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  • Articulate and apply the major benefits of cloud computing

  • Decide how cloud skills pertain to their professional identity and formulate technical questions pertaining to cloud computing

  • Build simple models of physical and virtual cloud computing infrastructure

  • Differentiate amongst compute, storage, database, and network functions in the cloud

  • Analyze major cloud service provider’s services

  • Design and implement a simple cloud solution with architectural, economic, and security constraints

  • Design and critically evaluate existing designs for cloud computing users from diverse backgrounds with varying needs, applying anti-racist perspectives to ensure usability needs are met

  • Explain how the use and design of cloud computing systems reflect broader social and organizational structures and the related ethical and equity issues.

Course Activities

  • Online Discussions and Wiki (15%): Synchronous and asynchronous to help you build relationships with other students, despite the online nature of the course, and to help you join the cloud computing community by using terminology and concepts.

  • Quizzes (10%): to help provide practice with feedback along the way.

  • Homework and Lab Activities (50%): weekly practice in the form of problems from lectures, reading, and labs

  • Final Project Assignment (20%): choose from a menu of options to put your skills to work, in a group

  • Midterm (5%): Take-home individual event to help gauge your progress.

  • More Details in ELMS

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