Cloud Computing - Foundation Certification

• Course Overview
• Course Content
• Customer Reviews

Course Overview

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Cloud Computing Certification is reshaping the IT marketplace and is becoming the next industry buzz word. The Cloud is changing not just the technology landscape but also the entire nature of the business models that underpin successful 21st century companies. This disruptive technology, with massive growth forecasts expected in the short term around the world, has a great deal to offer: achieving higher scale at lower costs or eliminating data centre capital in favor of a "pay-as-you-go" model are some of those great entrepreneurial opportunities that can be seized. Cloud Computing Certification is revolutionizing all aspects of IT, including hardware, operating systems and applications. Faced with a rapidly changing business environment, organizations are under pressure to respond with a flexible IT infrastructure and applications. In this course, you gain the key knowledge and experience required to leverage both the business and technical benefits of Cloud Computing Certification.

Course Content

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The principles of Cloud computing

• Understand the concept of Cloud computing
  • What is Cloud computing
  • What is virtualization
  • The main types of Cloud computing
• Know the evolution of Cloud computing
  • The main concepts from which Cloud computing developed
  • The role of network and servers in Cloud computing
  • The role of the Internet in Cloud computing
  • The role of Virtualization in Cloud computing
  • The role of managed services in Cloud computing
• Understand the Cloud computing architectures
  • The Service Oriented Architecture
  • The Tiered, Multipurpose and the Datacenter architecture
• Benefits and limitations of Cloud computing
  • Identify the main benefits of Cloud computing
  • Identify the main limitations of Cloud computing

Using the Cloud

• Know how users can access the Cloud
  • How to access Web Applications through a Web Browser
  • The Cloud Web Access Architecture
• The use of a Thin Client
• The use of mobile devices to access the Cloud
  • The basic platforms available for mobile operating devices
  • The role of standard applications in collaboration
  • The main benefits and limitations of mobile access to the Cloud

Security and Identity Management

• Understand the security risks of Cloud computing and knows mitigating measures
  • The essential elements of security in the cloud (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability)
  • The standard measures for authorized use (Authentication, Authorization and Accountability)
  • The main security risks for the three types of virtualized environments
• Understand identity management in the Cloud
  • The use of Federation
  • The use of presence data
  • The main aspects of Identity management
• Describe privacy and compliance issues and safeguards in Cloud computing

Implementing and Managing Cloud computing

• Understand the building of Local Cloud Networks
  • The benefits and cost elements of a local cloud environment
  • The main components of a local cloud environment and how they are interconnected
  • The risks of connecting a local cloud network to the public internet
• Understand supporting the use of Cloud computing
  • The use of Virtual Private Network access to a Local Area Network
  • The use of scripting and content-formatting languages and provide examples of such languages
  • Approaches for back-up and recovery in an environment using Cloud computing
• The candidate knows the main standards and protocols in Cloud computing
  • The main objectives and benefits of using standards in Cloud computing
  • The role of international and industrial standard organizations
  • WBEM, DMFT, SMI-S, SMASH, HTTP
  • The use of security protocols (IPSec, OpenID)

Evaluation of Cloud computing

• Understand the business case for Cloud computing
  • The costs and possible savings of Cloud computing
  • The main operational and staffing benefits of Cloud computing
  • The evaluation of service providers and their services in Cloud computing

Customer Reviews

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