Unit of competency
Modification History
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Release 1 |
This version first released with ICT Information and Communications Technology Training Package Version 6.0. |
Application
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.
Unit Sector
Cloud computing
Elements and Performance Criteria
ELEMENTS |
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
Elements describe the essential outcomes. |
Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
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 |
Foundation Skills
This section describes those language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills that are essential to performance but not explicit in the performance criteria.
S KILL |
DESCRIPTION |
Numeracy |
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Reading |
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Writing |
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Planning and organising |
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Self-management |
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Unit Mapping Information
No equivalent unit. New unit.
Links
Companion Volume Implementation Guide is found on VETNet - https://vetnet.gov.au/Pages/TrainingDocs.aspx?q=a53af4e4-b400-484e-b778-71c9e9d6aff2