Cloud Service Technologies course is meant to introduce basic Cloud Concepts and General Cloud Information to anyone working in contemporary field of ICT.
This course should be taken by anyone who is planning to work in field of ICT, because Employers have a strong demand for skills related to the Public Cloud.
Note that this course alone doesn't make you cloud professional, cloud administrator or cloud developer. This course is meant for most people regardless of job role that they have or may have in the future in field of ICT.
-In the words of AWS: The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) exam is intended for individuals who can effectively demonstrate overall knowledge of the AWS Cloud, independent of a specific job role.
-In the words of Azure: Candidates for this (AZ-900) exam are technology professionals who want to demonstrate foundational knowledge of cloud concepts in general and Azure in particular. This certification is a common starting point in a journey towards a career in Azure.
Taking actual AWS or Azure certification examination (CFN-02 or AZ-900) is not mandatory part of this course, but historically AWS and Microsoft have provided free or discounted examination vouchers for students so that test can be optionally taken.
Completing pertinent Certification will give Employers a strong indication that you have proven knowledge about Public Cloud.
There are no strict prerequisites courses for this course, but it will help student if they have completed studies on following course(s):
-Introduction to ICT Infrastructure and Cloud Services (5 credits)
It will help student if they have exposure, experience and understanding about some or all of the following topics:
-Common Business System Structure (Web Tier, App Tier, Database Tier)
-Data Center Basics (Structure, Racks, Compute Blades, JBOD Blades, Networking)
-Computer Operation Basics (CPU, RAM, DISK, NIC)
-Virtualization Basics (Hypervisor, VCPU, VRAM, VDISK, VNIC, VNET)
-Operating System Basics (Windows, Linux, CLI: cmd, shell, bash and similar)
-Software Administration Basics
-Web Service Basics (Domain Name, DNS, TLS Certificates, HTTP/HTTPS, HTTP Requests, REST APIs)
-Networking Basics (Network Fundamentals, IP Address, Network Segmentation, Firewall)
Course content is roughly the same whether teaching is delivered by using Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure Public Cloud vendor materials. Course content also have additional supportive Haaga-Helia materials that combines what AWS and Azure have to say on a given topic. Spoiler Alert: Basic Cloud Concepts and many many Cloud Services are absolutely the same between AWS and Azure (differences are mostly in technical specifics) so it makes sense to approach the course content from General Public Cloud Knowledge perspective.
If course content is delivered with Microsoft Azure materials then course help student to prepare for AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification examination: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/certifications/exams/az-900/
If course content is delivered with Amazon Web Services materials then course help student to prepare for CLF-C02: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification examination: https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-cloud-practitioner/
Course delivery contains following top level topics:
Cloud Concepts
-Public Cloud Economics, Billing and Cost Management
-Public Cloud Global Infrastructure and Architectural Components
-Public Cloud Services: IAM & Security
-Public Cloud Services: Networking
-Public Cloud Services: Compute
-Public Cloud Services: Storage
-Public Cloud Services: Database
-Public Cloud Services: Governance, Management and Monitoring
-Overview of Cloud Adoption Framework
-Overview of Well Architected Framework
Students will work on following deliveries during the implementations of this course and are able to gather 0 to 100 total score from the following components:
Assignments and Laboratories
- Assignments may contain Group and/or Individual Assignments
- Learning Environment Laboratories
Exam
- Typically single and multiple choice questions.
- Exam is graded according to 50% scale as must have a passing grade so that student can pass this course.
Students are graded according to following 50% scale:
- Score 0-49 = Grade 0 (Fail)
- Score 50-60 = Grade 1 (Learning Opportunity, Opportunity for Improvement)
- Score 61-70 = Grade 2 (Satisfactory)
- Score 71-80 = Grade 3 (Good)
- Score 81-90 = Grade 4 (Very good)
- Score 91-100 = Grade 5 (Excellent)