Learning Objectives 1
Describes the emergence of cloud computing from a combination of
business drivers and technology innovations and describe the
evolution of definitions associated with cloud computing.
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Learning Objectives 1
Describes the emergence of cloud computing from a combination of
business drivers and technology innovations and describe the
evolution of definitions associated with cloud computing.
Describe the responsibility and challenges of capacity planning for
IT enterprises and explain the issue of operating overhead for
organizations with fluctuating or unpredictable usage requirements.
Explain the need for organizational agility for an IT enterprise to
respond to business change.
Describe the concept of grid computing and the notion of “pay-asyou-go” computing.Learning Objectives 2
Explain the demand-driven nature and the back-end technology
architectures that are commonly part of Web applications.
Explain the emergence of cloud computing as a distinct field of
expertise resulting from the business drivers and technology
innovations.
Describe the term “service” within the context of cloud computing
and explain what constitutes an IT resource.Learning Objectives 3
Describe horizontal scaling and the two types of horizontal scaling –
and – describe vertical scaling and the two types of vertical scaling.
Explain virtualization as a key technology in cloud computing
environments, as well as the purpose of a virtualization environment
Explain what constitutes a cloud and the difference between an onpremise and cloud- based IT resourceLearning Objectives 4
Describe the term “service” from a general IT perspective and what constitutes a cloud
service.
Describe the service agent and how it is commonly used within clouds.
Describe the benefit of Reduced Investment and Proportional Costs and explain the
relationship of this benefit to the pay-for-use billing model and how the cost benefits of
leasing cloud-based IT resources differ from on-premise IT resources.
Describe the benefit of Increased Scalability and explain how this benefit can relate to
an organization’s responsiveness.
Describe the benefit of Increased Availability and Reliability and explain how this
benefit relates to failover support and how it is provided transparently to cloud
consumers.
Describe the challenge of Increased Security Vulnerabilities and explain how this
challenge relates to expanding and overlapping trust boundaries and how it also relates
to security technology compatibility issues between cloud consumers and cloud
providers.Learning Objectives 4
Describe the challenge of Reduced Operational Governance Control
and explain why this challenge arises with cloud environments and
how it relates the cloud consumer’s usage of cloud provider SLAs.
Further explain also how this challenge can lead to problems with
irresponsible cloud providers.
Describe the challenge of Limited Portability between Cloud
Providers and explain why cloud providers impose proprietary
characteristics within their clouds and explain the role of industry
standardization in relation to this challenge.
Describe the challenge of Multi-Regional Compliance and Legal
Issues and explain how legal issues pertaining to the geographic
location of cloud consumer data and IT resources can cause
problems.A Brief History 1
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