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The Cloud Architecture course provides comprehensive coverage of cloud-based environment design techniques and architecture models. It delves into cloud platform technology architecture, exploring mechanisms and design patterns that encompass containerization. Advanced topics cover complex cloud solution design, including hybrid cloud deployment models, compound design patterns and architectures spanning cloud and on-premise environments.

Complete the Cloud Architecture course and, optionally, get accredited as a Certified Cloud Architect by passing the certification exam. You can purchase the course now and get the exam later, or you can get them together at a discount as part of the Certification Bundle.

Upon completing the course you will receive a digital certificate of completion, as well as a digital training badge from Acclaim/Credly. Because this course encompasses both the Cloud Professional and Cloud Architect certifications, upon passing the exam you will also receive official Cloud Professional and Cloud Architect digital accreditation certificates and certification badges from Acclaim/Credly, along with an account that can be used to verify your certification status.

If you already completed the Cloud Professional course modules, you can purchase a partial course (or a partial bundle) with only the modules specific to the Cloud Architect track here.

The Cloud Architecture course is comprised of the following 5 course modules, each of which has an estimated completion time of 10 hours:

  • Module 1: Fundamental Cloud Computing
  • Module 2: Cloud Technology Concepts
  • Module 4: Fundamental Cloud Architecture
  • Module 5: Advanced Cloud Architecture
  • Module 6: Cloud Architecture Lab

Choose the Certification Bundle to receive the entire course together with the online-proctored certification exam and a set of practice exam questions, all at a bundle discount.

Exam Details

Upon purchasing this course, you will automatically receive access via the Online Interactive eLearning platform. To provide you with the greatest flexibility, you will also have the option to access the course materials via two additional eLearning formats, at no extra cost. All three eLearning formats are briefly described below. A more detailed comparison can be found here.
  1. For everyday learning: An online interactive eLearning platform with individual lessons, as well as interactive and automatically graded exercises and practice questions.
  2. For learning on-the-go: A study kit platform with access to full course documents that support online/offline synching, annotations, comments, custom bookmarks and cross-document searches.
  3. For your reference: A set of printable PDF documents that you can keep (for all course workbooks and posters).
All three forms of access are subject to Arcitura’s *. Upon purchase, access to the online interactive eLearning platform (1) is provided within one business day. Access to the study kits (2) and the PDF documents (3) is provided upon request.

The course is comprised of a set of modules. Each module has a set of lessons and is further supplemented with exercises to help reinforce your understanding of key topics. Shown below are the digital contents and the topic outline for each course module:


Module 1: Fundamental Cloud Computing

This course module provides end-to-end coverage of fundamental cloud computing topics as they pertain to both technology and business considerations. The module content is divided into a series of modular sections, each of which is accompanied by one or more hands-on exercises.


Course Module Contents


  • Workbook Lessons (100+ pages)
  • Video Lessons (for all topics)
  • Interactive Exercises

  • Mind Map Poster
  • Symbol Legend Poster
  • Practice Exam Questions
  • PDFs of Workbook and Posters (printable)

Topics Covered

  • Fundamental Cloud Computing Terminology and Concepts
  • Basics of Virtualization
  • Specific Characteristics that Define a Cloud
  • Understanding Elasticity, Resiliency, On-Demand and Measured Usage
  • Benefits, Challenges and Risks of Contemporary Cloud Computing Platforms and Cloud Services
  • Cloud Resource Administrator and Cloud Service Owner Roles
  • Cloud Service and Cloud Service Consumer Roles
  • Understanding the Software as a Service (SaaS) Cloud Delivery Model

  • Understanding the Platform as a Service (PaaS) Cloud Delivery Model
  • Understanding the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud Delivery Model
  • Combining Cloud Delivery Models
  • Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud and Community Cloud Deployment Models
  • Business Cost Metrics and Formulas for Comparing and Calculating Cloud and On-Premise Solution Costs
  • Formulas for Calculating and Rating SLA Quality of Service Characteristics

Module 2: Cloud Technology Concepts

This course module explores a range of the most important and relevant technology-related topics that pertain to contemporary cloud computing platforms. The module content does not get into implementation or programming details, but instead keeps coverage at a conceptual level, focusing on topics that address cloud service architecture, cloud security threats and technologies, virtualization and containerization.


Course Module Contents


  • Workbook Lessons (100+ pages)
  • Video Lessons (for all topics)
  • Interactive Exercises

  • Mind Map Poster
  • Practice Exam Questions
  • PDFs of Workbook and Poster (printable)

Topics Covered

  • Cloud Computing Mechanisms that Establish Architectural Building Blocks
  • Virtual Servers, Containers, Ready-Made Environments, Failover Systems and Pay-Per-Use Monitors
  • Automated Scaling Listeners, Multi-Device Brokers and Resource Replication
  • Understanding How Individual Cloud Computing Mechanisms Support Cloud Characteristics
  • An Introduction to Containerization, Container Hosting and Logical Pod Containers
  • A Comparison of Containerization and Virtualization
  • Cloud Balancing and Cloud Bursting Architectures
  • Common Risks, Threats and Vulnerabilities of Cloud-based Services and Cloud-hosted Solutions

