CompTIA Cloud+

Certification Exam
Objectives
EXAM NUMBER: CV0-003
About the Exam
Candidates are encouraged to use this document to help prepare for the CompTIA
Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification exam. The CompTIA Cloud+ certification exam will
verify the successful candidate has the knowledge and skills required to:
• Understand cloud architecture and design
• Deploy cloud services and solutions
• Successfully maintain, secure, and optimize a cloud environment
• Troubleshoot common issues related to cloud management
This is equivalent to 2—3 years of hands-on experience working in a systems administrator job role.
These content examples are meant to clarify the test objectives and should not be
construed as a comprehensive listing of all the content of this examination.

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TEST DETAILS
Required exam CV0-003
Number of questions Maximum of 90
Types of questions Multiple choice and performance-based
Length of test 90 minutes
Recommended experience • At least 2—3 years of work experience in IT
systems administration or IT networking
• CompTIA Network+ and Server+ or equivalent knowledge
• Familiarity with any major hypervisor
technology for server virtualization
• Knowledge of cloud service models
• Knowledge of IT service management
• Hands-on experience with at least one
public or private cloud IaaS platform

Passing score 750 (on a scale of 100—900)

EXAM OBJECTIVES (DOMAINS)

The table below lists the domains measured by this examination
and the extent to which they are represented:

DOMAIN PERCENTAGE OF EXAMINATION

1.0 Cloud Architecture and Design 13%

2.0 Security 20%
3.0 Deployment 23%
4.0 Operations and Support 22%
5.0 Troubleshooting 22%
Total 100%

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 1.0 Cloud Architecture and Design
1.1 Compare and contrast the different types of cloud models.
• Deployment models • Service models • Shared responsibility model
- Public - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Private - Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Hybrid - Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Community • Advanced cloud services
- Cloud within a cloud - Internet of Things (IoT)
- Multicloud - Serverless
- Multitenancy - Machine learning/
Artificial intelligence (AI)

1.2 Explain the factors that contribute to capacity planning.

• Requirements • User density
- Hardware • System load
- Software • Trend analysis
- Budgetary - Baselines
- Business need analysis - Patterns
• Standard templates - Anomalies
• Licensing • Performance capacity planning
- Per-user
- Socket-based
- Volume-based
- Core-based
- Subscription

1.3 Explain the importance of high availability

and scaling in cloud environments.
• Hypervisors • Applications • Avoid single points of failure
- Affinity • Containers • Scalability
- Anti-affinity • Clusters - Auto-scaling
• Oversubscription • High availability of network functions - Horizontal scaling
- Compute - Switches - Vertical scaling
- Network - Routers - Cloud bursting
- Storage - Load balancers
• Regions and zones - Firewalls

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1.4 Given a scenario, analyze the solution design in support

of the business requirements.
• Requirement analysis • Environments
- Software - Development
- Hardware - Quality assurance (QA)
- Integration - Staging
- Budgetary - Blue-green
- Compliance - Production
- Service-level agreement (SLA) - Disaster recovery (DR)
- User and business needs • Testing techniques
- Security - Vulnerability testing
- Network requirements - Penetration testing
- Sizing - Performance testing
- Subnetting - Regression testing
- Routing - Functional testing
- Usability testing

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 2.0 Security
2.1 Given a scenario, configure identity and access management.
• Identification and authorization • Directory services • Secret management
- Privileged access management - Lightweight directory • Key management
- Logical access management access protocol (LDAP)
- Account life-cycle management • Federation
- Provision and • Certificate management
deprovision accounts • Multifactor authentication (MFA)
- Access controls • Single sign-on (SSO)
- Role-based - Security assertion
- Discretionary markup language (SAML)
- Non-discretionary • Public key infrastructure (PKI)
- Mandatory

