Course Description
This course is designed to introduce the concepts of Cloud Computing. The course will expose students to three different perspectives of Cloud Computing: the theoretical, the technical, and the commercial perspectives. A variety of real case studies and existing market cloud-based tools will be identified and studied to provide students with an overview of Cloud Computing applications. Student will also look into more in-depth considerations for planning, designing and migrating to Virtualized Data Centres (VDC) and Cloud environments.
Learning Activities
Lecture, seminars, demonstrations, and hands-on exercises
Means of Assessment
Evaluation will take place in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy.
| Assignments/labs |
15-30% |
| Quiz(zes)* |
10-25% |
| Midterm Examination* |
25-40% |
| Final Examination* |
25-40% |
| Total |
100% |
* In order to pass the course, students must, in addition to receiving an overall course grade of 50%, also achieve a grade of at least 50% on the combined weighted examination components (including quizzes, tests, exams).
Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the successful student will be able to:
- Describe cloud computing: a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (networks, serers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction;
- Analyze the technical foundations of cloud computing;
- Analyze the economic benefits of cloud computing;
- Analyze the competitive advantages of cloud computing e.g. faster deployment/access to IT resources, fine-grain scalability;
- Configure a commercial cloud platform, e.g. Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Alibaba Cloud;
- Demonstrate how cloud computing changes traditional data centre;
- Evaluate strategies of how organizations can migrate to the cloud;
- Discuss the limitations and challenges of cloud computing;
- Discuss the best practices for cloud computing e.g. elastic architecture, design for failure, high availability, performance, security, monitoring and;
- Discuss data privacy laws and corporate policies.
Textbook Materials
materials provided by the instructor
and/or
other textbook approved by department