Cloud Fundamentals

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

• Deployment models (public/private/hybrid cloud)
• Service models: Software as a Service (SaaS) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Cloud-native architectures
• Cloud automation tools

Cloud Infrastructure: Networks Functions Virtualization (NFV) and SDN

Identify the concepts, benefits, or functionalities of (NFV):

• NFV architecture
• NFV orchestration
• Virtualized network functions (VNFs)

Identify the concepts, benefits, or functionalities of SDN:

• 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 and 2)
• Hypervisor operations and concepts
• Kernal-based virtual machine (KVM), Quick Emulator (QEMU) concepts and operations
• Creation of virtual machines (VMs)

Identify the concepts, operations, or functionalities of Linux containers:

• Container versus VM
• Container components
• Creation of containers using Docker

Cloud Orchestration with OpenStack

Identify the concepts, operations, or functionalities of OpenStack:

• Creation and management of VMs in OpenStack
• Automation using HEAT templates in Yet Another Markup Language (YAML)
• OpenStack UI usage
• OpenStack networking plugins
• OpenStack security groups

Cloud Orchestration with Kubernetes

Identify the concepts, operations, or functionalities of Kubernetes:

• Creation and management of containers in Kubernetes
• Kubernetes API Objects (Pods, ReplicaSets, Deployments, Services)
• Kubernetes namespaces and Container Network Interface (CNI) plug-ins

Cloud Orchestration with OpenShift

Identify the concepts, operations, or functionalities of OpenShift:

• Creation, management, and monitoring of OpenShift workloads
• Navigation of the OpenShift CLI or WebUI
• Node types (provisioner and control plane)
• Network types (routable, provisioning, management)

Cloud-Native Contrail Networking (CN2)

Identify the concepts, operations, or functionalities of CN2:

• Architecture (inter-component communications)
• Orchestrator integration
• CN2 features
• Basic configuration