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CompTIA Exam Syllabus
CV0-004 syllabus, skills measured, and exam topics
Cloud+ validates the skills to maintain and optimize cloud infrastructure services. Learn about the certification, available training and the exam.
Skills measured by domain
Use the weighting table to decide where to spend the most study time.
| Domain | Weight |
|---|---|
| Cloud architecture | 23% |
| Deployment | 19% |
| Operations | 17% |
| Security | 19% |
| DevOps f undamentals | 10% |
| Troubleshooting | 12% |
What to know before you study
These sections explain the role, audience, and exam framing behind the outline.
Detailed outline
Scan each section as a working study checklist instead of one long wall of text.
Cloud architecture (23%)
- Cloud models: analyzing public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud models to support business needs.
- Virtualization: understanding virtualization technologies and their role in cloud environments.
- Cloud networking: deploying solutions like virtual private networks (VPNs) and virtual networks.
- Containerization: explaining containerization and its role in cloud environments.
- Orchestration: managing containers using orchestration techniques.
- Database fundamentals: exploring database concepts and their cloud applications.
- Resource optimization: optimizing cloud resources for performance and cost efficiency.
- Billing management: managing billing considerations for cloud usage.
Deployment (19%)
- System requirements: analyzing requirements for workload migrations.
- Infrastructure as code (IaC): implementing IaC techniques for automation.
- Workload migrations: planning and executing migrations to cloud environments.
- Resource provisioning: provisioning and configuring cloud resources effectively.
Operations (17%)
- Lifecycle management: managing the lifecycle of cloud resources, including scaling and updates.
- Backup and recovery: i mplementing strategies to ensure data integrity.
- Observability: monitoring and analyzing cloud environments for performance optimization.
Security (19%)
- Vulnerability management: identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in cloud environments.
- Identity and access management (IAM): implementing IAM to control resource access.
- Container security: safeguarding containerized applications and resources.
- Compliance standards: ensuring compliance with standards like PCI DSS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001.
- Security controls: deploying controls to protect cloud environments.
DevOps f undamentals (10%)
- Automation: using tools to streamline cloud operations.
- Source control: managing code with source control techniques.
- CI/CD pipelines: building and managing continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines.
- System integration: integrating systems for seamless cloud operations.
- DevOps tools: tools like Kubernetes, Ansible, and Jenkins are used for automation.
- Event-driven architectures: exploring architectures for cloud applications.
Troubleshooting (12%)
- Deployment issues: diagnosing and resolving deployment problems.
- Network connectivity: troubleshooting connectivity issues in cloud environments.
- Security incidents: addressing issues like leaked credentials and privilege escalation.
- Service disruptions: resolving disruptions in services like DNS, DHCP, and NTP.
- Misconfigurations: identifying and fixing misconfigurations in cloud setups.