CompTIA Cloud+

Certification Exam
Objectives
EXAM NUMBER: CV0-003
About the Exam
Candidates are encouraged to use this document to help prepare for the CompTIA
Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification exam. The CompTIA Cloud+ certification exam will
verify the successful candidate has the knowledge and skills required to:
• Understand cloud architecture and design
• Deploy cloud services and solutions
• Successfully maintain, secure, and optimize a cloud environment
• Troubleshoot common issues related to cloud management
This is equivalent to 2—3 years of hands-on experience working in a systems administrator job role.
These content examples are meant to clarify the test objectives and should not be
construed as a comprehensive listing of all the content of this examination.

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TEST DETAILS
Required exam CV0-003
Number of questions Maximum of 90
Types of questions Multiple choice and performance-based
Length of test 90 minutes
Recommended experience • At least 2—3 years of work experience in IT
systems administration or IT networking
• CompTIA Network+ and Server+ or equivalent knowledge
• Familiarity with any major hypervisor
technology for server virtualization
• Knowledge of cloud service models
• Knowledge of IT service management
• Hands-on experience with at least one
public or private cloud IaaS platform

Passing score 750 (on a scale of 100—900)

EXAM OBJECTIVES (DOMAINS)

The table below lists the domains measured by this examination
and the extent to which they are represented:

DOMAIN PERCENTAGE OF EXAMINATION

1.0 Cloud Architecture and Design 13%

2.0 Security 20%
3.0 Deployment 23%
4.0 Operations and Support 22%
5.0 Troubleshooting 22%
Total 100%

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 1.0 Cloud Architecture and Design
1.1 Compare and contrast the different types of cloud models.
• Deployment models • Service models • Shared responsibility model
- Public - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Private - Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Hybrid - Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Community • Advanced cloud services
- Cloud within a cloud - Internet of Things (IoT)
- Multicloud - Serverless
- Multitenancy - Machine learning/
Artificial intelligence (AI)

1.2 Explain the factors that contribute to capacity planning.

• Requirements • User density
- Hardware • System load
- Software • Trend analysis
- Budgetary - Baselines
- Business need analysis - Patterns
• Standard templates - Anomalies
• Licensing • Performance capacity planning
- Per-user
- Socket-based
- Volume-based
- Core-based
- Subscription

1.3 Explain the importance of high availability

and scaling in cloud environments.
• Hypervisors • Applications • Avoid single points of failure
- Affinity • Containers • Scalability
- Anti-affinity • Clusters - Auto-scaling
• Oversubscription • High availability of network functions - Horizontal scaling
- Compute - Switches - Vertical scaling
- Network - Routers - Cloud bursting
- Storage - Load balancers
• Regions and zones - Firewalls

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1.4 Given a scenario, analyze the solution design in support

of the business requirements.
• Requirement analysis • Environments
- Software - Development
- Hardware - Quality assurance (QA)
- Integration - Staging
- Budgetary - Blue-green
- Compliance - Production
- Service-level agreement (SLA) - Disaster recovery (DR)
- User and business needs • Testing techniques
- Security - Vulnerability testing
- Network requirements - Penetration testing
- Sizing - Performance testing
- Subnetting - Regression testing
- Routing - Functional testing
- Usability testing

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 2.0 Security
2.1 Given a scenario, configure identity and access management.
• Identification and authorization • Directory services • Secret management
- Privileged access management - Lightweight directory • Key management
- Logical access management access protocol (LDAP)
- Account life-cycle management • Federation
- Provision and • Certificate management
deprovision accounts • Multifactor authentication (MFA)
- Access controls • Single sign-on (SSO)
- Role-based - Security assertion
- Discretionary markup language (SAML)
- Non-discretionary • Public key infrastructure (PKI)
- Mandatory

