Description: Having a secure cloud environment is crucial for ensuring system and data integrity and security. Cloud environments have numerous methods for meeting these security needs.
In this course, you'll learn how to secure a network in a cloud environment using network segmentation, network protocols, and network services. Next, you'll learn how to monitor the security of a network environment using log and event monitoring and how to harden the network environment. Then, you'll move on to examine the available network security tools that can be used to perform network penetration tests, such as vulnerability scanners and port scanners. You'll also explore how to use these security tools to perform vulnerability assessments. Finally, you'll learn about the purpose of a risk register and how to prioritize the deployment and installation of security patches. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
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Duration: 01:22
Description: Identity and access management is crucial to securing resources and ensuring the resources are used by the correct people. In this course, you'll learn about some of the security resources that are available for performing and enforcing identity and access management.
First, you'll examine identity and access management, including user identification, authorization, and privileged access management. You'll learn how to use the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol to manage access to resources. Next, you'll explore how identity federation can be used to manage user identities and how certificate management can be performed using certificate authorities, registration authorities, certificate databases, certificate stores, and key archival servers. You'll then move on to learn about multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, Public Key Infrastructure, as well as secret and key management. Finally, you'll learn about the components that can be used to perform incident response preparation and incident response procedures such as evidence acquisition, chain of custody, and root cause analysis. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
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Duration: 01:14
Description: Developing new software systems can be costly and time consuming. Cloud-based solutions can help get your system online quickly and cost-effectively and help to meet all your business requirements.
In this course, you'll learn how to analyze the cloud solution design in support of business requirements. First, you'll explore how to analyze the solution design while considering requirements for software, hardware, system integration, security, network, disaster recovery, budgeting, service level agreements, and compliance. Next, you'll learn about the benefits of using multiple environments for development, quality assurance, staging, and production. You'll also examine the advantages of performing blue-green deployments. Finally, you'll learn about software development testing techniques such as performance, regression, functional, usability, vulnerability, and penetration testing. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
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Duration: 01:14
Description: High availability of cloud systems and resources is extremely important to ensure that a system is there when you need it. Cloud environments have many options and features to ensure that the goal of high availability is achieved.
First, you will learn the concepts of affinity and anti-affinity and how it related to hypervisors. Next, you will learn about the benefits of oversubscription of compute, network and storage resources, using regions and zones, cloud applications, and using containers in the cloud environment. Next, you will learn how to configure network resources such as switches, routers, load balancers, and firewalls for high availability. Finally, you will learn about using cloud clusters, identifying single points of failure, and the benefits of using auto-scaling, horizontal scaling, vertical scaling and cloud bursting.
This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
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Duration: 01:14
Description: Capacity planning is an important factor to consider when creating a Cloud Strategy. This course will describe the important factors to consider when performing capacity planning.
First, you will learn about the technical and business factors to consider when performing capacity planning. Next, you will learn about using standard templates, licensing considerations, user density and system load. You then learn how to use captured metrics to perform trend analysis and how to do performance capacity planning. Finally, you’ll learn how to create a cloud-based database and how cloud features can be scaled to meet capacity demands.
This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
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Duration: 01:09
Description: The cloud has various deployment and service models that can help your organization design and create your very own cloud strategy based on needs.
First, you'll learn about the available cloud deployment models such as public, private, hybrid, community, and virtual public clouds, as well as multi-cloud and multitenancy environments. Next, you'll examine cloud service models such as Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Finally, you'll learn about advanced topics such as the Internet of Things, serverless computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the shared responsibility model.
This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
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Duration: 01:11