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Ian Neil is one of the world's top trainers of Security+. He is able to break down information into manageable chunks so that people with no background knowledge can gain the skills required to become certified. He has recently worked for the US Army in Europe and designed a Security+ course that catered to people from all backgrounds (not just IT professionals), with an extremely successful pass rate. He is an MCT, MCSE, A+, Network+, Security+, CASP, and RESILIA practitioner that has worked with high-end training providers over the past 23 years and was one of the first technical trainers to train Microsoft internal staff when they opened their Bucharest Office in 2006.
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Chapter 4 – Exploring Virtualization and Cloud Concepts

  1. Elasticity allows you to increase and decrease cloud resources as you need them.
  2. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) requires you to install the operating systems and patch the machines. The CSP provides bare-metal computers.
  3. SaaS is a custom application written by a vendor, and you cannot migrate to it.
  4. The major benefit of a public cloud is that there is no capital expenditure.
  5. A private cloud is a single-tenant setup in which you either own the hardware or the CSP puts you on hardware that's isolated from its other customers.
  6. A public cloud is multi-tenant.
  7. With a community cloud, people from the same industry (such as a group of lawyers) design and share the cost of a bespoke application and its hosting, making it cost-effective.
  8. The CSP is responsible for hardware failure.
  9. The CASB enforces security, updates clients, and ensures that the policies between the on-premises situation...
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Ian Neil is one of the world's top trainers of Security+. He is able to break down information into manageable chunks so that people with no background knowledge can gain the skills required to become certified. He has recently worked for the US Army in Europe and designed a Security+ course that catered to people from all backgrounds (not just IT professionals), with an extremely successful pass rate. He is an MCT, MCSE, A+, Network+, Security+, CASP, and RESILIA practitioner that has worked with high-end training providers over the past 23 years and was one of the first technical trainers to train Microsoft internal staff when they opened their Bucharest Office in 2006.
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