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Essential Cloud Computing Course

Essential Cloud Computing Course

Certified Cloud Professional

The Essential Cloud Computing course provides essential coverage of predictive cloud computing benefits, challenges and risks.

The Essential Cloud Computing course provides essential coverage of predictive cloud computing benefits, challenges and risks. It is suitable for IT and business professionals that would like to receive a fundamental understanding of how cloud computing works and how it can be applied in the real world.

Upon completing the course you will receive a digital certificate of completion, as well as a digital training badge from Acclaim/Credly. Upon getting certified you will also receive an official Cloud Professional digital accreditation certificate and certification badge from Acclaim/Credly, along with an account that can be used to verify your certification status.

Learning objectives

The Essential Cloud Computing course is comprised of the following 2 course modules, each of which has an estimated completion time of 10 hours:

Module 1: Fundamental Cloud Computing

Module 2: Cloud Technology Concepts

Educational approach

20 hours of Workbook Lessons & Exercises

Supporting Video Lessons

Course Completion Certificate & Badge

Certification Exam & Practice Questions

Feature-Rich eLearning Platform

Interactive Graded Exercises, Self-Test

Printable PDFs

Lifetime Access

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Module 1: Fundamental Cloud Computing

This course module provides end-to-end coverage of fundamental cloud computing topics as they pertain to both technology and business considerations. The module content is divided into a series of modular sections, each of which is accompanied by one or more hands-on exercises.

Fundamental Cloud Computing Terminology and Concepts

Basics of Virtualization

Specific Characteristics that Define a Cloud

Understanding Elasticity, Resiliency, On-Demand and Measured Usage

Benefits, Challenges and Risks of Contemporary Cloud Computing Platforms and Cloud Services

Cloud Resource Administrator and Cloud Service Owner Roles

Cloud Service and Cloud Service Consumer Roles

Understanding the IaaS, PaaS, SaaS Cloud Delivery Model

Combining Cloud Delivery Models

Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud and Community Cloud Deployment Models

Business Cost Metrics and Formulas for Comparing and Calculating Cloud and On-Premise Solution Costs

Formulas for Calculating and Rating SLA Quality of Service Characteristics

Module 2: Cloud Technology Concepts

This course module explores a range of the most important and relevant technology-related topics that pertain to contemporary cloud computing platforms. The module content does not get into implementation or programming details, but instead keeps coverage at a conceptual level, focusing on topics that address cloud service architecture, cloud security threats and technologies, virtualization and containerization.

Cloud Computing Mechanisms that Establish Architectural Building Blocks

Virtual Servers, Containers, Ready-Made Environments, Failover Systems and Pay-Per-Use Monitors

Automated Scaling Listeners, Multi-Device Brokers and Resource Replication

Understanding How Individual Cloud Computing Mechanisms Support Cloud Characteristics

An Introduction to Containerization, Container Hosting and Logical Pod Containers

A Comparison of Containerization and Virtualization

Cloud Balancing and Cloud Bursting Architectures

Common Risks, Threats and Vulnerabilities of Cloud-based Services and Cloud-hosted Solutions

Cloud Security Mechanisms used to Counter Threats and Attacks

Understanding Cloud-Based Security Groups and Hardened Virtual Server Images

Cloud Service Implementation Mediums (including Web Services and REST Services)

Cloud Storage Benefits and Challenges, Cloud Storage Services, Technologies and Approaches

Non-Relational (NoSQL) Storage Compared to Relational Storage

Cloud Service Testing Considerations and Testing Types

Service Grids and Autonomic Computing

Cloud Computing Industry Standards Organizations

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