• Cloud engineers, cloud operations professionals, infrastructure engineers, or systems administrators working or planning to work in cloud environments
• IT professionals responsible for provisioning, maintaining, and optimizing cloud infrastructure
• Those seeking a vendor-neutral certification validating practical cloud operations skills
• Participants preparing to sit the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-004) exam

• 2–3 years of hands-on IT experience, particularly in systems administration or network operations
• Familiarity with virtualization, networking, and storage technologies
• Understanding of cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), deployment models (public, private, hybrid)
• Basic exposure to automation, scripting, or DevOps pipelines (helpful but not mandatory)

• Design and assess cloud architectures that align with business and technical requirements
• Evaluate, provision, and configure cloud resources reliably using modern deployment methods
• Implement and enforce security controls in cloud environments (IAM, network, data protection)
• Operate cloud infrastructure across its lifecycle: patching, backups, scaling, automation
• Integrate DevOps practices into cloud operations (CI/CD, version control, infrastructure as code)
• Monitor, analyze, and respond to system metrics, logs, and alerts to maintain operational health
• Troubleshoot a wide range of cloud issues across deployment, connectivity, configuration, and security
• Optimize performance, cost, and resource usage in live cloud environments
• Be ready to attempt the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-004) certification exam

• Cloud deployment models, service models, multicloud, hybrid, “cloud within a cloud”
• Virtualization and containerization roles
• Cloud networking (VPC, VPN, overlay networks)
• Capacity planning, resource optimization, billing & cost modeling
• High-availability, scaling, region / zone design

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methods

• Provisioning compute, storage, and networking resources

• Workload migrations (P2V, V2V, cloud migrations)

• Template use, post-deployment validation

• Identity & access management (IAM, directory, federation)

• Network segmentation, traffic controls

• OS / application hardening, encryption, compliance controls

• Vulnerability management and patching

• Incident response procedures

• Lifecycle, patching, backups, change management
• Observability & monitoring (logs, metrics, alerts)
• Automating operations & orchestration
• Right-sizing, performance tuning, resource optimization

• CI/CD pipeline concepts, version control, integration
• Automation tooling (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
• System integration, event-driven architectures
• Source control and deployment strategies

• Troubleshooting methodology and operations

• Network, deployment, and configuration issues

• Security incident resolution

• Service disruption diagnosis and root-cause analysis