2.2 Given a scenario, secure a network in a cloud environment.

• Network segmentation - Tunneling • Log and event monitoring
- Virtual LAN (VLAN)/Virtual - Secure Shell (SSH) • Network flows
extensible LAN (VXLAN)/ - Layer 2 tunneling protocol (L2TP)/ • Hardening and configuration changes
Generic network virtualization Point-to-point - Disabling unnecessary
encapsulation (GENEVE) tunneling protocol (PPTP) ports and services
- Micro-segmentation - Generic routing - Disabling weak protocols and ciphers
- Tiering encapsulation (GRE) - Firmware upgrades
• Protocols • Network services - Control ingress and egress traffic
- Domain name service (DNS) - Firewalls - Allow list (previously
- DNS over HTTPS (DoH)/ - Stateful known as whitelisting) or
DNS over TLS (DoT) - Stateless blocklist (previously known as
- DNS security (DNSSEC) - Web application firewall (WAF) blacklisting)
- Network time protocol (NTP) - Application delivery controller (ADC) - Proxy servers
- Network time security (NTS) - Intrusion protection system (IPS)/ - Distributed denial of
- Encryption Intrusion detection system (IDS) service (DDoS) protection
- IPSec - Data loss prevention (DLP)
- Transport layer security (TLS) - Network access control (NAC)
- Hypertext transfer - Packet brokers
protocol secure (HTTPS)

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2.3 Given a scenario, apply the appropriate OS

and application security controls.
• Policies • Hardened baselines • Encryption
- Password complexity - Single function - Application programming
- Account lockout • File integrity interface (API) endpoint
- Application approved list • Log and event monitoring - Application
(previously known as whitelisting) • Configuration management - OS
- Software feature • Builds - Storage
- User/group - Stable - Filesystem
• User permissions - Long-term support (LTS) • Mandatory access control
• Antivirus/anti-malware/endpoint - Beta • Software firewall
detection and response (EDR) - Canary
• Host-based IDS (HIDS)/ • Operating system (OS) upgrades
Host-based IPS (HIPS)

2.4 Given a scenario, apply data security and compliance

controls in cloud environments.
• Encryption • Segmentation - Retention
• Integrity • Access control - Destruction
- Hashing algorithms • Impact of laws and regulations - Write once read many
- Digital signatures - Legal hold • Data loss prevention (DLP)
- File integrity monitoring (FIM) • Records management • Cloud access security broker (CASB)
• Classification - Versioning

2.5 Given a scenario, implement measures to meet security requirements.

• Tools - Service availabilities • Risk register
- Vulnerability scanners • Security patches • Prioritization of patch application
- Port scanners - Hot fixes • Deactivate default accounts
• Vulnerability assessment - Scheduled updates • Impacts of security tools on
- Default and common credential scans - Virtual patches systems and services
- Credentialed scans - Signature updates • Effects of cloud service models
- Network-based scans - Rollups on security implementation
- Agent-based scans

2.6 Explain the importance of incident response procedures.

• Preparation • Incident response procedures - Chain of custody
- Documentation - Identification - Post-incident and lessons learned
- Call trees - Scope - Root cause analysis
- Training - Investigation
- Tabletops - Containment, eradication,
- Documented incident and recovery
types/categories - Isolation
- Roles and responsibilities - Evidence acquisition

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 3.0 Deployment
3.1 Given a scenario, integrate components into a cloud solution.
• Subscription services • Provisioning resources • Containers
- File subscriptions - Compute - Configure variables
- Communications - Storage - Configure secrets
- Email - Network - Persistent storage
- Voice over IP (VoIP) • Application • Auto-scaling
- Messaging - Serverless • Post-deployment validation
- Collaboration • Deploying virtual machines
- Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) (VMs) and custom images
- Directory and identity services • Templates
- Cloud resources - OS templates
- IaaS - Solution templates
- PaaS • Identity management
- SaaS

3.2 Given a scenario, provision storage in cloud environments.

• Types • Protocols • Storage system features
- Block - Network file system (NFS) - Compression
- Storage area network (SAN) - Common Internet file system (CIFS) - Deduplication
- Zoning - Internet small computer - Thin provisioning
- File system interface (iSCSI) - Thick provisioning
- Network attached storage (NAS) - Fibre Channel (FC) - Replication
- Object - Non-volatile memory express • User quotas
- Tenants over fabrics (NVMe-oF) • Hyperconverged
- Buckets • Redundant array of • Software-defined storage (SDS)
• Tiers inexpensive disks (RAID)
- Flash -0
- Hybrid -1
- Spinning disks -5
- Long-term -6
• Input/output operations per - 10
second (IOPS) and read/write

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3.3 Given a scenario, deploy cloud networking solutions.

