Book excerpt: &>CCNA Cloud CLDFND Official Cert Guide is a comprehensive self-study guide that provides a thorough coverage of all topics from the exam's blueprint. The book explores concepts, features, and designs to provide an adequate understanding about cloud environments and their particular infrastructure requirements. It also follows a logical order and practical approach, both designed to offer the reader a gradual and rich experience. At first sight, both CCNA Cloud and CCNA Data Center certifications may appear to share a considerable number of topics related to Cisco Data Center portfolio. However, this book presents these products and technologies through a "cloud perspective", highlighting how these solutions fulfill basic cloud computing requirements, such as automation and standardization. CCNA Cloud CLDADM Official Cert Guide is a self-study guide all of the topics from the corresponding Cisco exam's blueprint. This book delves in to the many operational and administrative processes and tasks that would be required to successfully operate a Cisco Cloud environment. By providing an operational spin on Cloud, it compliments other technology focused books by drilling down into the practical skills needed for the care feeding and feeding of your company's cloud deployment. The book is broken up into 4 sections. The first section starts with foundational topics that level set the reader on key concepts and background necessary to provide context on why cloud is important to transform into an agile, flexible, and operationally efficient business. Section 2 provides an overview of the Cisco technology and software suites relevant to the exam. Section 3 delves into Cloud administration and operations concepts like deploying virtual machines and application containers, managing role based access control, services catalogs, and reporting and chargeback systems. Section 4 closes out the book by exploring cloud monitoring, capacity planning, and remediation methodologies.