List the assessment methods to be used and the context and resources required for assessment. Copy and paste the relevant sections from the evidence guide below and then re-write these in plain English.
The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, and to:
design and implement at least one fault tolerant cloud infrastructure on a cloud platform resilient to networking, compute, storage, database and data centre failures
design and deploy automated infrastructure scaling for at least one business need
simulate failures of at least one component and demonstrate is fault tolerant.
In the course of the above, the candidate must:
use cloud management console, software development kits or command line tools
define, monitor and record resource availability in cloud environment, including:
reliability
recoverability
service levels
scalability.
The candidate must demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit. This includes knowledge of:
industry technology standards used in cloud computing solutions and services
current industry standard hardware and software products, their general features, capabilities and application, including storage technology
different cloud cost models as they relate to scalability of cloud infrastructure
definitions, functions, features and uses of different cloud infrastructure resources as they apply in cloud architecture to high availability, including:
fault tolerance and single points of failure
reliability as defined by mean time to failure (MTTF), to repair (MTTR) and between failures (MTBF)
recoverability as measured by recovery time (RTO) and recovery point (RPO) objectives
service level agreements (SLAs)
vertical and horizontal scalability
testing and debugging techniques, including techniques to avoid single point failures
tools and techniques to measure availability impact
features of cloud services, including differences between built-in fault tolerance and infrastructure designed for fault tolerance
purpose and features of load balancing and autoscaling as related to improve availability within cloud environment
techniques, methods and industry standard metrics used to monitor performance of cloud resources.
Skills in this unit must be demonstrated in a workplace or simulated environment where the conditions are typical of those in a working environment in this industry.
This includes access to:
cloud vendor service provider
cloud managed database service
information and data sources required to design and implement cloud infrastructure
integrated development environment (IDE)
specific requirements and industry standards, organisational procedures and legislative requirements, including business and functionality requirements, as required
internet and web browser
secure shell (SSH) or remote desktop protocol (RDP) client to connect to cloud-hosted instances
data to gather information from to determine output and user requirements, including user access and business protocols.
Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational education and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.