CLDFND - Understanding Cisco Cloud Fundamentals v1.0
COURSE OUTLINE:
This course provides you with the necessary knowledge and skills to perform foundational tasks related to cloud computing, and helps prepare you for the CCNA Cloud certification, an associate-level certification specializing in cloud technologies.
Audience
- Cloud operations engineers
- Cloud technical administrators
- Cloud infrastructure architects
Prerequisites
- An understanding of network fundamentals (routing, switching, VLAN)
- An understanding of compute fundamentals (servers, operating systems)
- An understanding of storage fundamentals (basics of FC, FCoE, VSAN)
Learning Objectives
- Common cloud characteristics
- Cloud service models
- Compare cloud deployment models
- Illustrate key features of UCS
- Server virtualization
- Network architectures for the data center
- Cisco ACI
- Infrastructure virtualization
- Virtual networking services
- Virtual Application Containers
- Analyze storage provisioning concepts
- Basic SAN storage concepts
- Basic NAS storage concepts
- Compare the difference between all the storage access technologies
- Various Cisco storage network devices
- Various reference architectures for converged infrastructure
1. Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Introducing Cloud Computing Basic Concepts
- Describing Cloud Service Models
- Comparing Cloud Deployment Models
- Exploring the Cisco Intercloud Solution
2. Cloud Networking
- Describing Cisco Data Center Network Architecture
- Exploring Virtual Networking
- Identifying Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches
- Define and Analyze Cisco Virtual Networking Service Appliances
- Define and Analyze Software Defined Network Fundamentals
- Describing the Cisco ACI Solution
3. Cloud Storage
- Comparing Storage
- Describing Fibre Channel Storage Networking Concepts
- Exploring NAS Storage Basic Concepts
- Identifying Cisco MDS and UCS Invicta Products
4. Cloud Compute
- Describing Cisco UCS C-Series Product Family
- Identifying Cisco UCS B-Series Product Family
- Explaining Cisco UCS Blade Provisioning
- Defining Server Virtualization
5. Cloud Automation and Reference Architectures
- Exploring Reference Architecture for Converged Infrastructure
- Describing Cloud Automation, Provisioning, and Management Platforms