Architecture, design, and security

- [Narrator] You are watching IT Pro TV. (beeping) (light music) (air swooshes) - Hello ladies and gentlemen, thank you for tuning in. We'd like to introduce you as we are kicking off a new course. That's right. We're talking about the CompTIA Cloud Plus series and we want to kind of, well, get your feet wet and hopefully tantalize you a little bit with an overview on what you can expect. My name's Wes Bryan and I'm going to be one of the subject matter experts inside of this course. My personally, I have a background in teaching technical courses and I've been doing this for a little bit over a decade and I've taught A Plus, Net Plus, Security Plus as well as I have taught Cloud Plus in the past as well, likewise. But I'm going to introduce you to, well, our cosme here and that is going to be Mr. Ronnie Wong. Ronnie, tell the viewers a little bit about yourself. - All right, Wes, as we get started in this course, I have relevant experience once again in teaching those same courses such as A Plus, Network Plus, and... Security Plus as well. And also, of course, Sysco courses, which is pretty much my main stay of what I tend to actually be able to do. But I also of course have certifications in the C C and A cloud that was once actually there too. So I do know the idea of the cloud background and putting us together as a team here for an introductory level course into cloud technologies, while that was just the match that we had to make sure that we did. And so we are looking forward to this course. - Alright, Ronnie, you know I'm going to, you know, I could assume, but let's go ahead and clarify any assumptions, but we're talking about CompTIA Cloud Plus. So again, I assume that this is going to be driven towards certification and I'm going to let you speak to that as well. But like all certification exams, our viewers have to bring a certain amount to the table. Can you speak to both of these questions? - Sure, when it comes down to it, hopefully what you actually end up getting out of this course is not only of course the ability for you to pass the Cloud Plus exam, the material here along with your own personal study that should help you to be able to do that, but also to be able to actually see how we can begin to learn in the public cloud setting. And we're going to use Azure, Microsoft Azure, as Wes actually helps us to demonstrate that through, that's what we're actually going to use to help us to learn more about the idea of cloud, as well as of course a combination of lecture that we have as well. Now, in terms of what you need to bring. Previous experience that you have, it is going to be equivalent as we take a look here, you actually see right here in the way darker color and of course the colorful little icon that they have for the CompTIA here is two to three years of system administration, essentially five years in IT. So it is not one that's a beginner level. If you don't have a background in hardware, if you don't have a background in terms of understanding networking, this is probably not the place for you to start to actually say, I'm going to jump right into the idea of cloud technologies. So your experience level essentially is an intermediate person in IT, two to three years of experience is what they're looking for. And this is one of the few exams as we go through this, we'll actually see that we can talk about the idea of performance based questions. So CompTIA of course equates it to these other exams that you see right here and some of them are actually equatable, but this one actually requires five years or three years in InfoSec. You name it, there's a lot more that's going on here in terms of that comparison. But the exam focus itself for what we have here is going to be job role focused as well, covers different technologies and we'll actually be doing that too. Now as we come through and we want to make sure that we understand a little bit more about the exam itself. Well here it is, here's the comparison. We do have this previously inside the IT Pro TV courses, but this is the exam that we're covering, the CV0-003. It's launch date was right here. And you'll see that they really did kind of focus down the essential skills and all this was because of what has been happening in the last year and a half or so as we've come through that the the idea of the pandemic. So they've really focused in on those technologies instead. And now you'll see that instead of actually being a, the idea of a maximum of 90 questions here, this is going to be 90 questions itself and it is multiple choice and performance based. You get about a minute per question and there is your passing score as well. And they show you the idea, once again, of the recommended experience and, as of this date in US dollars, 338 US dollars. But make sure you verify whatever that cost is going to be to you regardless of where you are in the world. And you're going to check this out through a Pearson VUE Testing Center is where you normally will end up test checking this out. - Sure thing, Ronnie. Now one of the questions I have for you, and maybe you can help us with our viewers, when it comes to structure of this course, how does that compare with, for instance, the exam objectives? - All right, so when we talk about the idea of what the structure of this is going to be, let's go ahead and take a look at my screen again and you can always download of course, the objectives itself directly from CompTIA. So make sure you can actually do that. You'll actually go to this website right here. Let me see if I can zoom in at the top edge of the screen. So you'll actually be able to do that right here. And then you'll fill out, of course, a form over on this side of the screen somewhere, oh right there, okay. So you'll actually see where you can get practice questions and exam objectives and be able to download that for you. I do recommend that you do that. If not, it'll also of course be in our learner resources too and you'll get some of those details. Now in terms of what will be tested on on the exam, you actually see that they broke it down into five different domains here. Now, traditionally, right, this is more lecture based than normal, but because of the way that this is a performance driven exam, Wes and I are going to take a little bit of a different approach to this in which what you're going to see is some of it will be lecture, a lot of it will also include demonstrations using Microsoft Azure and Wes will be driving all those for us. And then a ton of scenario-based types of questions that we'll also be going over so that you can see how we would actually tackle these questions if we were actually to come in contact with that as well. So we'll go through all the different domains and we'll cover the exam objectives itself. Now, in some of these, because they are repetitive at times here, we won't actually be hitting them again and again and again, but what you'll see is we'll kind of consolidate some of them so that we're not actually doing that. And ultimately, of course, you'll see that there's some topics where you'll go, hey, you didn't cover this, but the idea of the troubleshooting, right? We're going to follow methodology. That means you can follow that same methodology regardless of what topics are actually covered in everything in terms of troubleshooting there too. So hopefully you'll see that this exam, or not this exam, this course will feel a little bit different than what you've actually experienced before because of all the stuff that we've jam packed in here and that we've tried to actually make a little bit more practical at the same time, and also help to prepare you for that exam. - Alright, Ron, that's a lot of exciting content and I know I'm excited it, but what's got you excited about, you know, this new Cloud Plus series that we're going to endeavor in? - So Wes, I think that what's got me excited and hopefully what's got you excited is that we're going to try out so many different things as we go through this and you're going to actually be able to see that we included in so many hands-on things for you so that you can jump in there and actually be able to do a lot of this stuff on your own as well as help prepare you for the exam. Wes, this is probably one of the, I hope it's going to be one of the most fun courses that we actually get to work on together. - I can't wait, I know I'm excited for the demos as well, and we hope you're excited for the new CompTIA Cloud Plus series. So stay tuned for the upcoming episodes. (soft music) - [Narrator] Thank you for watching IT Pro TV. (air swooshes)