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AL-604 (A) · Cloud Computing/Official Syllabus

Cloud Computing (AL-604 (A)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Introduction of Grid and Cloud computing

  • Introduction of Grid and Cloud computing, characteristics, components
  • business and IT perspective, cloud services requirements
  • cloud models, Security in public model, public verses private clouds
  • Cloud computing platforms: Amazon EC2
  • Platform as Service: Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure
  • Utility Computing, Elastic Computing
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Unit 2

Cloud services- SAAS, PAAS, IAAS

  • Cloud services- SAAS, PAAS, IAAS
  • cloud design and implementation using SOA
  • conceptual cloud model, cloud stack
  • computing on demand
  • Information life cycle management
  • cloud analytics
  • information security, virtual desktop infrastructure, storage cloud
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Unit 3

Virtualization technology

  • Virtualization technology: Definition, benefits
  • sensor virtualization, HVM
  • study of hypervisor
  • logical partitioning- LPAR
  • Storage virtualization, SAN, NAS
  • cloud server virtualization, virtualized data center
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Unit 4

Cloud security fundamentals

  • Cloud security fundamentals, Vulnerability assessment tool for cloud
  • Privacy and Security in cloud
  • Cloud computing security architecture: Architectural Considerations- General Issues, Trusted Cloud computing
  • Secure Execution Environments and Communications, Micro-architectures
  • Identity Management and Access control-Identity management, Access control, Autonomic Security
  • Cloud computing security challenges: Virtualization security management- virtual threats, VM Security Recommendations, VM-Specific Security techniques
  • Secure Execution Environments and Communications in cloud
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Unit 5

SOA and cloud

  • SOA and cloud, SOA and IAAS
  • cloud infrastructure benchmarks, OLAP, business intelligence
  • e-Business, ISV, Cloud performance monitoring commands
  • issues in cloud computing. QOS issues in cloud
  • mobile cloud computing, Inter cloud issues, Sky computing
  • Cloud Computing Platform, Xen Cloud Platform, Eucalyptus, OpenNebula, Nimbus, TPlatform, Apache Virtual Computing Lab (VCL), Anomaly Elastic Computing Platform

Reference Books

  • Cloud Computing — Dr.Kumar Saurabh — Wiley India
  • Cloud Security — Ronald Krutz, Russell Dean Vines — Wiley-India
  • Computing for Dummies — Judith Hurwitz, R.Bloor, M.Kanfman, F.Halper — Wiley India Edition
  • Cloud Computing b4 A Practical Approach — Anthony T.Velte, Toby J.Velte — TMH
  • Cloud Computing Bible — Barrie Sosinsky — Wiley India
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