• Services • Virtual routing • Single root input/output
- Dynamic host configuration - Dynamic and static routing virtualization (SR-IOV)
protocol (DHCP) - Virtual network interface • Software-defined network (SDN)
- NTP controller (vNIC)
- DNS - Subnetting
- Content delivery network (CDN) • Network appliances
- IP address management (IPAM) - Load balancers
• Virtual private networks (VPNs) - Firewalls
- Site-to-site • Virtual private cloud (VPC)
- Point-to-point - Hub and spoke
- Point-to-site - Peering
- IPSec • VLAN/VXLAN/GENEVE
- Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)

3.4 Given a scenario, configure the appropriate

compute sizing for a deployment.
• Virtualization • Graphics processing unit (GPU)
- Hypervisors - Virtual
- Type 1 - Shared
- Type 2 - Pass-through
- Simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) • Clock speed/Instructions per cycle (IPC)
- Dynamic allocations • Hyperconverged
- Oversubscription • Memory
• Central processing unit (CPU)/ - Dynamic allocation
virtual CPU (vCPU) - Ballooning

3.5 Given a scenario, perform cloud migrations.

• Physical to virtual (P2V) • Storage migrations
• Virtual to virtual (V2V) - Block
• Cloud-to-cloud migrations - File
- Vendor lock-in - Object
- PaaS or SaaS migrations • Database migrations
- Access control lists (ACLs) - Cross-service migrations
- Firewalls - Relational
- Non-relational

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 4.0 Operations and Support
4.1 Given a scenario, configure logging, monitoring,
and alerting to maintain operational status.
• Logging • Monitoring • Alerting
- Collectors - Baselines - Common messaging methods
- Simple network - Thresholds - Enable/disable alerts
management protocol (SNMP) - Tagging - Maintenance mode
- Syslog - Log scrubbing - Appropriate responses
- Analysis - Performance monitoring - Policies for categorizing
- Severity categorization - Application and communicating alerts
- Audits - Infrastructure components
- Types - Resource utilization
- Access/authentication - Availability
- System - SLA-defined uptime requirements
- Application - Verification of continuous
- Automation monitoring activities
- Trending - Service management tool integration

4.2 Given a scenario, maintain efficient operation of a cloud environment.

• Confirm completion of backups - Networking components • Dashboard and reporting
• Life-cycle management - Applications - Tagging
- Roadmaps  - Storage components - Costs
- Old/current/new versions  - Firmware - Chargebacks
- Upgrading and migrating systems - Software - Showbacks
- Deprecations or end of life - OS - Elasticity usage
• Change management - Policies - Connectivity
• Asset management - n-1 - Latency
- Configuration management - Rollbacks - Capacity
database (CMDB) • Impacts of process - Incidents
• Patching improvements on systems - Health
- Features or enhancements • Upgrade methods - Overall utilization
- Fixes for broken or critical - Rolling upgrades - Availability
infrastructure or applications - Blue-green
- Scope of cloud elements to be patched - Canary
- Hypervisors - Active-passive
- VMs - Development/QA/production/DR
- Virtual appliances

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4.3 Given a scenario, optimize cloud environments.

