2.5 Given a set of requirements, provision the appropriate cloud resources.
Provisioning starts from requirements. Write each down and pick resources that satisfy all of them at the lowest reasonable cost.
Requirements
- Storage requirements
- Capacity, type (block, file, object), durability and tier.
- Performance requirements
- Latency, IOPS, throughput and CPU targets.
- Security requirements
- Encryption, network isolation, identity and logging.
- Cost requirements
- Budget limits and billing model choices.
- Availability requirements
- Uptime targets, multi-zone or multi-region design, RTO and RPO.
- Compliance requirements
- Data residency, certifications and retention rules.
- Network requirements
- Connectivity, bandwidth, IP ranges and public versus private exposure.
- Compute requirements
- Instance types, CPU, memory, GPU and scaling needs.
Check your understanding
Loading quiz…
Original CoreQ Academy material, mapped to objective 2.5 of the publicly available CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-004 exam objectives (Exam objectives V4, document version 5.0). Not affiliated with or endorsed by CompTIA. Contains no exam questions.