Cloud Technology Associate (CTA) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Introduction to the Cloud Business Model

• Review Traditional Computing Challenges and Concerns
• Cloud Computing Concept, History, and Definitions
• Cloud Computing Benefits and Challenges, Best and Least Suited Application Profiles and APIs
• Cloud Reference Architecture and Common Terminologies

Introduction to Virtualization - the Backbone Technology of Cloud Computing

• Virtualization: Definition, Concepts, History, and Relationship to Cloud Computing
• Virtualization: Benefits, Challenges, Risks, and Suitability to Organizations
• Hypervisor: Role and Purpose in Virtualization and the Various Hypervisor Types
• Virtualization: Terminologies and the different Types of Virtualization

Overview of Cloud Technologies and Applications

• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and MDM + EMM
• Software Defined Networking (SDN)
• Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
• Big Data, Analytics, NoSQL, NewSQL, HTML5

Cloud Security, Risk and Governance

• Risk and Governance Definitions
• Impact of Cloud Essential Characteristics
• Impact of Cloud Service Models
• Impact of Cloud Deployment Models
• Risk Management and Governance

Preparing for Cloud Adoption

• Cloud Strategy and Roadmap Preparation
• Solution Architectures: For Various Services, Deployment Models, and Organizational Capabilities
• Cloud Service Provider, SLA, and Cloud Migration
• Cloud Governance and Risk

Cloud Service Management

• Cloud Service Management (CSM) Overview: Definition, Architecture, Lifecycle, Actors
• CSM: Business Support
• CSM: Provisioning/Configuration
• CSM: Portability/Interoperability

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