Cloud Computing Curriculum |  |
The latest NIST guidance describes “Cloud computing as a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” OMB will require agencies to adopt cloud solutions by June 2012. Graduate School USA in partnership with GovernmentCIO, offers a series of courses to assist IT professionals, acquisitions professionals, and project managers at federal agencies in determining solutions for their agencies.
The following are the four courses that focus on the critical aspects of cloud computing:
Cloud computing can quickly deliver cost savings and enable a more agile infrastructure. Learn what the cloud is and how to assess the value of the cloud, and see how major vendors are supporting organizations like yours through the cloud.
Learning Outcomes
- Define cloud computing; its three delivery models and three deployment models
- Calculate cost savings and cost avoidance figures to assess the financial value of cloud computing solutions
- Understand best practices for cloud computing marketing, including vendors, and be able to tell the difference between cloud service providers and external hosting vendors
- Explain how cloud computing can lead to a more agile enterprise
Learn how to architect solutions in the cloud. Discover, through instructor-led training and labs, how to architect high availability solutions that meet both your business and disaster recovery needs.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand and be able to explain the benefits of the various cloud computing architectures
- Demonstrate how cloud computing architectures are designed
- Describe how cloud computing better prepares an enterprise for disaster recovery and continuity of operations
- Analyze and explain the benefits of application scaling and hybrid design
Learn how to develop solutions in the cloud. Discover through instructor-led training and hands-on labs, using tools like Amazon Web Services, how to develop powerful and low-cost solutions.
- Analyze the programming of cloud computing services to fully reveal and understand the framework behind the various services
- Explain the various billing methods of cloud service providers such as pay as you go and block purchasing
- Define a virtual infrastructure and demonstrate how to build a virtual infrastructure
- Design and build applications that are cloud computing ready
Learn how to construct secure systems in the cloud. Discover, through instructor-led training and hands-on labs, how to secure cloud-based solutions. Learn how to secure systems through the use of encryption, through secure architecture and through appropriate use of identification and access management techniques.
- Explain how cloud computing service providers currently secure the cloud
- Demonstrate how to apply the NIST security Risk Management Assessment Framework to cloud computing solutions and how to mitigate risks identified in the Framework
- Define FedRAMP and its impact on cloud computing in the federal government, and identify gaps that agencies will need to close even with the implementation of FedRAMP
- Gain an understanding of current security publications, standards and best business practices currently being applied in the public and private sectors.