2.2 Given a scenario, secure a network in a cloud environment.

• Network segmentation - Tunneling • Log and event monitoring
- Virtual LAN (VLAN)/Virtual - Secure Shell (SSH) • Network flows
extensible LAN (VXLAN)/ - Layer 2 tunneling protocol (L2TP)/ • Hardening and configuration changes
Generic network virtualization Point-to-point - Disabling unnecessary
encapsulation (GENEVE) tunneling protocol (PPTP) ports and services
- Micro-segmentation - Generic routing - Disabling weak protocols and ciphers
- Tiering encapsulation (GRE) - Firmware upgrades
• Protocols • Network services - Control ingress and egress traffic
- Domain name service (DNS) - Firewalls - Whitelisting or blacklisting
- DNS over HTTPS (DoH)/ - Stateful - Proxy servers
DNS over TLS (DoT) - Stateless - Distributed denial of
- DNS security (DNSSEC) - Web application firewall (WAF) service (DDoS) protection
- Network time protocol (NTP) - Application delivery controller (ADC)
- Network time security (NTS) - Intrusion protection system (IPS)/
- Encryption Intrusion detection system (IDS)
- IPSec - Data loss prevention (DLP)
- Transport layer security (TLS) - Network access control (NAC)
- Hypertext transfer - Packet brokers
protocol secure (HTTPS)

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2.3 Given a scenario, apply the appropriate OS

and application security controls.
• Policies • Hardened baselines • Encryption
- Password complexity - Single function - Application programming
- Account lockout • File integrity interface (API) endpoint
- Application whitelisting • Log and event monitoring - Application
- Software feature • Configuration management - OS
- User/group • Builds - Storage
• User permissions - Stable - Filesystem
• Antivirus/anti-malware/endpoint - Long-term support (LTS) • Mandatory access control
detection and response (EDR) - Beta • Software firewall
• Host-based IDS (HIDS)/ - Canary
Host-based IPS (HIPS) • Operating system (OS) upgrades

2.4 Given a scenario, apply data security and compliance

controls in cloud environments.
• Encryption • Segmentation - Retention
• Integrity • Access control - Destruction
- Hashing algorithms • Impact of laws and regulations - Write once read many
- Digital signatures - Legal hold • Data loss prevention (DLP)
- File integrity monitoring (FIM) • Records management • Cloud access security broker (CASB)
• Classification - Versioning

2.5 Given a scenario, implement measures to meet security requirements.

• Tools - Service availabilities • Risk register
- Vulnerability scanners • Security patches • Prioritization of patch application
- Port scanners - Hot fixes • Deactivate default accounts
• Vulnerability assessment - Scheduled updates • Impacts of security tools on
- Default and common credential scans - Virtual patches systems and services
- Credentialed scans - Signature updates • Effects of cloud service models
- Network-based scans - Rollups on security implementation
- Agent-based scans

2.6 Explain the importance of incident response procedures.

• Preparation • Incident response procedures - Chain of custody
- Documentation - Identification - Post-incident and lessons learned
- Call trees - Scope - Root cause analysis
- Training - Investigation
- Tabletops - Containment, eradication,
- Documented incident and recovery
types/categories - Isolation
- Roles and responsibilities - Evidence acquisition

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 3.0 Deployment
3.1 Given a scenario, integrate components into a cloud solution.
• Subscription services • Provisioning resources • Containers
- File subscriptions - Compute - Configure variables
- Communications - Storage - Configure secrets
- Email - Network - Persistent storage
- Voice over IP (VoIP) • Application • Auto-scaling
- Messaging - Serverless • Post-deployment validation
- Collaboration • Deploying virtual machines
- Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) (VMs) and custom images
- Directory and identity services • Templates
- Cloud resources - OS templates
- IaaS - Solution templates
- PaaS • Identity management
- SaaS

