Cloud administration fundamentals
Load analysis and capacity planning
Administration technologies
Cloud resource provisioning
Virtual storage
Cloud market administration

Concepts, benefits, risks and challenges
Concepts of « elastic »
administration Concepts of evolutionary administration

Interests and benefits
Associated risks
The different categories
Strategic plan

Verification and Compliance Controls
Cloud Service Level Management
Measurement and Billing
Compliance and Authorization Management

Business continuity considerations and best practices applied to the cloud

Disaster recovery considerations and associated best practices

Threats and vulnerability
Security administration: digital signatures, access and identity management, encryption, etc.
Importance of safety standards

Concepts, benefits, challenges and best practices associated with centralized identity management
From systems management to quality of service
Network, system and storage
administration technologies Service level management for the Cloud
Administration of Cloud service capacities

Reducing operating costs by controlling complexity in the cloud
Improving performance in the cloud
Key performance indicators
Optimizing resources to focus on critical business tasks
Administering resource usage in the cloud
Metrics measure for billing

Passing the Professional Cloud Administrator (PCA) exam 

The exam is taken on the last day, online and in English. It consists of answering 25 questions based on a scenario, in 75 minutes (15 minutes of additional time are foreseen for non-English speaking candidates). A minimum score of 65% is required to pass the exam