Cloud Computing Fundamentals

This course teaches you about cloud benefits for users and businesses. The individual has a conceptual understanding of how to create a container, deploy a web app to the cloud, and analyze security in a simulated environment. The earner is aware of the job outlook in cloud computing and the skills required for success in various roles.

What you’ll learn:

• Define cloud computing, describe its characteristics, explain how local servers and the internet enable computers to share information, and identify problems that cloud computing solves

• Identify the characteristics of various cloud service models, proprietary and open source cloud solutions, services offered by the major cloud providers, and the value of cloud services to businesses

• Describe on-premises hosting, cloud migration plans, and cloud deployment models, including public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions

• Describe virtual resources, containers in the cloud, microservices in the cloud, application programming interfaces (APIs), and best practices for virtualization in cloud computing

• Create, install an application; test a Docker container

• Describe the process to develop software in the cloud and the benefits of cloud orchestration

• Build and deploy a Docker container to the cloud

• Identify the importance of cloud security, vulnerabilities in cloud data security, features of identity and access management (IAM), database as a service (DBaaS) and its benefits, and the ways cloud databases support data governance and compliance

• Create and review the security settings of an IBM Cloudant database

• Recognize the job market, responsibilities, and skill sets of cloud computing professionals

• Learn about resources and learning opportunities to explore

Earn the IBM Cloud Computing Fundamentals skills badge upon completion.

Time to complete: 20 hours