• Right-sizing • Storage - Edge computing
- Auto-scaling - Tiers  - CDN
- Horizontal scaling - Adaptive optimization • Placement
- Vertical scaling - IOPS - Geographical
- Cloud bursting - Capacity - Cluster placement
• Compute - Deduplication - Redundancy
- CPUs - Compression - Colocation
- GPUs • Network • Device drivers and firmware
- Memory - Bandwidth - Generic
- Containers - Network interface controllers (NICs) - Vendor
- Latency - Open source
- SDN

4.4 Given a scenario, apply proper automation

and orchestration techniques.
• Infrastructure as code • Containers • Secure scripting
- Infrastructure components • Automation activities - No hardcoded passwords
and their integration - Routine operations - Use of individual service accounts
• Continuous integration/ - Updates - Password vaults
continuous deployment (CI/CD) - Scaling - Key-based authentication
• Version control - Shutdowns • Orchestration sequencing
• Configuration management - Restarts
- Playbook - Create internal APIs

4.5 Given a scenario, perform appropriate backup and restore operations.

• Backup types • Backup targets - Mean time to recovery (MTTR)
- Incremental - Tape - 3-2-1 rule
- Differential - Disk - Three copies of data
- Full - Object - Two different media
- Synthetic full • Backup and restore policies - One copy off site
- Snapshot - Retention • Restoration methods
• Backup objects - Schedules - In place
- Application-level backup - Location - Alternate location
- Filesystem backup - SLAs - Restore files
- Database dumps - Recovery time objective (RTO) - Snapshot
- Configuration files - Recovery point objective (RPO)

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4.6 Given a scenario, perform disaster recovery tasks.

• Failovers • Documentation
• Failback - DR kit
• Restore backups - Playbook
• Replication - Network diagram
• Network configurations • Geographical datacenter requirements
• On-premises and cloud sites
- Hot
- Warm
- Cold
• Requirements
- RPO
- RTO
- SLA
- Corporate guidelines

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 5.0 Troubleshooting
5.1 Given a scenario, use the troubleshooting
methodology to resolve cloud-related issues.
• Always consider corporate 2. Establish a theory of probable 4. Establish a plan of action to resolve the
policies, procedures, and impacts cause (question the obvious) problem and implement the solution
before implementing changes. - If necessary, conduct external or 5. Verify full system functionality
1. Identify the problem internal research based on symptoms and, if applicable, implement
- Question the user and identify user 3. Test the theory to determine cause preventive measures
changes to the computer and perform - Once the theory is confirmed, 6. Document the findings, actions, and
backups before making changes determine the next steps outcomes throughout the process.
- Inquire regarding environmental to resolve the problem
or infrastructure changes - If the theory is not confirmed,
re-establish a new theory or escalate

5.2 Given a scenario, troubleshoot security issues.

• Privilege • Keys and certificates - Lack of encryption in protocols
- Missing - Expired - Insecure ciphers
- Incomplete - Revoked • Exposed endpoints
- Escalation - Trust • Misconfigured or failed
- Keys - Compromised security appliances
• Authentication - Misconfigured - IPS
• Authorization • Misconfigured or misapplied policies - IDS
• Security groups • Data security issues - NAC
- Network security groups - Unencrypted data - WAF
- Directory security groups - Data breaches • Unsupported protocols
- Misclassification • External/internal attacks

5.3 Given a scenario, troubleshoot deployment issues.

• Connectivity issues • Misconfigured templates • Licensing issues
- Cloud service provider (CSP) or • Missing or incorrect tags • Vendor-related issues
Internet service provider (ISP) outages • Insufficient capacity - Migrations of vendors or platforms
• Performance degradation - Scaling configurations - Integration of vendors or platforms
- Latency - Compute - API request limits
• Configurations - Storage - Cost or billing issues
- Scripts - Bandwidth issues
• Applications in containers - Oversubscription

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5.4 Given a scenario, troubleshoot connectivity issues.

• Network security group - Network address translation (NAT) • Network troubleshooting tools
misconfigurations - VPN - ping
- ACL - Source - tracert/traceroute
- Inheritance - Destination - flushdns
• Common networking - Load balancers - ipconfig/ifconfig/ip
configuration issues - Methods - nslookup/dig
- Peering - Headers - netstat/ss
- Incorrect subnet - Protocols - route
- Incorrect IP address - Encryption - arp
- Incorrect IP space - Back ends - curl
- Routes - Front ends - Packet capture
- Default - DNS records - Packet analyzer
- Static - VLAN/VXLAN/GENEVE - OpenSSL client
- Dynamic - Proxy
- Firewall - Maximum transmission unit (MTU)
- Incorrectly administered - Quality of service (QoS)
micro-segmentation - Time synchronization issues