3.2 Given a scenario, provision storage in cloud environments.

• Types • Protocols • Storage system features
- Block - Network file system (NFS) - Compression
- Storage area network (SAN) - Common Internet file system (CIFS) - Deduplication
- Zoning - Internet small computer - Thin provisioning
- File system interface (iSCSI) - Thick provisioning
- Network attached storage (NAS) - Fibre Channel (FC) - Replication
- Object - Non-volatile memory express • User quotas
- Tenants over fabrics (NVMe-oF) • Hyperconverged
- Buckets • Redundant array of • Software-defined storage (SDS)
• Tiers inexpensive disks (RAID)
- Flash -0
- Hybrid -1
- Spinning disks -5
- Long-term -6
• Input/output operations per - 10
second (IOPS) and read/write

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3.3 Given a scenario, deploy cloud networking solutions.

• Services • Virtual routing • Single root input/output
- Dynamic host configuration - Dynamic and static routing virtualization (SR-IOV)
protocol (DHCP) - Virtual network interface • Software-defined network (SDN)
- NTP controller (vNIC)
- DNS - Subnetting
- Content delivery network (CDN) • Network appliances
- IP address management (IPAM) - Load balancers
• Virtual private networks (VPNs) - Firewalls
- Site-to-site • Virtual private cloud (VPC)
- Point-to-point - Hub and spoke
- Point-to-site - Peering
- IPSec • VLAN/VXLAN/GENEVE
- Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)

3.4 Given a scenario, configure the appropriate

compute sizing for a deployment.
• Virtualization • Graphics processing unit (GPU)
- Hypervisors - Virtual
- Type 1 - Shared
- Type 2 - Pass-through
- Simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) • Clock speed/Instructions per cycle (IPC)
- Dynamic allocations • Hyperconverged
- Oversubscription • Memory
• Central processing unit (CPU)/ - Dynamic allocation
virtual CPU (vCPU) - Ballooning

3.5 Given a scenario, perform cloud migrations.

• Physical to virtual (P2V) • Storage migrations
• Virtual to virtual (V2V) - Block
• Cloud-to-cloud migrations - File
- Vendor lock-in - Object
- PaaS or SaaS migrations • Database migrations
- Access control lists (ACLs) - Cross-service migrations
- Firewalls - Relational
- Non-relational

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 4.0 Operations and Support
4.1 Given a scenario, configure logging, monitoring,
and alerting to maintain operational status.
• Logging • Monitoring • Alerting
- Collectors - Baselines - Common messaging methods
- Simple network - Thresholds - Enable/disable alerts
management protocol (SNMP) - Tagging - Maintenance mode
- Syslog - Log scrubbing - Appropriate responses
- Analysis - Performance monitoring - Policies for categorizing
- Severity categorization - Application and communicating alerts
- Audits - Infrastructure components
- Types - Resource utilization
- Access/authentication - Availability
- System - SLA-defined uptime requirements
- Application - Verification of continuous
- Automation monitoring activities
- Trending - Service management tool integration

4.2 Given a scenario, maintain efficient operation of a cloud environment.

• Confirm completion of backups - Networking components • Dashboard and reporting
• Life-cycle management - Applications - Tagging
- Roadmaps  - Storage components - Costs
- Old/current/new versions  - Firmware - Chargebacks
- Upgrading and migrating systems - Software - Showbacks
- Deprecations or end of life - OS - Elasticity usage
• Change management - Policies - Connectivity
• Asset management - n-1 - Latency
- Configuration management - Rollbacks - Capacity
database (CMDB) • Impacts of process - Incidents
• Patching improvements on systems - Health
- Features or enhancements • Upgrade methods - Overall utilization
- Fixes for broken or critical - Rolling upgrades - Availability
infrastructure or applications - Blue-green
- Scope of cloud elements to be patched - Canary
- Hypervisors - Active-passive
- VMs - Development/QA/production/DR
- Virtual appliances

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4.3 Given a scenario, optimize cloud environments.

