CCSK Cert Prep: 1 Cloud Architecture
1h 14mAdvanced2021-01-13
Authors
Daniel Lachance
Consultant, Trainer, Author, and Editor at Lachance IT Consulting
Course details
Many types of resources, including virtual machines, databases, and storage, can be deployed in a cloud computing environment. This course teaches you the skills necessary to design and deploy cloud solutions that meet business needs, through cloud-related concepts discussions and hands-on cloud service deployments. This course maps to the first domain in the CSA Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) exam: Cloud Computing Concepts and Architecture. First, instructor Daniel Lachance defines cloud computing as IT services running on a provider equipment over a network. He clarifies several terms and concepts used in cloud computing. Next, Daniel examines the characteristics of cloud computing, including several NIST cloud computing characteristics. He explores a variety of cloud types that can be used for cloud computing delivery, depending on organizational requirements. In conclusion, Daniel makes sure you know how to define and deploy several cloud computing service models.
Skills covered
Student Success SkillsCloud SecurityTraining and EducationNetwork SecurityAmazon Web Services (AWS)AmazonCybersecurityCert PrepCloud Computing
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - About the Cloud Architecture Domain
- 02 - What you should know
1. Cloud Computing Overview
- 03 - Defining the cloud and its benefits
- 04 - Virtualization and the cloud
- 05 - Cloud shared responsibility
- 06 - Cloud service level agreements
2. Cloud Computing Characteristics
- 07 - On-demand self-service
- 08 - Broad network access
- 09 - Resource pooling
- 10 - Rapid elasticity
- 11 - Measured service
- 12 - Deploying reserved instances
3. Cloud Computing Delivery Models
- 13 - Private clouds
- 14 - Public clouds
- 15 - Hybrid clouds
- 16 - Community clouds
4. Cloud Computing Service Models
- 17 - Anything as a Service (XaaS)
- 18 - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- 19 - IaaS deployment
- 20 - Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- 21 - PaaS deployment
- 22 - Software as a Service (SaaS)
- 23 - SaaS deployment
Conclusion
- 24 - Next steps