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CL-101 Cloud & Platform

Cloud Fundamentals (Multi-Cloud)

A vendor-neutral foundation in how clouds actually work: virtualization, regions and zones, core service families, shared responsibility, and pricing mental models — taught across AWS, Azure and GCP simultaneously so learners form transferable concepts, not one vendor's vocabulary.

B1Aware
5modules
35skill atoms
14role journeys
Curriculum

What this course covers.

5 modules, 35 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1Cloud Mental Models7 skill atoms
virtualizationregions/AZselasticity economicscontrol plane vs data planefailure domains & blast radiuscapex to opex shiftshared tenancy basics
2Core Service Families7 skill atoms
computestoragenetworkdatabase mapped across 3 cloudsEC2 vs Azure VM vs Compute EngineS3 vs Blob vs Cloud StorageVPC vs VNet naming map
3Shared Responsibility7 skill atoms
who secures whatcommon misconception drillsIaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS responsibility linesguest OS patching ownershipbucket public-access defaultsencryption at rest vs in transitprovider vs customer key ownership
4Accounts & Cost Basics7 skill atoms
org structurestaggingreading a billAWS Organizations vs management groups vs GCP folderson-demand vs reserved vs spot pricingdata egress chargesbudget alerts
5First Deployments7 skill atoms
launch the same app on two cloudscompareconsole vs CLI pathssecurity group vs NSG rule creationpublic IP & DNS name assignmentresource teardown disciplinecost delta write-up
Where it fits

CL-101 in the role journeys.

This course appears in 14 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Cloud Engineer

Foundation stage
starts hereCL-101CL-102

Cloud / Solutions Architect

Foundation stage
CL-221CL-101CL-202

Platform / DevOps Engineer

Foundation stage
CL-304CL-101CL-305

Site Reliability Engineer

Foundation stage
CL-305CL-101CL-401

Cloud Network Engineer

Foundation stage
CL-104CL-101CL-203

Data Platform Engineer

Foundation stage
AI-105CL-101CL-204

FinOps Analyst

Foundation stage
starts hereCL-101CL-201

Multi-Cloud Engineer

Foundation stage
starts hereCL-101CL-102

Cloud Security Engineer

Foundation stage
SEC-201CL-101SEC-202

Data Engineer

Foundation stage
AI-101CL-101AI-102

Enterprise Architect

Foundation stage
starts hereCL-101AI-101

Cloud Migration Architect

Foundation stage
starts hereCL-101CL-106

Platform Engineer (IDP)

Foundation stage
starts hereCL-101CL-102

Data Cloud Engineer (Snowflake)

Foundation stage
starts hereCL-101AI-105

Roles this course serves

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B1.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence
B1
AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance
Knowledge checks
B2
FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts
Guided labs, autograded exercises
B3
PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently
Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams
B4
ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes
Break-fix drills, design defenses
B5
AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others
Rubric-scored capstones, vivas
B6
ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams
Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

Next step

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