CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-004) Practice Exam
CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-004) Practice Exam
About CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-004) Practice Exam
The CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-004) certification exam has been designed for candidates to assess the knowledge and skills required to -
- Learn about cloud architecture and design concepts.
- Understanding how to implement and maintain a secure cloud environment.
- Learn to provision and configure cloud resources.
- Explain the ability to manage operations throughout the cloud environment life cycle using observability, scaling, and automation.
- Learn about fundamental DevOps concepts related to deployment and integration.
- Understand about troubleshooting common issues related to cloud management.
Exam Details
- Exam Code: CV0-004
- Number of questions: 90 minutes
- Types of questions: Multiple-choice and performance-based
- Recommended experience: 2–3 years of hands-on experience as a systems administrator or cloud engineer
- Passing Score: 750 (on a scale of 100-900)
Course Outline
The CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-004) Exam covers the following topics -
Domain 1 - Understanding Cloud Architecture
1.1 Ability to use the appropriate cloud service model.
- Learn about Cloud service models
- Learn about Shared responsibility model
1.2 Describe concepts related to service availability.
- Learn about Resource availability
- Learn about Disaster recovery (DR)
- Learn about Multicloud tenancy
1.3 Describe cloud networking concepts.
- Learn about Public and private connections to the cloud
- Learn about Network functions, components, and services
1.4 Explain to compare and contrast storage resources and technologies
- Learn about Tiered storage
- Learn about Disk types
- Learn about Storage types
- Learn about Performance implications
- Learn about Cost implications
1.5 Describe the purpose of cloud-native design concepts.
- Learn about Cloud-provided managed services
- Learn about Microservices
- Learn about Loosely coupled architecture
- Learn about Fan-out
- Learn about Service discovery
1.6 Learn to compare and contrast containerization concepts.
- Learn about Stand-alone
- Learn about Workload orchestration
- Learn about Networking
- Learn about Storage types
- Learn about Image registries
1.7 Learn to compare and contrast virtualization concepts.
- Learn about Stand-alone
- Learn about Clustering
- Learn about Cloning
- Learn about Host affinity
- Learn about Hardware pass-through
- Learn about Network types
- Learn about Overlay networks
- Learn about Storage
1.8 Overview of cost considerations related to cloud usage.
- Learn about Billing models
- Learn about Resource metering
1.9 Overview of the importance of database concepts
- Learn about Tagging
- Learn about Rightsizing
1.10 Learn to compare and contrast methods for optimizing workloads using cloud resources.
- Learn about Compute resources
- Learn about Orchestration
- Learn about Workflow
- Learn about Network
- Learn about Storage
- Learn about Managed services
1.11 Ability to identify evolving technologies in the cloud
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)
- Internet of Things (IoT)
Domain 2 - Understanding Deployment
2.1 Ability to compare and contrast cloud deployment models.
- Learn about Public
- Learn about Private
- Learn about Hybrid
- Learn about Community
2.2 Ability to implement appropriate deployment strategies.
- Learn about Blue-green
- Learn about Canary
- Learn about Rolling
- Learn about In-place
2.3 Ability to summarize aspects of cloud migration.
- Learn about Migration types
- Learn about Resource allocation
- Learn about Considerations
- Learn about Application migration strategies
2.4 Ability to use code to deploy and configure cloud resources.
- Learn about Infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Learn about Configuration as code (CaC)
