CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-004 Lessons

Every lesson is free to read, with three practice questions each. Work through them in order, or jump to the objective you need.

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  1. A cloud lab that will not bill you, and the habits that keep it that wayAudio
  2. Service and deployment models: the two axes people keep confusingObjective 1.1Audio
  3. Multi-cloud, lock-in, and making the case to the businessObjective 1.1Audio
  4. Virtualization: hypervisors, machine types and what the cloud is built onObjective 1.2Audio
  5. Allocation, oversubscription and the noisy neighbourObjective 1.2Audio
  6. Virtual networks, subnets and routing inside a cloudObjective 1.3Audio
  7. Connecting to the cloud: VPNs, peering and private linksObjective 1.3Audio
  8. Containers and images, and why a container is not a small VMObjective 1.4Audio
  9. Orchestration: scheduling, self-healing and desired stateObjective 1.5Audio
  10. Cloud database fundamentals: relational, non-relational and managedObjective 1.6Audio
  11. Right-sizing, autoscaling and getting performance per poundObjective 1.7Audio
  12. Reading a cloud bill, and controlling it before it arrivesObjective 1.8Audio
  13. Sizing a workload before you move itObjective 2.1Audio
  14. Compatibility, dependencies and the things that do not moveObjective 2.1Audio
  15. Infrastructure as code: declarative and imperativeObjective 2.2Audio
  16. Templates, modules and infrastructure you can reuseObjective 2.2Audio
  17. State, drift, and why the console is the enemy of IaCObjective 2.2Audio
  18. Migration strategies: rehost, replatform, refactor, and the two that are not movesObjective 2.3Audio
  19. Executing a migration: replication, cutover and rollbackObjective 2.3Audio
  20. Provisioning compute and storageObjective 2.4Audio
  21. Provisioning networking and identity, and the order that mattersObjective 2.4Audio
  22. Scaling horizontally and vertically, and knowing which you needObjective 3.1Audio
  23. Patching and updating without taking the service downObjective 3.1Audio
  24. Decommissioning, and the cost of what you forgotObjective 3.1Audio
  25. Backup types, schedules and retentionObjective 3.2Audio
  26. Restore testing: the only proof a backup worksObjective 3.2Audio
  27. Disaster recovery: RPO, RTO and the site you fail over toObjective 3.2Audio
  28. Metrics, logs and traces: the three signalsObjective 3.3Audio
  29. Alerting that someone will actually answerObjective 3.3Audio
  30. Scanning cloud assets for vulnerabilitiesObjective 4.1Audio
  31. Prioritising and remediating what the scan foundObjective 4.1Audio
  32. Identities, roles and least privilegeObjective 4.2Audio
  33. Federation, single sign-on and multifactor authenticationObjective 4.2Audio
  34. Container image security and the registryObjective 4.3Audio
  35. Runtime container security and isolationObjective 4.3Audio
  36. Compliance standards, and what an auditor actually asks forObjective 4.4Audio
  37. Encryption, key management and protecting dataObjective 4.5Audio
  38. Network and host controls in the cloudObjective 4.5Audio
  39. Automation that removes the manual stepObjective 5.1Audio
  40. Source control for infrastructure and configurationObjective 5.2Audio
  41. Building a CI/CD pipelineObjective 5.3Audio
  42. System integration: APIs, webhooks and message queuesObjective 5.4Audio
  43. The DevOps toolchain: what each tool is forObjective 5.5Audio
  44. Event-driven architecture and serverlessObjective 5.6Audio
  45. Troubleshooting a deployment that will not deployObjective 6.1Audio
  46. A method for cloud connectivity faultsObjective 6.2Audio
  47. Latency, throughput and routing problemsObjective 6.2Audio
  48. Responding to leaked credentials and privilege escalationObjective 6.3Audio
  49. When DNS, DHCP or NTP breaks the cloudObjective 6.4Audio
  50. Finding and fixing misconfigurationsObjective 6.5Audio