CompTIA Cloud+
Overview
CompTIA Cloud+ (v4) is a vendor-neutral, performance-based certification that validates the
technical skills required to deploy, secure, automate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and
services. The updated exam (CV0-004) reflects real-world cloud job roles with a stronger
emphasis on DevOps, orchestration, containerization, and multi-cloud environments.
This course is ideal for cloud engineers, systems administrators, and DevOps professionals working in enterprise or hybrid cloud settings.
This course is ideal for cloud engineers, systems administrators, and DevOps professionals working in enterprise or hybrid cloud settings.
What You’ll Learn
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Evaluate and apply the right cloud architecture models (public, private, hybrid, multicloud)
- Deploy and manage cloud-based infrastructure using automation and orchestration
- Secure cloud environments with IAM, vulnerability management, and compliance
standards - Implement DevOps practices like CI/CD pipelines and event-driven architectures
- Monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot cloud systems for reliability and cost-efficiency
Prerequisites
- 2–3 years of experience in systems administration, networking, or cloud operations
- Familiarity with virtualization, scripting, and basic security concepts
- CompTIA Network+ or Server+ (recommended but not mandatory)
Course Content Outline
1. Cloud Architecture (23%)
- Cloud Models: Public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud strategies
- Virtualization: Hypervisors, virtual machines, and their cloud integrations
- Networking: VPNs, virtual switches, and virtual private clouds (VPCs)
- Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, container security, and orchestration using
Kubernetes - Database Fundamentals: Understanding databases in cloud deployments
- Resource Optimization: Performance and cost efficiency planning
- Billing Management: Usage metering and forecasting costs
2. Deployment (19%)
- System Requirements: Assessing workloads for cloud readiness
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Tools and scripting for automated provisioning
- Workload Migrations: Planning and executing lift-and-shift or replatform strategies
- Resource Provisioning: Automated deployment of VMs, storage, and networking
3. Operations (17%)
- Lifecycle Management: Scaling, updates, and patching across cloud resources
- Backup & Recovery: Data integrity and redundancy strategies
- Observability: Monitoring, metrics, and performance analysis tools
4. Security (19%)
- Vulnerability Management: Scanning, risk analysis, and remediation
- IAM: Role-based access controls, identity federation, and MFA
- Container Security: Best practices for securing containerized applications
- Compliance Standards: PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001
- Security Controls: Encryption, firewalls, WAFs, and security groups
5. DevOps Fundamentals (10%)
- Automation: Task orchestration with Ansible, Terraform, etc.
- Source Control: Versioning and collaboration using Git
- CI/CD Pipelines: Jenkins, GitLab CI, and pipeline stages
- System Integration: APIs, webhooks, and service chaining
- Event-Driven Architectures: Serverless models, event triggers, and queueing
6. Troubleshooting (12%)
- Deployment Issues: Rollbacks, configuration errors
- Network Connectivity: DNS, DHCP, NTP, latency, and packet loss
- Security Incidents: Leaked keys, privilege escalation, access breaches
- Service Disruptions: High availability, failover mechanisms
- Misconfigurations: Audit and resolution of cloud setting conflicts