Exam Essentials

Know the common systems that need ongoing patch management. The most common systems that are operating in the cloud are hypervisors, virtual machines, virtual appliances, software applications, and clustered systems. Also, networking components, such as switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls, NAT systems, and many others, will need to be patched to remain current and secure. Storage systems are also included here.

Differentiate between the different types of updates. You can expect the exam to ask you questions about the different types of updates. An update procedure will be described in the question, and you will need to identify what type of update it is. It is important that you are able to distinguish the differences between these types such as blue-green, rolling updates, production, development, and QA.

Understand automation and the basic support operations that can be performed. Automation systems play an important role in cloud computing. You need to know...