Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Description: This course focuses on career management skills needed to navigate the evolving workplace. Students will evaluate their skills, attitudes, and expectations within their chosen careers and explore emerging trends in the workplace. Students will refine their networking strategies and create marketing documents to position them for success. Mock interviews will provide the opportunity for practice, feedback, and reflection as students prepare for future interviews. Students will explore communication strategies that support workplace success and advancement. By the end of this course, students will have created a personalized career management plan.

• Hours: 28
• Credits: 2
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: $10.55

Description: This self-directed course focuses on introducing new students to the supports, services, and opportunities available at Conestoga College. By the end of this course, students will understand the academic expectations of the Conestoga learning environment, as well as the supports available to ensure their academic success. Students will also be able to identify on-campus services that support their health and wellness, and explore ways to get actively involved in the Conestoga community through co-curricular learning opportunities.

• Hours: 1
• Credits: 0
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description: A key objective for many organizations is the deployment of an effective cloud architecture. One of the major challenges in achieving that objective is understanding the business requirements of the organization and building the architecture to meet current needs while providing scalability for seamless growth. In this course, the student will analyze business needs and design a cloud solution to meet those needs. In a later course, the solution will be deployed in a proof of concept.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

Organizations are rapidly incorporating cloud-based tools and services as part of their infrastructure. Thus, increasing the demand for cloud adoption, migration, and scaling strategies. Insecure cloud-based transition may lead to several implications resulting in a data breach, violation of national data protection policy, and other consequences. Therefore, cloud security plays a vital role for effective data operations. In this course, students will explore cloud security threats and their implications. Topics will also include cloud security compliance, security requirements for protecting data, applications and workloads running in the cloud.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description: This course introduces a broad spectrum of components that comprise virtualization and cloud computing. The student will learn about the technologies involved with these components and how they relate to each other to form a virtualization/cloud architecture based on well-known practices. The technologies and practices learned in this course provide the foundation for other courses in the program.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description: One of the most popular uses of virtualization technology is server virtualization, which involves virtualizing typical server workloads such as authentication and database servers. In this course, the student will learn how to deploy and configure a private cloud environment tailored to support server virtualization. Virtualization of computer, network and storage resources will be covered, as well as proper deployment of server workloads in that environment.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description: Public cloud technologies are often employed by companies that wish to outsource the maintenance of the hardware and virtualization platform. Selecting and configuring services offered by the many vendors in the market are important skills for anyone working in a cloud environment. In this course, the student will explore many of the basic public cloud technologies offered and gain experience accessing and configuring the services offered by several cloud vendors.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description: This course addresses containerization, one of the key technologies used for application deployment. Containerization allows applications to be packaged in a way that allows portability between computing environments, increased efficiency and scalability, and a high level of security. The student will learn the concepts of containerization and gain the skills required to deploy containers in several environments.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.