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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 design cloud computing community by using terminology and concepts.
Quizzes (10%): to help provide practice with feedback along the way.
Homework and Lab Activities : to help you work through recorded lectures, home lab activities, web links, and online textbook reading, weekly.
Project Assignments: we will learn and use a cloud computing resources, online labs.
Midterm and Final(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 events event to help gauge your progress.
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Resources
Approximate Weekly Schedule
Week | Topics | DeliverableDeliverables |
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1 | What is Cloud Computing (Hoff)? Hoff, Ch. 1-14, Explain the Cloud Like I’m 10. | Identity Discover Roadmap; start list of questions; complete AWS Academy Registration; Obtain software |
2 | What is Cloud Computing (Hoff)? Hoff, Ch. 15-26, Explain the Cloud Like I’m 10. | Complete Question Wiki |
3 | What are the building blocks of cloud computing? Review of 346 relevant to Cloud Computing - Hardware, Software, Links, Networks, Security | Packet Tracer Model |
4 | Overview Comer Ch 1-3 (The Motivations for Cloud, Elastic Computing and Its Advantages, Types of Clouds and Cloud Providers) | VMware Labs |
5 | Comer Ch 4-8 (Data Structure Infrastructure and Equipment, Virtual Machines, Containers, Virtual Networks, Virtual Storage) | VMWare Labs |
6 | AWS Module 1 - 3 (Cloud Concepts Overview, Cloud Economics and Billing, AWS Global Infrastructure Overview) | AWS Academy Labs |
7 | AWS Module 4-7 (AWS Cloud Security, Networking and Content Delivery, Compute, Storage) | AWS Academy Labs |
8 | AWS Module 8-10 (Databases, Cloud Architecture, AutoScaling and Monitoring) | AWS Academy Labs |
9 | Comer Ch 9-10 (Automation, Orchestration: Automated Replication and Parallelism) | AWS Academy Labs |
10 | Highlights from Comer Ch 11-17 18 (The Map Reduce Paradigm, Microservices, Controller-Based Management Software, Serverless Computing and Event Processing, DevOps); Comer 16-17 (, Edge Computing and IIoT, Cloud Security and Privacy, Controlling the Complexity of Cloud-Native Systems) | Big Pictures and Exploring Project Ideas |
11 | Contrasting Cloud Services - AWS, Google, Azure | competitive analysis |
12 | Template-Driven Final Project | Scaffolded Projects highly scaffolded projects start |
13 | Final Project | project progress |
14 | Final Project | project progress |
15 | Final Project | project Presentations |
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