CCP (WorldatWork Rewards Certifications) case studies
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The Certified Cloud Professional (CCP) is a vendor-neutral credential for people who design, deploy, and operate workloads in public or hybrid cloud environments. It suits cloud engineers, solutions architects, systems administrators moving into cloud roles, and technical managers who need to reason about cost, risk, and reliability rather than only one vendor's console. Because the profile here is provisional, treat the domain names and weights as a study map, not an official blueprint. The exam is expected to test seven areas: cloud concepts and architecture; compute and application services; storage and data management; networking and connectivity; security, identity, and compliance; operations, monitoring, and reliability; and cost management and governance. The CCP case studies are 5 cases and about 3,193 words.
1Multi-Region DR for Card Authorization
A payments company processes 4 million card transactions per day from a three-tier Java application on Oracle. It is migrating to AWS with a regulatory requirement that primary and disaster-recovery data remain in us-east-1 and us-west-2.
665 words, about 3 min2Batch Genomics Compute Selection
A genomics lab runs 1,200 sequencing analysis jobs per week. Each job takes 20–45 minutes, needs 32 vCPU and 120 GB RAM, and writes 2 TB per day to S3.
637 words, about 3 min3Retail Store Connectivity After MPLS
A retailer operates 180 stores, each with point-of-sale, inventory sync, and video upload. Peak store traffic is 20 Mbps, and POS calls must reach us-east-2 in under 80 ms.
652 words, about 3 min4Multi-Account Access After Acquisitions
A healthcare SaaS company has 140 AWS accounts in Organizations after two acquisitions. Developers currently use long-lived IAM users with AdministratorAccess; 22 access keys were found in public repositories last quarter.
641 words, about 3 min5Ninety-Day Cloud Cost Reduction
A SaaS provider spends 420,000 per month across 200 AWS accounts. Cost allocation tags cover only 65% of spend.
598 words, about 3 min