CCC-A study plan

Define the five NIST essential characteristics of cloud computing and give a concrete example of each from a public cloud provider

Distinguish IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS by naming the layer of the stack each manages and one workload that fits each model

Compare public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud deployment models on cost, control, and operational burden

Sketch the shared responsibility boundary for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and mark who owns the guest OS, runtime, and data in each

Describe virtualization versus containerization and explain when each is the better fit for a workload

Explain horizontal and vertical scaling and identify which one a stateless web tier should use

Trace a request through load balancer, autoscaling group, and multi-AZ database and label where failure domains apply

Differentiate block, file, and object storage and match each to a stated use case

Explain how regions and availability zones reduce blast radius and what still fails together

Explain the purpose of a content delivery network and describe how caching at the edge changes latency and origin load

Compare relational, key-value, document, and wide-column data stores on consistency model and access pattern fit

Describe how a queue decouples producers from consumers and what backpressure looks like without one

Explain infrastructure as code and state two risks of manual console changes in a managed environment

Calculate the monthly cost of a stated workload from given unit prices for compute hours, storage GB, and egress GB

List the six AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars and state the core design question each pillar asks

Map a stated business objective such as faster time to market or reduced capital expenditure to the specific cloud capability that delivers it

Explain total cost of ownership and identify three cost categories that on-premises estimates commonly omit

Distinguish capital expenditure from operating expenditure and describe the cash-flow effect of moving from one to the other

Identify three organizational or cultural blockers to cloud adoption and one mitigation for each

Explain the principle of least privilege and rewrite an over-broad policy statement into a scoped one

Distinguish authentication from authorization and place identity federation and single sign-on correctly against each

Describe encryption at rest and in transit and identify where key management sits in the shared responsibility model

Explain the CIA triad and classify three given incidents by which property each violates

Explain why logging, monitoring, and alerting are detective controls and name one control that is preventive for the same risk

Distinguish governance from compliance and give one example of each in a cloud context

Explain how tagging and cost allocation support both financial governance and ownership accountability

Describe the purpose of a service-level agreement and distinguish SLA, SLO, and SLI with a concrete metric for each

Compare the four common support plan tiers on response time and what each includes

Explain what a change management process protects against and how infrastructure as code changes its shape

Answer 60 mixed practice questions under timed conditions and log the domain and reasoning error for every miss

Re-derive the shared responsibility split for any service model without notes

Re-explain the five Well-Architected pillars and one design trade-off for each from memory

Identify your two weakest domains from the practice log and list the specific sub-topics to revisit

Close every item in the week 7 error log by restating the correct concept in your own words

Complete a second timed practice set of at least 60 questions and compare per-domain accuracy against week 7

Explain out loud, in under two minutes each, the service models, shared responsibility, scaling, and least privilege

Review the week 1, 4, and 6 deliverables and correct any statement you can no longer defend