Unit of competency Outline

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Manage infrastructure in cloud environments

Manage infrastructure in cloud environments

Unit of competency
National Code
ICTCLD508
State Code
OBV19
TGA Status
Current
DTWD Status
Approved
Current Release Number
1.00
Current Release Date
21/07/2020
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State Implementation and Classification
Approved Date
15/01/2021
Field of Education
020103 - Programming
Original Release Date
15/01/2021
Nominal Hours
45
Description
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to configure, monitor, maintain and update resources running in a cloud environment. It applies to cloud engineers, cloud systems administrators and those who work within cloud computing environments and responsible for the day-to-day running of cloud resources.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Notes
Elements and Performance Criteria
1. Prepare to manage cloud resources
  • 1.1 Determine complex cloud computing technology resources according to business requirements, needs and cloud environment
  • 1.2 Identify and confirm business purpose, use and plan of different cloud resources according to business needs and efficiencies
2. Inventory and change management of cloud resources
  • 2.1 Identify tagging policy and categorise resources according to business needs
  • 2.2 Update resources according to tagging policy and build and maintain inventory of cloud resources
  • 2.3 Generate report of resources based on category
  • 2.4 Conduct maintenance with resources in specific category
  • 2.5 Document resource tagging and inventory management according to business needs
3. Audit and change management of cloud resources
  • 3.1 Identify configuration policy for cloud resources according to business needs
  • 3.2 Enable logging of cloud-based events
  • 3.3 Collect and track changes to cloud resource configuration
  • 3.4 Apply configuration policy to resource and alert for non-conformance
  • 3.5 Utilise audit logs and determine details and changes from configuration
  • 3.6 Document cloud audit and change management configuration
4. Monitoring, logging and alarming
  • 4.1 Define capacity limits for cloud resources according to business needs
  • 4.2 Configure metrics and alarm when limits are exceeded
  • 4.3 Capture and store resource and system logs
  • 4.4 Test capacity to trigger alarms and review logs of incident
  • 4.5 Manage capacity of resource to remove alarm
  • 4.6 Document run book for actions according to configured alarm
5. Manage storage lifecycle
  • 5.1 Identify data retention policy according to business needs and cloud resource
  • 5.2 Configure storage to automatically comply with retention policy
  • 5.3 Confirm that retention policy is applied to target storage
  • 5.4 Document storage configuration according to business needs
6. Monitor and track complex cloud resources
  • 6.1 Document mechanisms to automate tasks as required
  • 6.2 Finalise user documentation and submit to required personnel as required
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