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CL-103 Cloud & Platform

Networking Fundamentals for the Cloud Era

From packets to VPCs: IP addressing and subnetting drilled to fluency, routing, DNS, TLS, and load balancing — then immediately mapped onto cloud constructs so learners can reason about any cloud network diagram from first principles.

B2Foundation
5modules
34skill atoms
3role journeys
Curriculum

What this course covers.

5 modules, 34 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1IP & Subnetting Fluency7 skill atoms
CIDR drillsaddress planningroute tablesVLSM splitsRFC1918 allocation strategyoverlapping CIDR conflictsprovider-reserved IPs per subnet
2How Traffic Moves7 skill atoms
switching vs routingNATfirewallsARP & MAC learninglongest-prefix matchSNAT vs DNATstateful vs stateless rules
3DNS Deeply7 skill atoms
resolution chainrecordsTTL behaviourA/AAAA/CNAME/ALIAS distinctionsrecursive vs authoritative resolverssplit-horizon private zonesdig +trace diagnosis
4TLS & Load Balancing7 skill atoms
handshakescertificatesL4 vs L7SNI routingchain of trust & intermediatestermination vs passthroughhealth checks & connection draining
5Cloud Mapping Lab6 skill atoms
translate an on-prem diagram to VPC/VNet designVLAN to subnet mappingDMZ to public/private tiersappliance firewall to security groups/NSGshardware LB to ALB/Application Gatewaydefault route via NAT gateway
Where it fits

CL-103 in the role journeys.

This course appears in 3 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Cloud Engineer

Foundation stage
CL-102CL-103CL-104

Cloud Network Engineer

Foundation stage
starts hereCL-103CL-104

Multi-Cloud Engineer

Foundation stage
CL-102CL-103CL-104

Roles this course serves

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B2.

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

Run CL-103 for your team.

This course runs at several lengths depending on how deep you need to go and how much of it your people already have. Tell us who is being trained and we will scope it.

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