5.5 Given a scenario, troubleshoot common performance issues.

• Resource utilization - Network latency
- CPU - Replication
- GPU - Scaling
- Memory • Application
- Storage - Memory management
- I/O - Service overload
- Capacity • Incorrectly configured or
- Network bandwidth failed load balancing

5.6 Given a scenario, troubleshoot automation or orchestration issues.

• Account mismatches • Automation tool incompatibility
• Change management failures - Deprecated features
• Server name changes - API version incompatibility
• IP address changes • Job validation issue
• Location changes • Patching failure
• Version/feature mismatch

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Cloud+ (CV0-003) Acronym List

The following is a list of acronyms that appear on the CompTIA Cloud+ exam.
Candidates are encouraged to review the complete list and attain a working
knowledge of all listed acronyms as part of a comprehensive exam preparation.

ACRONYM DEFINITION ACRONYM DEFINITION

AAA Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting DFS Distributed File System
AAAA Authentication, Authorization, DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Accounting, and Auditing DLP Data Loss Prevention
ACL Access Control List DMZ (Replacement term: perimeter network)
ADC Application Delivery Controller DNS Domain Name Service
AES Advanced Encryption Standard DNSSEC DNS Security
AI Artificial Intelligence DoH DNS over HTTPS
API Application Programming Interface DoT DNS over TLS
ARP Address Resolution Protocol DR Disaster Recovery
BCP Business Continuity Plan DRP Disaster Recovery Plan
BGP Border Gateway Protocol DSA Distributed Services Architecture
BIA Business Impact Analysis EDR Endpoint Detection and Response
CA Certificate Authority ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
CAB Change Advisory Board FC Fibre Channel
CAS Content Addressed Storage FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet
CASB Cloud Access Security Broker FIM File Integrity Monitoring
CD Continuous Deployment FTP File Transfer Protocol
CDN Content Delivery Network FTPS FTP over SSL
CI Continuous Integration GENEVE Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing GPT GUID Partition Table
CIFS Common Internet File System GPU Graphics Processing Unit
CIIS Client Integration Implementation Service GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation
CMDB Configuration Management Database GUI Graphical User Interface
CMS Content Management System HA High Availability
CNA Converged Network Adapter HBA Host Bus Adapter
COL Co-Location HIDS Host-Based IDS
COOP Continuity of Operations Plan HIPS Host-Based IPS
CPU Central Processing Unit HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
CRL Certificate Revocation List I/O Input/Output
CRM Customer Relationship Management IaaS Infrastructure as a Service
DAC Discretionary Access Control IaC Infrastructure as Code
DAS Direct Attached Storage IAM Identity and Access Management
DBaaS Database as a Service ICMP Internet Control Management Protocol
DBMS Database Management Server IDS Intrusion Detection System
DDoS Distributed Denial of Service IFCP Internet Fibre Channel Protocol

