SIXTEEN WEEK TEACHING PLAN

Course & Course Code Cloud Computing COSC-4114

Credit Hours 2
Department Computer Science
Course Type: Theory
Theory/Lab Theory
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Week 1
Contents / Sub Contents Fundamentals of Cloud Computing

 Definition, history, and evolution of cloud computing

 Benefits and challenges of cloud computing
 Key characteristics of cloud computing (On-demand,
Elasticity, Pay-as-you-go)

Appropriate Teaching White Board and Multimedia

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Study material, Book and Internet
Appropriate Assessment In class question answer and Assignment
Tools
Assessment Schedule During lecture
Others

Week 2
Contents / Sub Contents Cloud Service Models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)

 Overview of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

 Platform as a Service (PaaS) explained
 Software as a Service (SaaS) use case

Appropriate Teaching White Board and Multimedia

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Study material, Book and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Study material, Book and Internet
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 3rd Week Lecture
Others
Week 3
Contents / Sub Contents Cloud Deployment Models

 Public, Private, Hybrid, and Multi-cloud approaches

 Edge computing and cloud integration
 Case studies of major cloud adoption

Appropriate Teaching White Board and Multimedia

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Study material, Book and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Study material, Book and Internet
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 4th Week Lecture
Others
Week 4
Contents / Sub Contents Introduction to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
  Comparison of AWS, Azure, and GCP architectures
 Overview of cloud service offerings

Appropriate Teaching White Board and Multimedia

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Study material, Book and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Study material, Book and Internet
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 5th Week Lecture

Others
 Week 5
Contents / Sub Contents Compute Services in the Cloud

 Virtual Machines: EC2 (AWS), VMs (Azure), Compute Engine

(GCP)
 Auto-scaling and Load Balancing

Appropriate Teaching White Board and Multimedia

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Study material, Book and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Study material, Book and Internet
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 6th Week Lecture
Others
Week 6
Contents / Sub Contents Storage & Database Services

 Object Storage: S3 (AWS), Blob Storage (Azure), Cloud

Storage (GCP)
 Database Services: RDS, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, Big Query

Appropriate Teaching White Board and Multimedia

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Study material, Book and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Study material, Book and Internet
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 7th Week Lecture
Others
 Week 7
Contents / Sub Contents Networking in the Cloud

 Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Subnets, Routing

 Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
 API Gateway & Serverless Functions

Appropriate Teaching White Board and Multimedia

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Study material, Book and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Study material, Book and Internet
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 8th Week Lecture
Others
Week 8
Contents / Sub Contents Cloud Security Fundamentals

 Identity & Access Management (IAM)

 Data encryption and security policies

Appropriate Teaching White Board and Multimedia

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Study material, Book and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Study material, Book and Internet
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 9th Week Lecture
Others
 Week 9
Contents / Sub Contents Data Privacy & Compliance

 Compliance standards: GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001

 Shared responsibility model

Appropriate Teaching White Board and Multimedia

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Study material, Book and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Study material, Book and Internet
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 10th Week Lecture
Others
Week 10
Contents / Sub Contents Cloud Governance & Cost Management

 Monitoring & Logging tools (AWS CloudWatch, Azure

Monitor)
 Cost optimization strategies

Appropriate Teaching White Board and Multimedia

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Study material, Book and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Study material, Book and Internet
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 12th Week Lecture
Others
 Week 11
Contents / Sub Contents Serverless Computing & DevOps in Cloud

 AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions

 CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform)

Appropriate Teaching White Board and Multimedia

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Study material, Book and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Study material, Book and Internet
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 12th Week Lecture
Others
Week 12
Contents / Sub Contents Containers & Kubernetes

 Docker fundamentals
 Kubernetes (K8s) orchestration with AWS EKS, Azure AKS,
GCP GKE

Appropriate Teaching White Board and Multimedia

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Study material, Book and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Study material, Book and Internet
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Assessment Schedule Before Week 13
Others
 Week 13
Contents / Sub Contents AI/ML & Emerging Trends in Cloud Computing

 AI & ML services in the cloud (AWS SageMaker, Azure AI,

Google AI)
 Cloud-native development trends (Edge computing, Multi-
cloud strategies)

Appropriate Teaching White Board and Multimedia

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Study material, Book and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Study material, Book and Internet
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 14th Week Lecture
Others
Week 14
Contents / Sub Contents Designing & Implementing Cloud Solutions

 Architecting solutions with AWS Well-Architected Framework

 High availability and disaster recovery planning

Appropriate Teaching White Board and Multimedia

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Study material, Book and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Study material, Book and Internet
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 15th Week Lecture

Others
 Week 15
Contents / Sub Contents Cloud Project Development & Deployment

 Group/individual cloud-based project implementation

 Deployment and testing on AWS/Azure/GCP

Appropriate Teaching White Board and Multimedia

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Study material, Book and Internet
Assessment Schedule Before Final Exam

Others
Week 16
Contents / Sub Contents Final Review & Presentations

 Cloud solution demonstrations

 Final assessment and certification guidance

Appropriate Teaching Written Exam

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Slides, Notes, Data and Computer Communication by William
Stallings, Computer Networks by Andrew Tanenbaum
Appropriate Assessment Written Exam, objective and subjective questions
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Assessment Schedule TBD
Others

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