Syllabus
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Course Title: Cloud Computing Fundamentalsfor Information Science
Course Number: INST 347
Term: Spring Fall 2024
Credits: 3
Course Format: Online Synchronous . One online synchronous meeting per week with optional in-person experiences
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Course Website: http://elms.umd.edu
Required Books
Hoff 2017: Explain the Cloud Like I’m 10 (Kindle)
Comer 2021: The Cloud Computing Book (available on course reserves at UMD library)
Optional Books
Technology-Specific Books
Baron 2020: AWS: The Complete Beginner’s Guide
Vergadia 2022: Visualizing Google Cloud 101
Warner 2020: Microsoft Azure for Dummies
Other eBooks as needs and opportunities arise
Laptop (or desktop) computer onto which you can install software, and with an Internet Connection to ELMS and other services for labs and activities:
Free software and cloud resources via free enrollment in the AWS Academy, Cisco Skills for All including Cisco Packet Tracer, access to the AWS Academy, and VMWare through DIT and VMWare IT Academy
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Approximate Weekly Schedule
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; open identity and ethical questions |
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 | Cisco 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) Cisco Skills for All mini-courses relevant to Cloud Computing |
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Status
09/14/22: Successful meeting with Everett. Dennis and Donal are instructor candidates in UMD AWS Academy. Dennis will pursue training and revisit syllabus draft in a few weeks. Happy to brief anyone on where we intend to go with this.
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December: presenting to committee
https://umd.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/data-and-cloud-computing-society
https://undergrad.cs.umd.edu/data-and-cloud-computing-society
https://umd-cs-stics.gitbooks.io/cmsc389l-practical-cloud-computing-spring-2018/content/
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Brief
Investigate creation of a follow-on course to 346 to give cloud computing for beginners more adequate coverage than is possible in 346. Separately but perhaps synergistically, ESG students have requested coursework in Cloud Computing.
Collaborator(s)
Dennis Frezzo, Donal Heidenblad, Galina Madjaroff, Tetyana Bezbabna
Preliminary Resources
AWS Cloud Quest Role-Playing Game (with Free Tier)
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https://webapps.umgc.edu/soc/us.cfm?fAcad=UGRD&fAcad2=&fSess=2228&fLoc=ALL&fSubj=CMIT
Proposed Changes to INST377
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
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