Module 1: Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Guided Labs

Lab 1: Account and Identity Boundary

Design separate workload and administrative identities, short-lived CI federation, least-privilege policies, and an emergency path. Test allowed and denied actions.

Lab 2: Network and Failure-Zone Model

Build or model multi-zone public ingress and private workloads/data. Verify routes and traffic rules; simulate one-zone loss.

Lab 3: Service and Cost Decision

Compare compute/storage/database choices with current pricing-calculator estimates or local substitutes. Set budget alerts before cloud use.

Lab 4: Teardown Drill

Inventory chargeable resources, destroy them, and verify absence of load balancers, NAT, disks, snapshots, IPs, and retained logs.

Evidence: diagrams, policy tests, cost estimate, alert proof, failure trace, and teardown record.

Failure-domain extension

Complete the 20–30-hour failure-domain package and CF1–CF6 assessment. Reuse original identity, topology, service-choice, cost and teardown evidence. The local Python model requires no account or spending and does not prove provider behavior.