- Learn about Scripting logic
- Learn about Repeatability
- Learn about Drift detection
- Learn about Versioning
- Learn about Testing
- Learn about Documentation
- Learn about Formats
2.5 Ability to provision the appropriate cloud resources.
- Learn about Storage requirements
- Learn about Performance requirements
- Learn about Security requirements
- Learn about Cost requirements
- Learn about Availability requirements
- Learn about Compliance requirements
- Learn about Network requirements
- Learn about Compute requirements
Domain 3 - Understanding Operations
3.1 Ability to configure appropriate resources to achieve observability.
- Learn about Logging
- Learn about Tracing
- Learn about Monitoring
- Learn about Alerting
3.2 Ability to configure appropriate scaling approaches.
- Learn about Approaches
- Learn about Types
3.3 Ability to use appropriate backup and recovery methods.
- Learn about Backup types
- Learn about Backup locations
- Learn about Schedule
- Learn about Retention
- Learn about Replication
- Learn about Encryption
- Learn about Testing
- Learn about Recovery types
- Learn about Recovery options
3.4 Ability to manage the life cycle of cloud resources.
- Learn about Patches
- Learn about Updates
- Learn about Testing
- Learn about Data
- Learn about Decommissioning
Domain 4 - Understand Security
4.1 Describe vulnerability management concepts.
- Learn about Steps
- Learn about Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)
4.2 Ability to compare and contrast aspects of compliance and regulation.
- Learn about Data sovereignty
- Learn about Data ownership
- Learn about Data locality
- Learn about Data classification
- Learn about Data retention
- Learn about Industry standards
4.3 Ability to implement identity and access management.
- Learn about Secure access to the cloud management environment
- Learn about Secure access to the cloud resources
- Learn about Authentication models
- Learn about Authorization models
- Learn about Accounting
4.4 Ability to apply security best practices.
- Learn about Zero Trust
- Learn about Benchmark
- Learn about Hardening
- Learn about Patching
- Learn about Encryption
- Learn about Secrets management
- Learn about API security
- Learn about Principle of least privilege
- Learn about Container security
- Learn about Storage security
4.5 Ability to apply security controls in the cloud
- Learn about Endpoint protection
- Learn about Data loss prevention (DLP)
- Learn about Intrusion prevention system/intrusion detection system (IPS/IDS)
- Learn about Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection
- Learn to Identity and access management (IAM) policies
- Learn about Firewall
4.6 Ability to monitor suspicious activities to identify common attacks.
- Learn about Event monitoring
- Learn about Deviation from the baseline
- Learn about Unnecessary open ports
- Learn about Attack types
Domain 5 - Understanding DevOps Fundamentals
5.1 Ability to source control concepts.
- Learn about Version management
- Learn about Code review
- Learn about Pull request
- Learn about Code push
- Learn about Code commit
- Learn about Code merge
- Learn about Branch management
5.2 Describe continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Learn about Automation
- Learn about Code integration
- Learn about Code deployment
- Learn about Testing
- Learn about Security
- Learn about Workflow
- Learn about Artifacts
- Learn about Repositories
5.3 Describe concepts related to integration of systems.
- Learn about Event-driven architectures
- Learn about Web services
- Learn about Web sockets
- Learn about GraphQL
5.4 Learn the importance of tools used in DevOps environments.
- Learn about Ansible
- Learn about Docker
- Learn about Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) stack
- Learn about Git
- Learn about GitHub actions
- Learn about Grafana
- Learn about Jenkins
- Learn about Kubernetes
- Learn about Terraform
Domain 6 - Understanding Troubleshooting
6.1 Ability to troubleshoot deployment issues.
- Learn about Incompatibility
- Learn about Misconfigurations
- Learn about Outdated component definitions
- Learn about Deprecation of functionality
- Learn about Outages
- Learn about Resource limits
- Learn about Regional service availability
6.2 Ability to troubleshoot network issues.
- Learn about Network service unavailability
- Learn about Latency
- Learn about Bandwidth/throughput issues
- Learn about Network device misconfiguration
- Learn about Protocol incompatibility
- Learn about Protocol deprecations
- Learn about IP addressing issues
- Learn about Scope exhaustion
- Learn about Network overlap
- Learn about Routing issues
- Learn about Switching issues
6.3 Ability to troubleshoot security issues.
- Cipher suite deprecations
- Authorization issues
- Authentication issues
- Software vulnerability issues
- Unauthorized software
