Certified Cloud Architect (C90-05A) Practice Exam

Certified Cloud Architect (C90-05A) Practice Exam

The Certified Cloud Architect (C90-05A) from Arcitura Education proves that a person can design and plan complete cloud computing systems for businesses. This certification shows that you can create secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions using various technologies. It validates your ability to decide how different cloud services should work together to support a company’s goals.
this certification confirms that you know how to build big cloud setups for organizations. It teaches you to connect different cloud tools and make sure everything runs smoothly and safely. It’s useful for anyone who wants to become an expert in planning and building cloud systems.

Who should take the Exam?

This exam is ideal for:

• Cloud Architects 
• Solution Architects 
• IT Infrastructure Engineers 
• DevOps Engineers 
• Systems Architects 
• IT Consultants 
• Technology Managers 

Skills Required

• Understanding of cloud computing models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Ability to design scalable and secure cloud environments
• Knowledge of networking, storage, and virtualization
• Problem-solving and system integration thinking
• Familiarity with cloud security best practices
• Capacity planning and performance optimization skills

Knowledge Gained

• Designing large-scale cloud architectures
• Combining different cloud services and platforms
• Building secure and compliant cloud environments
• Evaluating costs and optimizing cloud resources
• Creating strategies for migration to the cloud
• Implementing high availability and disaster recovery plans

Course Outline

The Certified Cloud Architect (C90-05A) Exam covers the following topics - 

1. Fundamental Cloud Computing

• Cloud Computing Terminology and Concepts
• Virtualization Basics
• Characteristics which Define a Cloud
• Elasticity
• Resiliency
• On-Demand and Measured Usage
• Benefits, Challenges and Risks of Cloud Computing Platforms and Cloud Services
• The Roles of Cloud Resource Administrator and Cloud Service Owner
• The Roles of Cloud Service and Cloud Service Consumer
• The SaaS (Software as a Service) Cloud Delivery Model
• The PaaS (Platform as a Service) Cloud Delivery Model
• The IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) Cloud Delivery Model
• Combining Cloud Delivery Models
• Public Cloud Deployment Models
• Private Cloud Deployment Models
• Hybrid Cloud Deployment Models
• Community Cloud Deployment Models
• Comparing and Calculating Cloud and On-Premise Solution Costs using the Business Cost Metrics and Formulas
• Formulas for Calculating and Rating SLA Quality of Service Characteristics

2. Cloud Technology Concepts

• Cloud Computing Mechanisms that Establish Architectural Building Blocks
• The Virtual Servers
• The Containers
• The Ready-Made Environments
• The Failover Systems
• The Pay-Per-Use Monitors
• The Automated Scaling Listeners
• The Multi-Device Brokers
• The Resource Replication
• How Individual Cloud Computing Mechanisms Support Cloud Characteristics
• Containerization, Container Hosting and Logical Pod Containers
• Compare Containerization and Virtualization
• The Cloud Balancing and Cloud Bursting Architectures
• The Common Risks, Threats and Vulnerabilities of Cloud-based Services and Cloud-hosted Solutions
• The Cloud Security Mechanisms used to Counter Threats and Attacks
• The Cloud-Based Security Groups and Hardened Virtual Server Images
• The Cloud Service Implementation Mediums (which also includes Web Services and REST Services)
• The Cloud Storage Benefits and Challenges, Cloud Storage Services, Technologies and Approaches
• The Non-Relational (NoSQL) Storage as compared against the Relational Storage
• The Cloud Service Testing Considerations and Testing Types
• The Service Grids and Autonomic Computing
• The Cloud Computing Industry Standards Organizations

3. Fundamental Cloud Architecture

• Understanding the Technology Architecture of Private Clouds and Public Clouds
• Understanding the Technology Architecture of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS Environments
• Automated Administration and Centralized Remote Administration
• Container Sidecars and Container Chains
• Self-Provisioning and Platform Provisioning
• Rich Containers and Logical Pod Containers
• Bare-Metal Provisioning and Resource Management
• Single-Node Multi-Containers and Multipath Resource Access
• Usage Monitoring and Broad Access
• Realtime Resource Availability and Pay-as-You-Go
• Shared Resources and Resource Pooling
• Rapid Provisioning and Resource Reservation
• Non-Disruptive Service Relocation and Service State Management
• Workload Distribution and Dynamic Scalability

4. Advanced Cloud Architecture +

• Understanding the Technology Architecture of Elastic, Resilient, Multitenant and Containerized Environments
• Elastic Resource Capacity and Elastic Network Capacity
• Multi-Container Isolation Control and Volatile Container Configuration
• Serverless Deployment and Elastic Disk Provisioning
• Leader Node Election and Micro Scatter-Gather
• Hypervisor Clustering and Redundant Storage
• Storage Service Gateway and Live Storage Migration
• LUN Storage and LUN Migration
• Dynamic Failure Detection and Recovery and Zero Downtime
• Service Load Balancing and Load Balanced Virtual Server Instances
• Load Balanced Virtual Switches and Persistent Virtual Network Configurations
• Dynamic Data Normalization and Synchronized Operating State
• Intra-Storage Device Vertical Tiering and Cross-Storage Device Vertical Tiering
• Storage Workload Management and Storage Maintenance Window
• Direct I/O Access and Direct LUN Access
• Redundant Physical Connection for Virtual Servers
• Cloud Bursting, including Burst In and Burst Out to Private/Public Clouds
• Cloud Balancing

5. Cloud Architecture Lab

• Reading Exercise 6.1: Case Study Background XIT
• Lab Exercise 6.2: IaaS Environment Setup
• Lab Exercise 6.3: IaaS Architecture Customization
• Lab Exercise 6.4: Cloud Characteristics
• Reading Exercise 6.5: Case Study Background Sport Blips
• Lab Exercise 6.6: High-Performance Cloud Architecture
• Lab Exercise 6.7: Performance Optimization
• Lab Exercise 6.8: Cloud Characteristics
• Reading and Lab Exercise 6.9: High-Connectivity Cloud Architecture