Cloud, Associate (JNCIA-Cloud)

Cloud Fundamentals

Identify the concepts or functionalities of various fundamental elements of cloud networking

• Deployment models (Public/private/hybrid cloud)
• Service models (SaaS/IaaS/PaaS)
• Cloud-native architectures
• Cloud automation tools

Cloud Infrastructure (NFV and SDN)

Identify the concepts, benefits, or functionalities of Network Functions Virtualization

• NFV architecture
• NFV orchestration
• VNFs

Identify the concepts, benefits, or functionalities of software-defined networking

• SDN architecture
• SDN controller
• SDN solutions

Network Virtualization

Identify the concepts, operations, or functionalities of network virtualization

• Virtual network types
• Underlay and overlay networks
• Encapsulation and tunneling (MPLS over GRE/MPLS over UDP/VXLAN/EVPN with VXLAN/GENEVE)

Cloud Virtualization

Identify the concepts, operations, or functionalities of Linux virtualization

• Linux architecture
• Hypervisor type (type 1 & 2)
• Hypervisor operations and concepts
• KVM/QEMU concepts and operations
• Creating virtual machines

Identify the concepts, operations, or functionalities of Linux containers

• Container versus virtual machine
• Container components
• Creating containers using Docker

Cloud Orchestration with OpenStack

Identify the concepts, operations, or functionalities of OpenStack

• Creating and managing VMs in OpenStack
• Automation using HEAT templates in YAML
• Using OpenStack UIs
• OpenStack networking plugins
• OpenStack Security Groups

Cloud Orchestration with Kubernetes

Identify the concepts, operations, or functionalities of Kubernetes

• Creating and managing containers in Kubernetes
• Kubernetes API Objects (Pods, ReplicaSets, Deployments, Services)
• Kubernetes namespaces and CNI plug-ins

Cloud Orchestration with OpenShift