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IGRP Interior Gateway Routing Protocol NVGRE Network Virtualization
IOPS Input/Output Operations Per Second using Generic Routing Encapsulation
IoT Internet of Things NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express
IP Internet Protocol NVMe-oF NVMe over Fabrics
IPAM IP Address Management ODBC Open Database Connectivity
IPC Instructions Per Cycle OLA Operational Level Agreement
IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface OS Operating System
IPS Intrusion Prevention System OSPF Open Shortest Path First
IPSec IP Security P2P Physical to Physical
IQN iSCSI Qualified Name P2V Physical to Virtual
iSCSI Internet Small Computer System Interface PaaS Platform as a Service
ISNS Internet Storage Name Service PAM Privileged Access Management
ISP Internet Service Provider PAT Port Address Translation
JBOD Just a Bunch Of Disks PBX Private (or Public) Branch Exchange
KVM Kernel Virtual Machine PIT Point-in-Time (backup or snapshot)
KVM Keyboard Video Mouse PKI Public Key Infrastructure
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol PPTP Point-to-point Tunneling Protocol
LAN Local Area Network QA Quality Assurance
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol QoS Quality of Service
LTS Long-Term Support RAID Redundant Array of
LUN Logical Unit Number Independent/Inexpensive Disks
MAC Mandatory Access Control RAM Random Access Memory
MBR Master Boot Record RBAC Role-Based Access Control
MDF Main Distribution Facility RDP Remote Desktop Protocol
MFA Multi-Factor Authentication ReFS Resilient File System
ML Machine Learning REST Representational State Transfer
MPIO MultiPath I/O RPO Recovery Point Objective
MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching RTO Recovery Time Objectives
MSP Managed Service Provider SaaS Software as a Service
MTBF Mean Time Between Failure SAML Security Assertion Markup Language
MTTF Mean Time To Failure SAN Storage Area Network
MTTR Mean Time To Repair SAS Serial Attached SCSI
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
NAC Network Access Control SCP Session Control Protocol
NAS Network Attached Storage SCSI Small Computer System Interface
NAT Network Address Translation SDLC Software Development Life Cycle
NFS Network File System SDN Software-Defined Network
NIC Network Interface Controller SDS Software-Defined Storage
NIDS Network Intrusion Detection System SFTP Secure FTP
NIPS Network-based Intrusion Prevention System SHA Secure Hash Algorithm
NIS Network Information Service SIEM Security Information and Event Management
NOC Network Operations Center SIP Session Initiation Protocol
NPIV N_Port ID Virtualization SLA Service Level Agreement
NS Name Server SMB Server Message Block
NTFS New Technology File System SMT Simultaneous Multi-Threading
NTP Network Time Protocol SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
NTS Network Time Security SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol

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ACRONYM DEFINITION ACRONYM DEFINITION
SOA Start of Authority VDI Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol vGPU Virtual Graphics Processing Unit
SPF Sender Protection Framework VHD Virtual Hard Disk
SQL Structured Query Language VLAN Virtual LAN
SR-IOV Single-Root Input/ Output Virtualization VM Virtual Machine
SSD Solid State Disk VMFS Virtual Machine File System
SSH Secure Shell VNC Virtual Network Computing
SSL Secure Sockets Layer vNIC Virtual NIC
SSO Single Sign-On VoIP Voice over IP
STT Stateless Transport Tunneling VPC Virtual Private Cloud
TCO Total Cost of Operations VPN Virtual Private Network
TCP Transmission Control Protocol vRAM Virtual RAM
TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol vSAN Virtual SAN
TLS Transport Layer Security vSwitch Virtual Switch
TPM Trusted Platform Module VTL Virtual Tape Library
TTL Time to Live VXLAN Virtual extensible LAN
UAT User Acceptance Testing WAF Web Application Firewall
UDP Universal Datagram Protocol WAN Wide Area Network
UPS Universal Power Supply WMI Windows Management Implementation
URL Uniform Resource Locator WWNN World Wide Node Name
V2P Virtual to Physical WWPN World Wide Port Name
V2V Virtual to Virtual XaaS anything as a Service
vADC Virtual ADC YAML Yet Another Markup Language
VAT Virtual Allocation Table ZFS Z File System
vCPU Virtual CPU

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Cloud+ Proposed Hardware and Software List

CompTIA has included this sample list of hardware and software to assist
candidates as they prepare for the Cloud+ exam. This list may also be helpful for
training companies that wish to create a lab component to their training offering.
The bulleted lists below each topic are sample lists and are not exhaustive.

HARDWARE SOFTWARE OTHER

• Computer capable of • Automation tools • Internet access
running virtualization • Hypervisor (Type 1, Type 2) • Access to SaaS, PaaS, or
• Network switch** • Client (and server) OS IaaS environments
• Network router** • Various web browsers • Remote access to cloud service
• Compute (CPU, RAM, etc.)** • CLI** providers (trial or free service)
• NAS or SAN** • Virtualization format converter**
• Cables**

**Ideal, but not necessary for lab setup

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