  • Cloud Security Mechanisms used to Counter Threats and Attacks
  • Understanding Cloud-Based Security Groups and Hardened Virtual Server Images
  • Cloud Service Implementation Mediums (including Web Services and REST Services)
  • Cloud Storage Benefits and Challenges, Cloud Storage Services, Technologies and Approaches
  • Non-Relational (NoSQL) Storage Compared to Relational Storage
  • Cloud Service Testing Considerations and Testing Types
  • Service Grids and Autonomic Computing
  • Cloud Computing Industry Standards Organizations

Module 4: Fundamental Cloud Architecture

This course module provides provides a technical drill-down into the inner workings and mechanics of foundational cloud computing platforms. Private and public cloud environments are dissected into concrete, componentized building blocks (referred to as “patterns”) that individually represent platform feature-sets, functions and/or artifacts, and are collectively applied to establish distinct technology architecture layers.


Course Module Contents


  • Workbook Lessons (100+ pages)
  • Video Lessons (for all topics)
  • Interactive Exercises
  • Mind Map Poster

  • Pattern and Mechanism Mapping Posters
  • Containerization Patterns Supplement
  • Practice Exam Questions
  • PDFs of Workbook and Posters (printable)

Topics Covered

  • Understanding the Technology Architecture of Private Clouds and Public Clouds
  • Understanding the Technology Architecture of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS Environments
  • Automated Administration and Centralized Remote Administration
  • Container Sidecars and Container Chains
  • Self-Provisioning and Platform Provisioning
  • Rich Containers and Logical Pod Containers
  • Bare-Metal Provisioning and Resource Management

  • Single-Node Multi-Containers and Multipath Resource Access
  • Usage Monitoring and Broad Access
  • Realtime Resource Availability and Pay-as-You-Go
  • Shared Resources and Resource Pooling
  • Rapid Provisioning and Resource Reservation
  • Non-Disruptive Service Relocation and Service State Management
  • Workload Distribution and Dynamic Scalability

Module 5: Advanced Cloud Architecture

This course module builds upon CCP Module 4 to provide a deep dive into elastic, resilient, multitenant and containerized technology architectures, as well as specialized solution architectures, such as cloud bursting and cloud balancing.


Course Module Contents


  • Workbook Lessons (100+ pages)
  • Video Lessons (for all topics)
  • Interactive Exercises
  • Mind Map Poster

  • Pattern and Mechanism Mapping Posters
  • Containerization Patterns II Supplement
  • Practice Exam Questions
  • PDFs of Workbook and Posters (printable)

Topics Covered

  • Understanding the Technology Architecture of Elastic, Resilient, Multitenant and Containerized Environments
  • Elastic Resource Capacity and Elastic Network Capacity
  • Multi-Container Isolation Control and Volatile Container Configuration
  • Serverless Deployment and Elastic Disk Provisioning
  • Leader Node Election and Micro Scatter-Gather
  • Hypervisor Clustering and Redundant Storage
  • Storage Service Gateway and Live Storage Migration
  • LUN Storage and LUN Migration
  • Dynamic Failure Detection and Recovery and Zero Downtime
  • Service Load Balancing and Load Balanced Virtual Server Instances

  • Load Balanced Virtual Switches and Persistent Virtual Network Configurations
  • Dynamic Data Normalization and Synchronized Operating State
  • Intra-Storage Device Vertical Tiering and Cross-Storage Device Vertical Tiering
  • Storage Workload Management and Storage Maintenance Window
  • Direct I/O Access and Direct LUN Access
  • Redundant Physical Connection for Virtual Servers
  • Cloud Bursting, including Burst In and Burst Out to Private/Public Clouds
  • Cloud Balancing

Module 6: Cloud Architecture Lab

This course module presents participants with a series of exercises and problems that are designed to test their ability to apply their knowledge of topics covered in previous modules. Completing this lab will help highlight areas that require further attention and will help prove proficiency in cloud computing design patterns, technology architecture layers, mechanisms, industry technologies and practices as they are applied and combined to solve real-world problems.


Course Module Contents


  • Lab Exercise Booklet
  • Mind Map Poster
  • Pattern and Mechanism Mapping Poster
  • Lab Exercise Architectural Solution Poster
  • Lab Exercise 6.2 and 6.3 Poster

  • Lab Exercise 6.6 and 6.7 Poster
  • Lab Exercise 6.9 Poster
  • Practice Exam Questions
  • PDFs of Exercises Booklet and Posters (printable)

Topics Covered

  • Reading Exercise 6.1: Case Study Background XIT
  • Lab Exercise 6.2: IaaS Environment Setup
  • Lab Exercise 6.3: IaaS Architecture Customization
  • Lab Exercise 6.4: Cloud Characteristics
  • Reading Exercise 6.5: Case Study Background Sport Blips

  • Lab Exercise 6.6: High-Performance Cloud Architecture
  • Lab Exercise 6.7: Performance Optimization
  • Lab Exercise 6.8: Cloud Characteristics
  • Reading and Lab Exercise 6.9: High-Connectivity Cloud Architecture

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