About this Course
This course describes how to monitor and operate a cloud with Microsoft System Center 2012 R2. This course focuses on how to manage and administer a cloud environment, and it describes how you can monitor key infrastructure elements and applications that run within a cloud. It does not discuss planning and implementation, which is covered in 20247: Configuring and Deploying a Cloud with System Center 2012 R2.
Audience Profile
This course is intended for cloud administrators who are responsible for monitoring and protecting the cloud infrastructure. It is also intended for solution architects who are responsible for designing cloud architectures and extending existing cloud solutions. The primary audience for this course is administrators who create service requests.
At Course Completion
After completing this course students will be able to:


• Describe the Cloud Model.
• Configure and optimize a Private Cloud.
• Deploy Cloud Services.
• Monitor Cloud Services.
• Configure Application Performance Monitoring in a Cloud Environment.
• Operate and extend Service Management in in a Cloud Environment.
• Automate Incident Creation, Remediation, and Change Requests in a Cloud Environment.
• Perform Problem Management in a Cloud Environment.
• Operate a Self-Service, Multi-Tenant Cloud with Windows Azure Pack.
• Configure High Availability, Protection and Recovery in a Cloud Environment.
• Optimize the Cloud Infrastructure.
• Configure SLAs, Dashboards, and Widgets in a Cloud Environment.