Ccna Cloud Cldfnd 210-451 Official Cert Guide

This is Cisco's official, comprehensive self-study resource for preparing for the new CCNA Cloud certification exam. Designed for all CCNA Cloud candidates, it covers every objective concisely and logically, with extensive teaching features designed to promote retention and understanding. You'll find:

• Pre-chapter quizzes to assess knowledge upfront and focus your study more efficiently
• Foundation topics sections that explain concepts and configurations, and link theory to practice
• Key topics sections calling attention to every figure, table, and list you must know
• Exam Preparation sections with additional chapter review features
• Final preparation chapter providing tools and a complete final study plan
• A customizable practice test library

This guide's comprehensive, up-to-date coverage includes:

• Cloud computing definitions, service models, advantages, and implications
• Administering the cloud: balancing security, control, and cost
• Cloud consolidation, virtualization, standardization, automation, and programming
• Managing server virtualization, cloud workloads, and virtual/cloud networking
• Architecting efficient and flexible clouds
• Provisioning reliable cloud storage
• Implementing Cisco UCS Unified Computing for the Cloud
• Improving modularity and predictability with Cisco Validated Designs (CVD)
• Utilizing FlexPod, Vblock, VSPEX, and Cisco UCS for RedHat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform (UCSO)
• And much more

Gustavo A. A. Santana, CCIE No. 8806, is the author of Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals (CiscoPress, 2013) and a Cisco Technical Solutions Architect working in enterprise and service provider data center projects that require a greater integration among multiple technology areas such as networking, application optimization, storage, and servers.

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With more than 18 years of experience in the data center industry, Gustavo has led and coordinated a team of specialized Cisco engineers in Brazil. A true believer of education as a technology catalyst, he has also dedicated himself to the technical development of many IT professionals from customer, partner, and strategic alliance organizations. In addition to holding three CCIE certifications (Data Center, Storage Networking, and Routing & Switching), Gustavo is an SNIA Certified Storage Networking Expert (SCSN-E). A frequent speaker at Cisco Live and data center industry events, he holds a degree in computer engineering from Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA-Brazil) and an MBA in strategic IT management from Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV-Brazil). Gustavo maintains a personal blog in which he discusses topics related to data center virtualization technologies at http://gustavoaasantana.net.