• Right-sizing • Storage - Edge computing
- Auto-scaling - Tiers  - CDN
- Horizontal scaling - Adaptive optimization • Placement
- Vertical scaling - IOPS - Geographical
- Cloud bursting - Capacity - Cluster placement
• Compute - Deduplication - Redundancy
- CPUs - Compression - Colocation
- GPUs • Network • Device drivers and firmware
- Memory - Bandwidth - Generic
- Containers - Network interface controllers (NICs) - Vendor
- Latency - Open source
- SDN

4.4 Given a scenario, apply proper automation

and orchestration techniques.
• Infrastructure as code • Containers • Secure scripting
- Infrastructure components • Automation activities - No hardcoded passwords
and their integration - Routine operations - Use of individual service accounts
• Continuous integration/ - Updates - Password vaults
continuous deployment (CI/CD) - Scaling - Key-based authentication
• Version control - Shutdowns • Orchestration sequencing
• Configuration management - Restarts
- Playbook - Create internal APIs

4.5 Given a scenario, perform appropriate backup and restore operations.

• Backup types • Backup targets - Mean time to recovery (MTTR)
- Incremental - Tape - 3-2-1 rule
- Differential - Disk - Three copies of data
- Full - Object - Two different media
- Synthetic full • Backup and restore policies - One copy off site
- Snapshot - Retention • Restoration methods
• Backup objects - Schedules - In place
- Application-level backup - Location - Alternate location
- Filesystem backup - SLAs - Restore files
- Database dumps - Recovery time objective (RTO) - Snapshot
- Configuration files - Recovery point objective (RPO)

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4.6 Given a scenario, perform disaster recovery tasks.

• Failovers • Documentation
• Failback - DR kit
• Restore backups - Playbook
• Replication - Network diagram
• Network configurations • Geographical datacenter requirements
• On-premises and cloud sites
- Hot
- Warm
- Cold
• Requirements
- RPO
- RTO
- SLA
- Corporate guidelines

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 5.0 Troubleshooting
5.1 Given a scenario, use the troubleshooting
methodology to resolve cloud-related issues.
• Always consider corporate
policies, procedures, and impacts
before implementing changes.
1. Identify the problem
- Question the user and identify user
changes to the computer and perform
backups before making changes
- Inquire regarding environmental
or infrastructure changes
2. Establish a theory of probable
cause (question the obvious)
- If necessary, conduct external or
internal research based on symptoms
3. Test the theory to determine cause
- Once the theory is confirmed,
determine the next steps
to resolve the problem
- If the theory is not confirmed,
re-establish a new theory or escalate
4. Establish a plan of action to resolve the
problem and implement the solution
5. Verify full system functionality
and, if applicable, implement
preventive measures
6. Document the findings, actions, and
outcomes throughout the process.

5.2 Given a scenario, troubleshoot security issues.

• Privilege • Keys and certificates - Lack of encryption in protocols
- Missing - Expired - Insecure ciphers
- Incomplete - Revoked • Exposed endpoints
- Escalation - Trust • Misconfigured or failed
- Keys - Compromised security appliances
• Authentication - Misconfigured - IPS
• Authorization • Misconfigured or misapplied policies - IDS
• Security groups • Data security issues - NAC
- Network security groups - Unencrypted data - WAF
- Directory security groups - Data breaches • Unsupported protocols
- Misclassification • External/internal attacks

5.3 Given a scenario, troubleshoot deployment issues.

• Connectivity issues • Misconfigured templates • Licensing issues
- Cloud service provider (CSP) or • Missing or incorrect tags • Vendor-related issues
Internet service provider (ISP) outages • Insufficient capacity - Migrations of vendors or platforms
• Performance degradation - Scaling configurations - Integration of vendors or platforms
- Latency - Compute - API request limits
• Configurations - Storage - Cost or billing issues
- Scripts - Bandwidth issues
• Applications in containers - Oversubscription

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5.4 Given a scenario, troubleshoot connectivity issues.

