Description
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
A Certified Cloud Storage Specialist has obtained an in-depth level of proficiency with the mechanisms, devices, technologies, practices and overall assessment criteria pertaining to cloud storage technologies and services. Depending on the exam format chosen, attaining the Cloud Storage Specialist Certification can require passing a single exam or multiple exams. Those who achieve this certification receive an official digital Certificate of Excellence, as well as a digital Certification Badge from Acclaim/Credly with an account that supports the online verification of certification status.
MODULE OVERVIEW
The Cloud Governance Specialist certification track is associated with the following courses and the courses can be delivered via instructor-led training.
CCP Module 1: Fundamental Cloud Computing
This foundational course provides end-to-end coverage of fundamental cloud computing topics as they pertain to both technology and business considerations. The course content is divided into a series of modular sections, each of which is accompanied by one or more hands-on exercises.
The following primary topics are covered:
– Fundamental Cloud Computing Terminology and Concepts
– Basics of Virtualization
– Specific Characteristics that Define a Cloud
– Understanding Elasticity, Resiliency, On-Demand and Measured Usage
– Benefits, Challenges and Risks of Contemporary Cloud Computing Platforms and Cloud Services
– Cloud Resource Administrator and Cloud Service Owner Roles
– Cloud Service and Cloud Service Consumer Roles
– Understanding the Software as a Service (SaaS) Cloud Delivery Model
– Understanding the Platform as a Service (PaaS) Cloud Delivery Model
– Understanding the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud Delivery Model
– Combining Cloud Delivery Models
– Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud and Community Cloud Deployment Models
– Business Cost Metrics and Formulas for Comparing and Calculating Cloud and On-Premise Solution Costs
– Formulas for Calculating and Rating SLA Quality of Service Characteristics
CCP Module 2: Cloud Technology Concepts
This course explores a range of the most important and relevant technology-related topics that pertain to contemporary cloud computing platforms. The course content does not get into implementation or programming details, but instead keeps coverage at a conceptual level, focusing on topics that address cloud service architecture, cloud security threats and technologies, virtualization and containerization.
Proven technologies are defined and classified as concrete architectural building blocks called “mechanisms”. The purpose of this course is to introduce cloud computing-related technology topics in a manner that is accessible to a wide range of IT professionals, as well as to empower participants with an understanding of the fundamental mechanics of a cloud platform, how the different “moving parts” can be combined, and how to address common threats and pitfalls.
The following primary topics are covered:
– Cloud Computing Mechanisms that Establish Architectural Building Blocks
– Virtual Servers, Containers, Ready-Made Environments, Failover Systems & Pay-Per-Use Monitors
– Automated Scaling Listeners, Multi-Device Brokers & Resource Replication
– Understanding How Individual Cloud Computing Mechanisms Support Cloud Characteristics
– An Introduction to Containerization, Container Hosting & Logical Pod Containers
– A Comparison of Containerization and Virtualization
– Cloud Balancing and Cloud Bursting Architectures
– Common Risks, Threats and Vulnerabilities of Cloud-based Services & Cloud-hosted Solutions
– Cloud Security Mechanisms used to Counter Threats and Attacks
– Understanding Cloud-Based Security Groups and Hardened Virtual Server Images
– Cloud Service Implementation Mediums (including Web Services and REST Services)
– Cloud Storage Benefits and Challenges, Cloud Storage Services, Technologies and Approaches
– Non-Relational (NoSQL) Storage Compared to Relational Storage
– Cloud Service Testing Considerations and Testing Types
– Service Grids and Autonomic Computing
– Cloud Computing Industry Standards Organizations
CCP Module 3: Fundamental Cloud Storage
This course expands upon the cloud storage topics introduced in Module 2 by further exploring cloud storage devices, structures, and technologies from a more technical and implementation-specific perspective. A set of cloud storage mechanisms and devices are established, along with in-depth coverage of NoSQL and cloud storage services.
The following primary topics are covered:
– Fundamental Storage and Disk Concepts
– IOPS, Disk Throughput, Access Time, Seek Time and Relational Latency
– File Systems and Volume Management
– Distributed/Clustered File Systems, Concatenation and Partitioning
– RAIDs (Descriptions, Comparison, Penalties)
– I/O & Capacity
– Concatenation, Vertical Tiering and Disk Splitting
– Types of Storage (Data Processing, Local, Directly Attached, Remote)
– Storage Levels (Block, File, Object)
– Basic Storage Infrastructure Components
– I/O Flow, NICs and Storage Switches
– Backup Fundamentals
– Snapshots, Disaster Recovery/Protection, Recovery Time
CCP Module 4: Advanced Cloud Storage
A number of advanced topics are introduced in this course, including persistent storage, redundant storage, cloud-attached storage, cloud-remote storage, cloud storage gateways, cloud storage brokers, Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Network (SAN), various cloud storage-related design patterns, and the overall information lifecycle management as it applies specifically to cloud-hosted data.
The following primary topics are covered:
– Cloud Consumer Storage Access Types
– HBA Replication
– IP and Non-IP Storage
– Fibre Channel Storage and Fibre Channel over Ethernet
– Front and Back-end Storage Device Components
– Storage Network Components
– HBAs FC, iSCSI and FCoE) and Software Storage Adapters
– LUN Presenting and LUN Expansion (Striped and Concatenated)
– LUN, Device and Path Masking
– Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (FC SAN) Components
– FCoE and Converged Infrastructure (including FC Point-to-Point, Arbitrated Loop, Switched Fabric)
– Lossless Ethernet, Congestion Notification, Enhanced Transmission Selection
– IP SAN, FCIP and IP Storage Isolation
CCP Module 5: Cloud Storage Lab
This course module presents participants with a series of exercises and problems that are designed to test their ability to apply their knowledge of topics covered previously in course modules 13 and 14. Completing this lab will help highlight areas that require further attention and will further prove hands-on proficiency in cloud computing storage technologies, mechanisms, devices and patterns as they are applied and combined to solve real-world problems.
As a hands-on lab, this course provides a set of detailed exercises that require participants to solve a number of inter-related problems, with the ultimate goal of evaluating, designing and correcting cloud storage technology architectures to fulfill specific sets of solution and business automation requirements.
For instructor-led delivery of this lab course, the Certified Cloud Trainer works closely with participants to ensure that all exercises are carried out completely and accurately. Attendees can voluntarily have exercises reviewed and graded as part of the class completion.
For individual completion of this course as part of the Module 15 Study Kit, a number of supplements are provided to help participants carry out exercises with guidance and resource references.
Duration: 5 days
PREREQUISITES
- There are no formal prerequisites for the certification exam
EXAM & CERTIFICATION
You can take exams anywhere in the world via Pearson VUE testing centers, Pearson VUE online proctoring and Arcitura on-site exam proctoring at your location.
You are provided with three flexible exam format options:
Complete Exam C90.CST, a single combined exam for the entire Cloud Storage Specialist certification track. Recommended for those who want to only take a single exam that encompasses all course modules within this track.
Complete the partial version of Exam C90.CST. Recommended for those who have already obtained a CCP certification and would like to achieve the Cloud Storage Specialist Certification without having to be retested on CCP Modules 1 and 2.
Complete one module-specific exam for each course module in Cloud Storage Specialist Certification track. This is recommended for those who want to progress gradually through the track and who would like to be assessed after each course module before proceeding to the next.
