About Cloud Computing

This foundation course is designed for both technical as well as non-technical students of ASM Group of Institutes. This course is to be offered to all the students during their 1st semester across the institutes. The program will help the students to get equipped with relevant knowledge and required skills in the era of digital transformation in business, focusing Cloud Computing

Audiences

All First Semester Students of ASM Group of Institutes (Technical & Non Technical).

ASM Group being a member institute to AWS Educate Program, the eligible students will receive the access to the learning platform along with the other benefits as per the program provision.

AWS Educate Program

The AWS Educate program ("AWS Educate") is Amazon’s global initiative to provide students and educators with the resources needed to greatly accelerate Cloud-related learning endeavors and to help power the workforce of tomorrow.

With the increasing demand for cloud-skilled employees, AWS Educate provides an academic gateway for the next generation of IT and cloud professionals. The program offers a robust set of free tools, resources, and AWS Promotional Credits for students and educators to skill upon the cloud and accelerate cloud-related learning endeavors.

Core to the AWS Educate program is the provision of content, provided by both AWS and by phenomenal educators and institutions around the globe, in order to speed the injection of the cloud into curricular.

For more information about the program, please visit - www.awseducate.com

Course Description: CLOUD COMPUTING FOUNDATION

This foundation course explores the basic concepts around Computer, Internet, and relevant details on Cloud Computing. . Throughout the course, students will expand their knowledge of cloud computing through narrative-based scenarios and short interactive tasks. Students will also survey cloud careers and discuss industry demand for cloud skills. Not only on the technology front, students will also go through various business case studies to understand the impact of Cloud technology on mainstream business.

After completing the course the students will be able to understand and address the following areas

  • Explain the evolution of the internet
  • Describe the cloud computing model
  • Describe examples of infrastructure as a service
  • Describe examples of platform as a service
  • Describe examples of software as a service
  • Evaluate and assess the benefits of cloud computing and cloud applications
  • Discuss industry demand for cloud skills
  • Understand the social impacts of computing
  • Understand Business imperative of Cloud Computing

  • Module 1: Computer Basics - Introduction to the Internet
  • Module 2: Cyber security
  • Module 3: Data Analysis
  • Module 4: Algorithms and Programming
  • Module 5: Impacts of Computing
  • Module 6: Fundamental of Cloud Architecture
  • Module 7: Cloud Consumption Models
  • Module 8: Cloud Security - Focused Approach
  • Module 9 : Fundamentals of Cloud Storage
  • Module 10: Fundamental Cloud Governance
  • Module 11 : Business Case Studies
  • Lab Exercise 1 : Launch your first Linux Virtual Machine on AWS Cloud (Optional)
  • Lab Exercise 2 : Launching Web Application with AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Optional)

Course Performance Metrics

The performance metrics included in the course to confirm successful completion of the stated learning objective(s), include:

  • Knowledge Checks (5 item assessments) – as part of AWS Cloud Inventor Program
  • Lab Exercises – as per the Institute validation (Optional)

ASM’s view on learning Cloud for non technical students

ASM believes that, Cloud is the de-facto technology platform to drive and scale up business. Understanding basics of Cloud technologies, deployment & environment, will broaden view of business and will also help student to explore new business avenues and business models.

Learning Cloud Computing will help students to stay more competitive, and relevant in current and future business landscape, ensuring better employabilit.

AWS Educate Cloud Career Pathways provide students with access to credits, training, and the option to choose their desired cloud career. AWS Educate delivers a personalized path that includes content, knowledge checks, and badging that guides them through the learning process.

Program Overview & Goals

  • An innovative program on Cloud Computing is designed to provide Basic understanding of Cloud computing.
  • Become the 'A' listed candidate preferred by IT companies as their cloud professional.
  • Student will get strong foundation concepts in Cloud Computing and required knowledge to proceed their career as AWS Professionals.
  • Become cloud proficient with complete hands-on experience on live cloud environment throughout the training.
  • Student will able to select the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements.

Further study areas around AWS Cloud

After successful completion of Cloud Computing Foundation, students are encouraged to complete Cloud Computing 101 learning pathway under AWS Educate Program.