• Network security group - Network address translation (NAT) • Network troubleshooting tools
misconfigurations - VPN - ping
- ACL - Source - tracert/traceroute
- Inheritance - Destination - flushdns
• Common networking - Load balancers - ipconfig/ifconfig/ip
configuration issues - Methods - nslookup/dig
- Peering - Headers - netstat/ss
- Incorrect subnet - Protocols - route
- Incorrect IP address - Encryption - arp
- Incorrect IP space - Back ends - curl
- Routes - Front ends - Packet capture
- Default - DNS records - Packet analyzer
- Static - VLAN/VXLAN/GENEVE - OpenSSL client
- Dynamic - Proxy
- Firewall - Maximum transmission unit (MTU)
- Incorrectly administered - Quality of service (QoS)
micro-segmentation - Time synchronization issues

5.5 Given a scenario, troubleshoot common performance issues.

• Resource utilization - Network latency
- CPU - Replication
- GPU - Scaling
- Memory • Application
- Storage - Memory management
- I/O - Service overload
- Capacity • Incorrectly configured or
- Network bandwidth failed load balancing

5.6 Given a scenario, troubleshoot automation or orchestration issues.

• Account mismatches • Automation tool incompatibility
• Change management failures - Deprecated features
• Server name changes - API version incompatibility
• IP address changes • Job validation issue
• Location changes • Patching failure
• Version/feature mismatch

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Cloud+ (CV0-003) Acronym List

The following is a list of acronyms that appear on the CompTIA Cloud+ exam.
Candidates are encouraged to review the complete list and attain a working
knowledge of all listed acronyms as part of a comprehensive exam preparation.

ACRONYM DEFINITION DMZ Demilitarized Zone

AAA Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting DNS Domain Name Service
ACL Access Control List DNSSEC DNS Security
ADC Application Delivery Controller DoH DNS over HTTPS
AES Advanced Encryption Standard DoT DNS over TLS
AI Artificial Intelligence DR Disaster Recovery
API Application Programming Interface DRP Disaster Recovery Plan
ARP Address Resolution Protocol DSA Distributed Services Architecture
BCP Business Continuity Plan EDR Endpoint Detection and Response
BGP Border Gateway Protocol FC Fibre Channel
BIA Business Impact Analysis FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet
CAB Change Advisory Board FIM File Integrity Monitoring
CAS Content Addressed Storage FTP File Transfer Protocol
CASB Cloud Access Security Broker FTPS FTP over SSL
CD Continuous Deployment GENEVE Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation
CDN Content Delivery Network GPT GUID Partition Table
CI Continuous Integration GPU Graphics Processing Unit
CIFS Common Internet File System GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation
CIIS Client Integration Implementation Service GUI Graphical User Interface
CMDB Configuration Management Database HA High Availability
CMS Content Management System HBA Host Bus Adapter
CNA Converged Network Adapter HIDS Host-Based IDS
COL Co-Location HIPS Host-Based IPS
COOP Continuity of Operations Plan HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
CPU Central Processing Unit I/O Input/Output
CRL Certificate Revocation List IaaS Infrastructure as a Service
CRM Customer Relationship Management ICMP Internet Control Management Protocol
CSP Content Service Provider IDS Intrusion Detection System
DAC Discretionary Access Control IFCP Internet Fibre Channel Protocol
DAS Direct Attached Storage IGRP Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
DBaaS Database as a Service IOPS Input/Output Operations Per Second
DBMS Database Management Server IoT Internet of Things
DDoS Distributed Denial of Service IPAM IP Address Management
DFS Distributed File System IPC Instructions Per Cycle
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface
DLP Data Loss Prevention IPS Intrusion Prevention System

