Cloud Computing

Getting started with

Cloud
Understanding Cloud Fundamentals and Preparing for Cloud Solution Designer
This document depicts cloud computing course outline that will be delivered as part of cloud
computing curriculum. The objective of this course is to provide you solid background in cloud and
kick start your carrier as cloud administrator and cloud solution designer.

Objective
The objective of this course is to provide you solid foundation in cloud computing and gain hands on
experience on the most popular cloud platforms today. You will start with understanding of cloud
computing, their real world applications, together with how to implement common use cases with
existing cloud platforms of modern world.

Why you should attend this course?

Cloud computing, considered to be one of the most premier technologies of the world is becoming
omnipresent. In a report released by the Center for Economics and Business Research and EMC, they
claimed that the growing demand for cloud computing services will generate at least 446,000 jobs
yearly until 2015. These are direct jobs which require exclusive cloud skills. Besides that, regardless
of the fact that you are an infrastructure guy, a developer, a QA professional or a project manager
you will need cloud skills, as enterprise IT infrastructure and delivery platform is increasingly getting
amalgamated with cloud. Companies have started realizing the potential of cloud and have already
started leveraging it. As a professional you must understand how to work with cloud.

Who should attend this course?

Anyone who is working in IT sector must understand cloud computing infrastructure. Particularly if
you are a developer, architect or a project manager you should consider doing this course to get
your first hand experience on the cloud. By the time you are reading this, probably your
development environment has already shifted to cloud. So it is essential for you to know your new
software delivery platform. Moreover a fresher can also benefit from this course as it provides solid
kick start in their cloud carrier.

Pre-requisites
Following are the pre-requisites of this course
Working knowledge of windows and Linux OS
Basic understanding of networks
Aware about web servers and application servers
Basic understanding of IT infrastructure and virtualization

Course outline
The course structure is outlined in below.

Course Structure

Cloud
Fundamentals

Working with AWS

and Force.com

Hands on lab
exercise

Course Details
Entire course is of 32 hours duration, which comprise of 24 hours of theory and 8 hours of practical
session. The course outline is mentioned below.
1. Introduction to Cloud Computing
2. Cloud Computing Infrastructure and its components
3. Traditional IT infrastructure and Cloud
4. Cloud computing architecture
Understanding IaaS
Understanding PaaS
Understanding SaaS
5. Cloud Deployment Models
Understanding Public Cloud
Understanding Private Cloud
Understanding Hybrid Cloud
Community Cloud
6. Use cases of cloud computing
7. Cloud Security
8. Challenges with Cloud
9. Understanding Amazon Infrastructure
10. Amazon Pricing model
11. Understanding Core Amazon Services
12. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
13. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
14. Simple Storage Service (S3)
15. Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
16. Relational Database Service (RDS)
17. Amazon Direct Connect

18. Route 53
19. Amazon Dynamo DB
20. Amazon Glacier
21. Amazon Elastic Cache
22. Amazon Redshift
23. Amazon CloudFormation
24. Amazon CloudTrail
25. Identity and Access Manager
26. Amazon OpsWork
27. Amazon DataPipeline
28. Elastic Mapreduce
29. Cloud Search
30. Simple Network Service (SNS)
31. Simple Queue Service (SQS)
32. Simple Email Service (SES)
33. Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
34. Working with Force.com [Fill in more details about Force.com here]
35. Lab exercises covering IaaS, PaaS and SaaS concepts using Amazon Web Service (AWS)