Cloud Service Technologies (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

Delivery Methods

Course material language is english. Course teaching language is english on finnish depending on implementation.

Course is delivered by utilizing some of the applicable methods from the rough outline below (depending if it is contact or online implementation):

- Contact or Online Lectures
- Hands-on Laboratories
- Self Study
- Individual and/or Group Assignments
- Exam

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

Recognition of Prior Learning will be evaluated on student basis. Content of RPL delivery will be designed together with the student, but typically RPL includes following components:

- Student provides the corresponding valid AWS/Azure Certification (AZ-900/CLF-C01, CLF-C02)
- Student prepares and delivers 30 minute lecture to class about topic agreed with teacher
- Student passes course exam

Intro

Learning Objectives for this course are lightened version of AZ-900 and CLF-C02 syllabi.

- [AZ-900 Syllabus](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/certifications/resources/study-guides/AZ-900)
- [CLF-C02 Syllabus](https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-cloud-practitioner/AWS-Certified-Cloud-Practitioner_Exam-Guide_C02.pdf)

Learning Objectives for this course do not require memorizing as many technical details as cloud vendor syllabi might indicate. Learning Objectives are on more general level, but identifying what are key Cloud Services for a given purpose by AWS or Azure is a Learning Objective.

Borrowing and generalizing some learning objectives from AWS CLF-C02 Syllabus gives a good starting point to define top level learning objectives for this course:

- Understand that Cloud is Data Center business for AWS and Azure.
- Explain the value of the Public Cloud.
- Understand and explain Cloud Deployment Models.
- Understand and explain Cloud Service Models.
- Understand and explain the Shared Responsibility Model.
- Understand Public Cloud Security best practices.
- Understand Public Cloud costs, economics, and billing practices.
- Describe and position the core Public Cloud services, including compute, network, database, and storage services.
- Identify applicable Azure/AWS Cloud Services for common use cases.
- Understand what is Azure/AWS Cloud Adoption Framework.
- Understand what is Azure/AWS Well Architected Framework.

Teaching methods and instruction

This is combined Online and Virtual Instructed implementation.

All materials and teaching is in english. (There is "finnish" language Virtual Instructed implementation for visibility purposes only.)

Learners have the option to choose if they want to focus on AWS or Azure learning path to study.

Work load for the course is 135h of studies. 10h is reserved for general activities and 125h is reserved for module specific studies. There are 10 study modules and for each module workload is 12,5 hours of active studies inlcuding book, lecture, study notes, labs and other learning tasks depending on the module.

It is possible to get score between 0 and 100 from this course. These are the learning tasks that contribute to the total score:

Exam (Score 0-50)
Study Involvement (Score 0-10)
Study Notes (Score 0-20)
Laboratories (Score 0-20)

Exam is typically single and multiple choice questions, but might contain essay questions.

This course as a whole is graded according to 50% grading. 50% of maximum result from the Final Evaluaton is required to pass the course.

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)