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ACRONYM DEFINITION
IPSec IP Security PIT Point-in-Time (backup or snapshot)
IQN Initiator Qualified Name PKI Public Key Infrastructure
iSCSI Internet Small Computer System Interface PPTP Point-to-point Tunneling Protocol
ISNS Internet Storage Name Service QA Quality Assurance
ISP Internet Service Provider QoS Quality of Service
JBOD Just a Bunch Of Disks RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
KVM Kernel Virtual Machine RDP Remote Desktop Protocol
KVM Keyboard Video Mouse ReFS Resilient File System
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol RPO Recovery Point Objective
LAN Local Area Network RTO Recovery Time Objectives
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol SaaS Software as a Service
LTS Long Term Support SAML Security Assertion Markup Language
LUN Logical Unit Number SAN Storage Area Network
MAC Mandatory Access Control SAS Serial Attached SCSI
MBR Master Boot Record SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
MDF Main Distribution Facility SCP Session Control Protocol
MFA Multi-Factor Authentication SCSI Small Computer System Interface
ML Machine Learning SDLC Software Development Life Cycle
MPIO MultiPath I/O SDN Software-Defined Network
MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching SDS Software-Defined Storage
MSP Managed Service Provider SFTP Secure FTP
MTBF Mean Time Between Failure SHA Secure Hash Algorithm
MTTF Mean Time To Failure SIP Session Initiation Protocol
MTTR Mean Time To Repair SLA Service Level Agreement
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit SMB Server Message Block
NAC Network Access Control SMT Simultaneous Multi-Threading
NAS Network Attached Storage SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
NAT Network Address Translation SR-IOV Single-Root Input/ Output Virtualization
NFS Network File System SSD Solid State Disk
NIC Network Interface Controller SSH Secure Shell
NIS Network Information Service SSL Secure Sockets Layer
NOC Network Operations Center SSO Single Sign-On
NPIV N_Port ID Virtualization TCO Total Cost of Operations
NTFS New Technology File System TCP Transmission Control Protocol
NTP Network Time Protocol TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
NTS Network Time Security TLS Transport Layer Security
NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express TPM Trusted Platform Module
NVMe-oF NVMe over Fabrics TTL Time to Live
ODBC Open Database Connectivity UAT User Acceptance Testing
OLA Operational Level Agreement UDP Universal Datagram Protocol
OS Operating System UPS Universal Power Supply
OSPF Open Shortest Path First V2P Virtual to Physical
P2P Physical to Physical V2V Virtual to Virtual
P2V Physical to Virtual VAT Virtual Allocation Table
PaaS Platform as a Service vCPU Virtual CPU
PAT Port Address Translation VDI Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
PBX Private (or Public) Branch Exchange vGPU Virtual Graphics Processing Unit

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ACRONYM DEFINITION
VHD Virtual Hard Disk
VLAN Virtual LAN
VM Virtual Machine
VMFS Virtual Machine File System
VNC Virtual Network Computing
vNIC Virtual NIC
VoIP Voice over IP
VPC Virtual Private Cloud
VPN Virtual Private Network
vRAM Virtual RAM
vSAN Virtual SAN
vSwitch Virtual Switch
VTL Virtual Tape Library
VXLAN Virtual extensible LAN
WAF Web Application Firewall
WAN Wide Area Network
WMI Windows Management Implementation
WWNN World Wide Node Name
WWPN World Wide Port Name
XaaS anything as a Service
ZFS Z File System

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Cloud+ Proposed Hardware and Software List

CompTIA has included this sample list of hardware and software to assist
candidates as they prepare for the Cloud+ exam. This list may also be helpful for
training companies that wish to create a lab component to their training offering.
The bulleted lists below each topic are sample lists and are not exhaustive.

HARDWARE SOFTWARE OTHER

• Computer capable of • Automation tools • Internet access
running virtualization • Hypervisor (Type 1, Type 2) • Access to SaaS, PaaS, or
• Network switch** • Client (and server) OS IaaS environments
• Network router** • Various web browsers • Remote access to cloud service
• Compute (CPU, RAM, etc.)** • CLI** providers (trial or free service)
• NAS or SAN** • Virtualization format converter**
• Cables**

**Ideal, but not necessary for lab setup

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