Cloud Service Technologies - Study guide

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)

The virtual introductory cloud course covers basic public cloud topics based on AWS (CLF-C02) and Azure (AZ-900) syllabi. In this specific implementation students can choose whether they want to study AWS or Azure materials. All materials and exam are in english language! This implementation is not meant to focus on vendor-specific technologies, but to provide a balanced introduction to general public cloud topics by giving students exposure to both AWS and Azure technologies through labs from both vendors. The virtual implementation has a time frame of 16 weeks, and studies must be concluded within that time.

The virtual course is delivered using mainly the methods outlined below:
- Self-study of the chosen course book
- Hands-on AWS and Azure laboratories from cloud vendor education learning environments
- Other materials from cloud vendor education learning environments
- Peer support on Teams

AWS focus path materials (comprehensive resources):
- Study book: O'Reilly eBook service (a couple of options)
- Learning resources for education: AWS Academy, lecture slides, videos, 8 labs, sandbox
- Lecture slides: Yes, in AWS Academy, covering 100% of topics
- Public learning resources: AWS Skill Builder

Azure focus path materials (ok resources):
- Study book: O'Reilly eBook service
- Learning resources for education: Microsoft Learn for Educators, 30 labs
- Lecture slides: Some exist, but are not available to students, covering 10% of topics
- Public learning resources: Microsoft Learn

Possible supportive methods for the virtual course studies may or may not include:
- Video recordings on course topics
- Additional provided materials
- Limited teacher support

Students will work on the following deliverables during the implementation of this course and can gather a total score ranging from 0 to 100 from the following components:
- Study notes (in finnish or in english): 0-25 points
- Learning environment laboratories: 0-25 points
- Exam in Haaga-Helia Exam system: 0-50 points

Haaga-Helia specific course materials delivered from Moodle or Teams.
-Presentation Slides
-Lecturer Notes

Microsoft Azure Materials (Microsoft Learn for Educators learning environment)
-Laboratories
-Certification Specific Book (physical or online)

Amazon Web Services Materials (AWS Academy learning environent)
-Videos
-Presentation Slides
-Laboratories
-Certification Specific Book (physical or online)

...and other indicated material!

Pasila Campus

English

13.01.2025 - 16.05.2025

02.01.2025 - 10.01.2025

VIRTUAL
INSTRUCTED
ITE4PAICI1

Pekka Korpi-Tassi

15 - 30

ITBBA Business Information Technology

0.00 cr

5.00 cr

H-5