CompTIA Cloud+ Practice Test

Skills this practice test covers

• Compare public, private, hybrid and multi-cloud models for a given business need.
• Analyze system requirements, then migrate a workload and provision it with infrastructure as code.
• Set up observability, scaling, and backup and recovery for cloud resources.
• Control access with identity and access management and meet standards such as PCI DSS.
• Build a CI/CD pipeline with source control and tools such as Ansible or Jenkins.
• Troubleshoot failed deployments, connectivity faults and misconfigurations in the cloud.

6 domains · 14 topics · 218 of 454 questions are written for CV0-004

Requirements

• No formal prerequisites: anyone can book the exam.
• Recommended: two to three years of hands-on work as a systems administrator or cloud engineer.
• Recommended: CompTIA Network+ and CompTIA Security+, or the same knowledge.
• Recommended: working knowledge of at least one major cloud provider, such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

About the CV0-004 exam

How to earn the certification

Earns

CompTIA Cloud+Intermediate

The certification lasts three years. Continuing education units or a higher CompTIA certification renew it.

Before

• N10-009 CompTIA Network+

  Recommended knowledge for the cloud networking and connectivity questions.

• SY0-701 CompTIA Security+

  Recommended knowledge for the Security domain, from IAM to compliance standards.

After

• CNX-001 CompTIA CloudNetX

  CompTIA's expert-level exam on networks that span on-premises sites and public clouds. CompTIA recommends Cloud+ knowledge before it.

• CAS-005 CompTIA SecurityX

  CompTIA's advanced security exam, a route toward security architecture work.

• CS0-004 CompTIA CySA+

  The cybersecurity analyst exam, an option for those who move into threat detection and response.

How to prepare for CV0-004

1. 1

   Sort the objectives by hands-on gaps

   Get the CV0-004 exam objectives from CompTIA and list every bullet under its domain. Mark each task never done by hand, such as writing a template or reading a pipeline log.

2. 2

   Deploy one app in a single provider

   Pick AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and deploy a small app with a template, a load balancer and autoscaling. Then name each service by the vendor-neutral term that CompTIA's objectives use.

3. 3

   Push a change through a pipeline

   Keep the template in source control and let a CI/CD pipeline test and deploy each change. This one exercise touches most of the DevOps Fundamentals domain.

4. 4

   Create faults, then trace them back

   Change a DNS record, a security group or a permission on purpose, then trace the symptom back to its cause. The Troubleshooting domain covers these faults, along with leaked credentials and failed deployments.

5. 5

   Compare domain scores with their weights

   Take the CV0-004 practice test in Timed Mode once all six domains are covered. Compare the score in each domain with that domain's weight, and give the largest gaps the most time.

   Start a timed CV0-004run

CompTIA prepares candidates with CertMaster Perform, CertMaster Labs and CertMaster Practice for Cloud+. CertMaster Perform combines lessons with live and simulation labs.

Who CV0-004 is for

• Systems administrators who now run part of their infrastructure in a public cloud.
• Cloud engineers who want a certification that is not tied to one provider.
• Network operations staff and IT managers who plan or support cloud services.
• DevOps engineers who want their cloud operations skills certified.

Typical job titles: Cloud engineer · Systems administrator · Cloud specialist · Systems engineer · DevOps engineer · IT manager

CV0-004 glossary

18 terms from the exam objectives and the vendor's official material, each defined in a sentence.

CI/CD pipelines

Automated steps that build, test and deploy code each time a change is committed: continuous integration and continuous deployment.

Container security

Protecting containerized applications, the images they are built from, and the hosts they run on.

Containerization

Packaging an application with everything it needs to run, so that it behaves the same on any host.

Event-driven architectures

Designs in which a component acts when an event occurs, such as a file upload, instead of running on a schedule.

Identity and access management (IAM)

The policies and tools that decide who can sign in and which cloud resources each user or service may use.

Infrastructure as code (IaC)

Describing cloud resources in files, such as templates, so a tool can create and change them without manual steps.

Lifecycle management

Managing cloud resources from creation through scaling and updates to removal.

Multi-cloud

Using services from more than one cloud provider in one environment, often to avoid depending on a single vendor.

Observability

The ability to see how a system behaves from its logs, metrics and traces, so problems can be found quickly.

Orchestration

Automated management of many containers, such as starting, scaling and replacing them. Kubernetes is a common example.

PCI DSS

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, a set of security rules for systems that store or process card data.

Performance-based questions

Exam items that ask the candidate to carry out a task, such as fixing a setting, in a simulated system.

Privilege escalation

An attack or flaw that gives a user or process more access rights than it should have.

Resource provisioning

Creating and configuring cloud resources, such as virtual machines or storage, so that a workload can run.

Source control

A system, such as Git, that records every change to code and templates so a team can work on them together.

Virtualization

Running several virtual machines, each with its own operating system, on one physical host.

Vulnerability management

The repeating cycle of finding, ranking and fixing security weaknesses in systems.

Workload migrations

Moving applications and their data from one environment, such as an on-premises data center, into a cloud.