# Cloud Administration/Deployment

Deployment

## Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the deployment portion of CompTIA Cloud+ certification include:
1.2 Given a scenario, execute a provided deployment plan.
* Apply the Change Management Process
** Approvals
** Scheduling
* Refer to documentation and follow standard operating procedures
* Execute workflow
* Configure automation and orchestration, where appropriate, for the system being deployed
* Use commands and tools as needed
* Document results
1.5 Given a scenario, analyze sizing, subnetting, and basic routing for a provided deployment of the virtual network.
* Cloud deployment models
** Public
** Private
** Hybrid
** Community
* Network components
* Applicable port and protocol considerations when extending to the cloud
* Determine configuration for the applicable platform as it applies to the network
** VPN
** IDS/IPS
** DMZ
** VXLAN
** Address space required
** Network segmentation and micro-segmentation
* Determine if cloud resources are consistent with the SLA and/or change management requirements
1.6 Given a scenario, analyze CPU and memory sizing for a provided deployment.
* Available vs. proposed resources
** CPU
** RAM
* Memory technologies
** Bursting and ballooning
** Overcommitment ratio
* CPU technologies
** Hyperthreading
** VT-x
** Overcommitment ratio
* Effect to HA/DR
* Performance considerations
* Cost considerations
* Energy savings
* Dedicated compute environment vs. shared compute environment
1.7 Given a scenario, analyze the appropriate storage type and protection capability for a provided deployment.
* Requested IOPS and read/write throughput
* Protection capabilities
** High availability
*** Failover zones
** Storage replication
*** Regional
*** Multiregional
*** Synchronous and asynchronous
** Storage mirroring
** Cloning
** Redundancy level/factor
* Storage types
** NAS
** DAS
** SAN
** Object storage
* Access protocols
* Management differences
* Provisioning model
** Thick provisioned
** Thin provisioned
** Encryption requirements
** Tokenization
* Storage technologies
** Deduplication technologies
** Compression technologies
* Storage tiers
* Overcommitting storage
* Security configurations for applicable platforms
** ACLs
** Obfuscation
** Zoning
** User/host authentication and authorization
1.8 Given a scenario, analyze characteristics of the workload (storage, network, compute) to ensure a successful migration.
* Migration types
** P2V
** V2V
** V2P
** P2P
** Storage migrations
** Online vs. offline migrations
* Source and destination format of the workload
** Virtualization format
** Application and data portability
* Network connections and data transfer methodologies
* Standard operating procedures for the workload migration
* Environmental constraints
** Bandwidth
** Working hour restrictions
** Downtime impact
** Peak timeframes
** Legal restrictions
** Follow-the-sun constraints/time zones
1.9 Given a scenario, apply elements required to extend the infrastructure into a given cloud solution.
* Identity management elements
** Identification
** Authentication
** Authorization
*** Approvals
*** Access policy
** Federation
*** Single sign-on
* Appropriate protocols given requirements
* Element considerations to deploy infrastructure services such as:
** DNS
** DHCP
** Certificate services
** Local agents
** Antivirus
** Load balancer
** Multifactor authentication
** Firewall
** IPS/IDS