocols, ports, and topologies.
• Trunk ports
• Port binding/aggregation
• Common ports
• Common protocols
• Types of networks
3.8 Explain common hardware resources and features used to enable virtual environments.
• BIOS/firmware configurations
• Minimum memory capacity and configuration
• Number of CPUs
• Number of Cores
• NICs quantity, speeds, and configurations
• Internal hardware compatibility
• HBAs
• Storage media
4.0 Network Management
4.1 Given a scenario, implement and use proper resource monitoring techniques.
• Protocols
• Alert methods
• Establish baselines and thresholds
• Automated responses to specific events
• Examine processes usage / resource usage
4.2 Given a scenario, appropriately allocate physical (host) resources using best practices.
• Memory
• CPU
• Storage and network allocation
• Entitlement/quotas (shares)
• Reservations
• Licensing
• Resource pooling
4.3 Given a scenario, appropriately allocate virtual (guest) resources using best practices.
• Virtual CPU
• Memory
• Storage and network allocation
• Entitlement/quotas (shares)
• Hard limit, soft limit
• Reservations, licensing
• Dynamic resource allocation
• Resource pooling
• CPU affinity
• Physical resource redirection and mapping to virtual resources
4.4 Given a scenario, use appropriate tools for remote access.
• Remote hypervisor access
• RDP
• SSH
• Console port
• HTTP
5.0 Security
5.1 Explain network security concepts, tools, and best practices.
• ACLs
• VPNs
• IDS/IPS hardware/software-based firewalls
• DMZ
• Review / audit logs
• Attacks
5.2 Explain storage security concepts, methods, and best practices.
• Obfuscation
• Access Control Lists
• Zoning
• LUN masking
• User and host authentication
• Review/audit logs
5.3 Compare contrast different encryption technologies and methods.
• PKI
• IPSEC
• SSL/TLS
• Ciphers
• Encryption for data in transit and encryption for data at rest
5.4 Identify access control methods.
• Role-based administration
• Mandatory access controls
• Discretionary access controls
• Multifactor authentication
• Single sign-on
• Federation
5.5 Implement guest and host hardening techniques.
• Disabling unneeded ports and services
• User credentials
• Host-based/software firewalls
• Antivirus software
• Patching
• Deactivating default accounts
6.0 Systems Management
6.1 Explain policies and procedures as they relate to a cloud environment.
• Network and IP planning/documentation
• Configuration standardization and documentation
• Change management best practices
• Configuration management
• Capacity management
• Systems life cycle management
• Maintenance windows
6.2 Given a scenario, diagnose, remediate and optimize physical host performance.
• Disk performance
• Disk tuning
• Disk latency
• Swap disk space
• I/O tuning
• Performance management and monitoring tools
• Establish baseline and create documentation with appropriate tools
• Hypervisor configuration best practices
• Impact of configuration changes to the virtual environment
• Common issues
6.3 Explain common performance concepts as they relate to the host and the guest.
• IOPS
• Read vs. write files
• File system performance
• Metadata performance
• Caching
• Bandwidth
• Throughput (bonding/teaming)
• Jumbo frames
• Network latency
• Hop counts
• QoS
• Multpathing
• Load balancing
• Scaling
6.4 Implement appropriate testing techniques when deploying cloud services.
• Test replication
• Test latency
• Test bandwidth
• Test load balancing
• Test application servers
• Test storage
• Test application delivery
• Service performance testing and application performance testing
• Penetration testing
• Vulnerability assessment
• Separation of duties during testing
7.0 Business Continuity in the Cloud
7.1 Compare and contrast disaster recovery methods and concepts.
• Redundancy
• Failover
• Geographical diversity
• Failback
• Replication
• Site mirroring
• Hot site
• Cold site
• Warm site
• Backup and recovery
• Archiving and offsite storage
• Replication types
• RTO
• RPO
• MTBF
• MTTR
• Mission critical requirements
7.2 Deploy solutions to meet availability requirements.
• Fault tolerance
• Multipathing
• Load balancing
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