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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
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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.
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Week | Topics | Deliverables |
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1 | What is Cloud Computing? 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, 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 11-18 (The Map Reduce Paradigm, Microservices, Controller-Based Management Software, Serverless Computing and Event Processing, DevOps, 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 - make time in the course to respond to ethical, looking at the impact of what we do in the wider social environment (eg, Heroku disappearing, vendor lock-in, multicloud, take this into consideration | competitive analysis |
12 | Template-Driven Final Project | highly scaffolded projects start |
13 | Final Project | project progress |
14 | Final Project | project progress |
15 | Final Project | project Presentations |
Extra Credit | Complete the AWS Cloud Quest Game (Free Level, Cloud Practitioner) |
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