This course delves into the foundational elements of cloud architecture, providing a robust framework for understanding the intricacies of cloud environments. Through engaging lessons, you'll explore various cloud deployment and service models, gain insights into the shared responsibility model, and understand the nuances of licensing in a cloud context. Our course also covers high availability architectures, teaching you how to leverage geographically disparate data centers and implement effective failover and failback strategies. You'll learn to identify and mitigate single points of failure while mastering both horizontal and vertical scaling techniques. Additionally, the course emphasizes the principles of solution design, guiding you through requirements analysis, environment deployment, and testing techniques.
CompTIA Cloud CV0-003: Unit 2
This course is part of CompTIA Cloud CV0 003 Specialization
Instructor: Pearson
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What you'll learn
Understand cloud deployment and service models, and the shared responsibility model.
Master high availability strategies, including failover, failback, and scaling techniques.
Develop skills in solution design, from requirements analysis to testing.
Learn to identify and mitigate single points of failure in cloud architectures.
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In this course, we have three lessons covering the first exam question domain, cloud architecture and design. This module will introduce the basics of cloud architecture that forms the foundation for all other lessons. The lessons covered are lesson three, cloud models and capacity planning; lesson four, high availability; and lesson five, solution design.
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