Explore KSACs by Pathway
In late 2025, the Partnership pulled together members of industry from across tech to share how the in-demand skillsets for entry-level roles in their fields have changed in the last two years. The Knowledge, Skills & Abilities and Credentials (KSACs) below reflect their feedback on entry-level expectations, especially in a tech workplace increasingly shaped by AI.
4. Cloud Fundamentals
| Label | KSAC Description | Bloom's Taxonomy Level | |
|---|---|---|---|
| a | Describe the fundamental cloud components (e.g., shared or dedicated processing, storage, memory, networking, hypervisor). | knowledge | 2 |
| b | Differentiate between public, private, and hybrid clouds (i.e. deployment models). | knowledge | 2 |
| c | Describe the shared responsbility model for mainatining secure cloud systems | knowledge | 2 |
| d | Demonstrate an understanding of cloud architecture and the capabilities of services such as AWS, Azure, IBM, Oracle and Google. | knowledge | 2 |
| e | Instantiate a small computing environment in a cloud service. | ability | 3 |
| f | Identify common breaches and threats in the cloud environment. | knowledge | 1 |
| g | Understand how to set security configurations in a cloud environment. | knowledge | 2 |
| h | Understand a variety of cloud services and what problems each is meant to solve (e.g. Infrastructure as a serice (IaaS, Platform as a service (PaaS), or Function as a Service (FaaS) / Serverless). | knowledge | 2 |