Cloud+ study plan

Diagram a three-tier cloud application, labeling compute, storage, network, and identity boundaries

Compare IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS by placing six sample workloads into the correct service model

Compute allowed monthly downtime for 99.9%, 99.95%, and 99.99% SLAs

Map five security and operations tasks to the responsible party under the shared responsibility model

Design an active-passive disaster recovery plan across two regions and state RTO and RPO for each application tier

Classify six scenarios as public, private, hybrid, or multi-cloud deployment models

Select object, block, or file storage for four given workloads and justify each choice in one sentence

Outline the steps to provision a virtual network with public and private subnets and a NAT path

Write a deployment readiness checklist covering capacity planning, resource tagging, and rollback criteria

Compare SSO, MFA, and role-based access control in a written side-by-side summary

Differentiate symmetric from asymmetric encryption and match each to appropriate use cases

Identify the security controls required before promoting a workload from test to production

Map five security controls to the CIA triad and label each as preventive, detective, or corrective

Draft a network security design including an edge firewall, a web application firewall, and segmented subnets

Compare secrets management approaches and write a key rotation policy with a stated interval

Distinguish PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR by the data types each governs

Build a monitoring plan selecting metrics, log sources, and alert thresholds for a web application

Calculate the monthly cost of a sample workload using reserved versus on-demand pricing

Apply a structured troubleshooting method to a simulated connectivity failure and document each step

Identify which logs to collect first when diagnosing an authentication failure

Write a change management record with a tested rollback plan for a production patch

Diagnose four fault scenarios (DNS resolution, latency spike, authorization failure, storage quota) and record the first diagnostic command for each

Compare full, incremental, and differential backups and schedule a 3-2-1 backup plan

Sequence the escalation path from first-line monitoring alert to vendor support

Describe CI/CD pipeline stages and place five build, test, and release tasks into the correct stage

Compare blue-green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies by rollback risk and blast radius

Identify idempotent behavior in a sample infrastructure-as-code template and explain why it matters

List three benefits of version-controlling infrastructure definitions

Complete two full-length timed practice exams and log every missed question by domain

Run a 90-minute targeted drill on each of the two lowest-scoring domains

Explain one heavy-domain concept aloud in under five minutes without notes

Review the domain score tracker and schedule final weak-area repetition