CLDFND 1.1 – Understanding Cisco Cloud Fundamentals

This course is designed to provide students with the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to perform foundational tasks related to Cloud computing.

Associated Certification:

• CCNA Cloud

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe common cloud characteristics
• Describe and Identify the cloud service models
• Describe and Compare cloud deployment models
• Identify cloud deployment decision factors
• Identify and Illustrate key features of UCS
• Define server virtualization
• Describe network architectures for the data center
• Identify infrastructure virtualization
• Analyze and Identify storage provisioning concepts
• Describe and Compare the difference between all the storage access technologies
• Describe and Compare various reference architectures for converged infrastructure

• Module 1: Cloud Characteristics and Models
• Module 2: Cloud Deployment
• Module 3: Basic Knowledge of Cloud Compute
• Module 4: Basic Knowledge of Cloud Networking
• Module 5: Basic Knowledge of Cloud Storage

• Cloud Engineers
• Cloud Administrators
• Cloud Operations
• Support Engineers
• Cloud Design Engineers
• Cloud Infrastructure Architects
• Virtualization Engineers
• Channel Partners
• Customers
• Employees

It is recommended, but not required, that students have the following knowledge and skills:

• Understand Network Fundamentals –
• Understand Compute Fundamentals
• Understand Storage Fundamentals