This Cisco self-paced course is designed to be as effective as classroom training. Course content is presented in easily-consumable segments via both Instructor Video and text. Interactivity is enabled through Discovery Labs, content review questions, and graded Challenge labs and tests. This makes the learning experience hands-on, increasing course effectiveness, and provides students direct feedback on how well they have mastered the material. And gamification features are built in, including earning badges and a leaderboard, to encourage better performance.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Describe common cloud characteristics
- Describe and identify the cloud service models
- Describe and compare cloud deployment models
- Identify cloud deployment decision factors
- Identify and illustrate key features of UCS
- Define server virtualization
- Describe network architectures for the data center
- Identify infrastructure virtualization
- Analyze and identify storage provisioning concepts
- Describe and compare the difference between all the storage access technologies
- Describe and compare various reference architectures for converged infrastructure
Target Audience
- Channel Partners
- Customers
- Employees
Course Prerequisites
It is recommended, but not required, that students have the following knowledge and skills before attending this course:
- An understanding of network fundamentals
- An understanding of compute fundamentals
- An understanding of storage fundamentals