CCP-C study guide
CCP-C · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
CCP-C is a professional-level cloud certification aimed at practitioners who need to reason across architecture, security, operations, networking, data, automation, and cost - rather than specialize in a single vendor tool. It suits cloud engineers, systems administrators moving into cloud roles, solutions architects, and security or operations staff who share responsibility for cloud environments. The CCP-C study guide has 7 sections and about 2,377 words.
01Cloud Concepts and Architecture
Cloud is defined by five attributes: on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling (multi-tenancy), rapid elasticity, and measured/metered service. The classic trap: a description of a ticket-driven, single-tenant virtualised data centre is not a private cloud, because self-service and pooling are missing.
328 words, about 2 min02Cloud Security, Risk, and Compliance
Security work starts from confidentiality, integrity and availability, applied through the shared responsibility model. In IaaS the provider secures facilities, hardware and hypervisor; the customer secures the guest OS, patching, network rules, identities and data.
349 words, about 2 min03Deployment, Provisioning, and Operations
Provisioning creates resources (a VM, a bucket, a load balancer). Configuration shapes them (packages, OS settings, application config).
310 words, about 2 min04Networking and Connectivity
A VPC/VNet is an isolated IP range defined in CIDR (for example 10.0.0.0/16), subdivided into subnets, each with its own route table. A subnet is public when its route table sends 0.0.0.0/0 to an internet gateway; it is private when the default route points to a NAT gateway (egress only, no inbound from the internet).
356 words, about 2 min05Data Management and Storage
Block storage presents raw volumes to one compute instance with low latency (EBS, Azure managed disks, persistent disks) - used for boot volumes and databases. File storage offers shared POSIX/SMB semantics to many clients concurrently (EFS, Azure Files, Filestore).
350 words, about 2 min06Automation, DevOps, and Infrastructure as Code
DevOps is a culture and practice set summarised by CALMS - culture, automation, lean, measurement, sharing - expressed operationally through continuous integration (merge often, build and test automatically) and continuous delivery (every change is deployable). Automation exists to remove toil, shorten feedback loops and make change smaller and reversible.
341 words, about 2 min07Cost Management and Governance
Cloud converts capital expenditure (buying hardware up front) into operating expenditure (paying for consumption). Total cost of ownership must include migration, training, operations effort, licensing and - the classic omission - data egress and inter-region transfer.
343 words, about 2 min