The Certified Cloud Governance Specialist course provides IT professionals with fundamental knowledge in cloud computing and cloud governance. It reviews cloud technology concepts and delves into advanced cloud governance concepts. The final module of the course provides a cloud governance lab for candidates to practice acquired skills and demonstrate consolidation of knowledge. Because the course is positioned as vendor-neutral, the course materials and skills proven by attaining the Cloud Governance Combined Certification (C90.CGO) are applicable to any vendor or cloud platform. Not only does the course provide the skills to pass the Cloud Governance Combined Certification, but the 5 modules covered are 5 of the 18 modules required to obtain the CCP (Cloud Certified Professional) designation.
Completion of the Certified Cloud Governance Specialist course and attainment of a Cloud Governance Combined Certification provides employers with the confidence that successful candidates are able to master cloud computing from an industry and vendor-neutral perspective, are proficient in cloud computing concepts, technologies and practices, have knowledge about cloud governance and are a recognized cloud computing professional.
The course includes a 12-month subscription to the following digital course materials:
- Video Lessons (Modules 1 and 2)
- Workbook (Modules 1, 2, 10 and 11)
- Exam Preparation Guide with Sample Questions (Modules 1, 2, 10, 11 and 12)
- Supplement (Modules 1 and 2
- Mind Map Poster (Modules 1, 2, 10, 11 and 12)
- Flashcards with Sample Questions (Modules 1, 2, 10, 11 and 12)
- Audio Tutor Recording (Modules 10, 11 and 12)
- Lab Exercises Booklet (Module 12)
- Pearson Vue Cloud Governance Combined Certification (C90.CGO) exam voucher
Arcitura Certified Cloud Governance Specialist Course Outline
Module 1: Fundamental cloud computing terminology and concepts
- Basics of virtualization
- Specific characteristics that define a cloud
- Understanding elasticity, resiliency, on-demand and measured usage
- Benefits, challenges and risks of contemporary cloud computing Platforms and cloud services
- Cloud resource administrator and cloud service owner roles
- Cloud service and cloud service consumer roles
- Understanding the software as a service (SaaS) cloud delivery model
- Understanding the platform as a service (PaaS) cloud delivery model
- Understanding the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud delivery model
- Combining cloud delivery models
- Public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud and community cloud deployment models
- Business cost metrics and formulas for comparing and calculating cloud and on-premise solution costs
- Formulas for calculating and rating SLA quality of service characteristics
Module 2: Cloud Technology Concepts
- Cloud computing mechanisms that establish architectural building blocks
- Virtual servers, containers, ready-made environments, failover systems & pay-per-use monitors
- Automated scaling listeners, multi-device brokers & resource replication
- Understanding how individual cloud computing mechanisms support cloud characteristics
- An introduction to containerization, container hosting & logical pod containers
- A comparison of containerization and virtualization
- Cloud balancing and cloud bursting architectures
- Common risks, threats and vulnerabilities of cloud-based services & cloud-hosted solutions
- cloud security mechanisms used to counter threats and attacks
- Understanding cloud-based security groups and hardened virtual server images
- Cloud service implementation mediums (including web services and REST services)
- Cloud storage benefits and challenges, cloud storage services, technologies and approaches
- Non-relational (NoSQL) storage compared to relational storage
- Cloud service testing considerations and testing types
- Service grids and autonomic computing
- Cloud computing industry standards organizations
Module 10: Fundamental Cloud Governance
- Understanding cloud governance programs, models, and controls
- The cloud governance lifecycle
- Common cloud project lifecycle stages (and how they are governed)
- Cloud domain IT resource inventory models (centralized/federated cloud, centralized/federated multi-cloud)
- Cloud governance task types (unsubscribed, automated, passive, active, etc.)
- Cloud service governance types (simple, composite, hybrid, etc.)
- Cloud governance framework components
- Cloud governance tools and technology (registries, repositories, agents, network relays, policy systems, etc.)
- Cloud governance technology types (administrative, enforcement, monitoring, reporting)
- Cloud governance precepts and processes
- Cloud governance level models (singe/multi enterprise/corporate)
- Defined strategic cloud roadmap
- Defined criteria of cloud maturity and adoption
- Defined cloud service and delivery model
- Standardized funding model
- Strategic cloud planning and stakeholder engagement
- Cloud maturity model definition and cloud maturity gap analysis
- Cloud maturity risk assessment and cloud maturity impact analysisModule 11: Advanced Cloud Governance
Module 11: Advanced Cloud Governance
- Cloud architecture definition, applied business/industry standards, defined cloud reference architecture
- Defined cloud service domains, organizational alignment and standardized funding model, tenant isolation
- Cloud center of excellence (CCoE) establishment, ensured organizational competency
- Required standards and regulations definition, architecture validation, cloud data security definition
- Cloud data security assessment, licensing and tenant isolation assessments, historical log collection
- Identified and adhered constraints, cloud service domain definition, cloud service criteria validation
- Cloud service review, SLA matching, cloud service standardization, cloud service policy validation
- Build process validation, centralized cloud service registry, interoperable cloud service standards
- Cloud service registry access control, cloud service registry record review, cloud shared usage request
- Cloud shared service modification request, cloud service interoperability assessment
- Cloud service certification review, cloud service maintenance review, cloud service deployment standards
- Cloud service test results teview, cloud testing tool standards, cloud testing parameter standards
- Cloud service testing standards, cloud integration testing standards, cloud test data usage
- Cloud service de-provisioning notification, cloud service de-provisioning
- Post-termination assessment, de-provisioning cloud services
Module 12: Cloud Governance Lab
This course module presents participants with a series of exercises and problems that are designed to test their ability to apply their knowledge of topics covered previously in course modules 10 and 11. Completing this lab will help highlight areas that require further attention and will further prove hands-on proficiency in the application of cloud governance framework components, models, precepts and processes.
Who Should Take This Course
- Chief Data Officer
- Data Governance Manager
- Data Governance Committee/Team
- Cloud consultant
