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    Dec 22, 2024  
2023-2024 College Catalog [***ATTENTION: THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG***]

CIS 245 - AWS Cloud Foundations and Developing


Credits: 4
Lab/Lecture: Four Lecture.

Provides an overview of cloud concepts, Amazon Web Services (AWS) core services, security, architecture, pricing, and support. Intended for students who seek an overall understanding of cloud computing concepts, independent of specific technical roles. Helps to prepare students for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. Provides students with the knowledge to develop, deploy and debug cloud-based applications on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.  It will investigate the different software development kits (SDKs) and how to build cloud infrastructure using code. Previous experience with programming fundamentals is highly recommended.
Course Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
  1. explain the value of the aws cloud;
  2. understand and explain the aws shared responsibility model and aws cloud security best practices;
  3. understand and explain aws cloud costs, economics, and billing practices;
  4. describe and position the core aws services (compute, network, databases, and storage);
  5. identify aws services for common use cases;
  6. develop, deploy and debug code on the aws cloud;
  7. implement security within the aws cloud application;
  8. develop code based on aws cloud services and software development kits (sdks);
  9. refactor code based on aws services and versions;
  10. monitor and troubleshoot aws cloud applications.