PCCN-K (Knowledge Professional) case studies
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The Professional Cloud Service Manager (PCCN-K) is one of the Cloud certifications listed in the Cloud Credential Council (CCC) Cloud Certification Program, which the CCC describes as enabling IT professionals and organizations to maximize the benefits of cloud solutions. It is a vendor-neutral credential aimed at people who define, manage, and support cloud-based services rather than at pure engineering specialists - for example service managers, IT service management practitioners moving into cloud roles, and consultants who bridge cloud technology and business value. The PCCN-K (Knowledge Professional) case studies are 5 cases and about 3,223 words.
1Shared Responsibility and Service Model Boundaries at a Hybrid Insurer
Northvale Insurance runs its policy administration system on 620 virtual machines across two owned data centres. A central cloud centre of excellence proposes managed Kubernetes (containers-as-a-service) on provider A for a new claims portal, provider B object storage for scanned documents, and a SaaS CRM.
666 words, about 3 min2Federated Cloud Governance and a GPU Request at Harbor Retail
Harbor Retail Group operates 14 business units with 9 AWS accounts, 3 Azure subscriptions, and 2 GCP projects. Monthly cloud spend is $1.8M, up 38% year on year while revenue is flat.
624 words, about 3 min3SLA Composition and Cutover for a Clinical Records Platform
Meridian Health is moving its electronic health record modules to a vendor-hosted SaaS platform. Medication ordering has a 6-hour recovery time objective and a 15-minute recovery point objective; imaging metadata has a 4-hour RTO and 1-hour RPO.
616 words, about 3 min4Error Budgets and Incident Practice at a Logistics SaaS
ParcelPilot runs a multi-tenant logistics SaaS on 23 microservices across two regions. Its public availability target is 99.95%, but last quarter it achieved 99.91%.
639 words, about 3 min5Risk Prioritization and Recovery Testing at a Regulated Fintech
Aureus Fintech processes card payments for 2,300 merchants. A regulator issued 140 findings; 31 are overdue.
678 words, about 3 min