Cloud and backup technician
Run cloud resources and guarantee that everything can be restored.
- Block code
- INFRA-CLD
The format
Three months, two hours a day.
- Certificate programme · 128 h
- Two hours a day
- 250,000 F — the same fee for all sixty
- All in the same format, at the same fee.
The qualification
A CQP under MINEFOP accreditation.
- Leads to the CQP — Certificat de Qualification Professionnelle, which the ministry used to call the AQP.
- Awarded under MINEFOP accreditation.
- The full programme for the same profession remains open to anyone aiming for the complete qualification.
Sessions
A new session opens every quarter.
Next intake: Monday 5 October, with enrolment open until 2 October. The following one starts on 4 January 2027.
- First-quarter intake — enrolment closes on 2 October5 Oct.
- Second-quarter intake — 20274 Jan.
Objectives
What you will be able to do.
Install and administer a hypervisor, create and manage virtual machines
Understand the issues around storage and the constraints of a server room
Design, implement and test a backup strategy
Draw up and carry out a disaster recovery plan
Deploy and secure basic resources on the main cloud platforms
Administer a Linux server and publish an encrypted hosted service
Monitor an infrastructure and respond to an incident using documented procedures
Compare a cloud cost with an on-premises cost honestly, data transfer included
Programme
Four modules.
Module 0132 h Module 0232 h Storage, backup and restore
Module 0332 h Linux servers and hosted services
Module 0432 h Containers and day-to-day operations
Who it is for
Who it is aimed at.
- Complete beginners. The block follows naturally from a support or network track, but can be taken on its own: nothing is required beyond basic ease with computers and elementary networking notions — IP address, what a server is.
Afterwards
Where it leads.
- Cloud technician, backup and operations technician, junior systems administrator. Natural next step towards automation and infrastructure as code (Automation and infrastructure as code) or towards cybersecurity.
Method
How it works.
Systematic alternation between short theory sessions and practical work, with most of the time spent on practice
Progression from simple to complex: each module builds on what was learnt in the previous one
Realistic role-plays drawn from Cameroonian business cases
Considered use of generative AI as a working tool, in line with the common core
Regular formative assessments and a final integrative project drawing on all four modules
Assessment
How you are assessed.
Formative assessment at the end of each module (graded role-play and practical exercises)
Practical work assessed against competency sheets
Final integrative project, presented and defended before the trainer
One graded assignment per module in the online course space
Tools
What you work with.
Proxmox VE or VMware ESXi — server virtualisation hypervisor
Veeam Community Edition or Bacula — backup and restore
Free trial accounts for AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform
Zabbix or Nagios — infrastructure monitoring
Docker — containerisation; Terraform as a preview
Nginx, a relational database, Let's Encrypt for hosted services
Keep exploring
In the same field.
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Ready to get started?
Sessions open every quarter. Apply now or request the detailed brochure — our advisers will get back to you.