The Cloud Provisioning and Administration course enables Network, Systems, and Database Administrators to effectively operate in the cloud. The training covers best practices on cloud administration. It is supported by major vendor technology solutions and covers Open Source, as well as global vendor standards. This is a professional level course and relevant to professionals with at least 2-5 years of experience as an Administrator. The course prepares candidates for the Professional Cloud Administrator (PCA) Certification from CCC.
 

Students certified at this level will have a demonstrated understanding of:

• Types of Cloud Environments: Cloud environment controls, hosting, ITO Outsourcing, CoLoc, Onshore, offshore versus cloud.
• Planning for cloud capacity: Policy management and third party management.
• Cloud Administration technology: Virtual networks, storage and computing, application management in the cloud.
• Security administration, compliance and certification.
• Cloud Provisioning: Capacity Management, Service Desk Management, cloud provisioning/ automation management.

Day 1

• Course Introduction
• Cloud Resource Administration and Provisioning
• Cloud Scalability and Elasticity Administration

Day 2

• Cloud Interoperability and Portability
• Strategic Policy Design for Cloud Usage and Compliance
• Business Continuity Strategies and Disaster Recovery for Cloud

Day 3

• Cloud Security Fundamentals
• Federated Controls and Strategies for Multiple Cloud and Non-cloud Administration
• Performance Measures, Monitoring, and Optimization in Production

(Primary Audience)

• Network Administrators
• Systems Administrators

(Database Administrator Secondary Audience)

• Service Desk Managers
• Senior Operators

No certification available.

There are no formal prerequisites. However, it is recommended that students hold the Cloud Technology Associate Certification (or its equivalent) from CCC and/or that participants are conversant with cloud concepts and vocabulary.