Cloud Computing detailed syllabus for Information Technology (IT) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the IT students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Information Technology 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit IT 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to IT Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of cloud computing is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
CLOUD ARCHITECTURE MODELS AND INFRASTRUCTURE 6 Cloud Architecture: System Models for Distributed and Cloud Computing – NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture – Cloud deployment models – Cloud service models; Cloud Infrastructure: Architectural Design of Compute and Storage Clouds – Design Challenges
Unit II
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Unit III
VIRTUALIZATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND DOCKER 7 Desktop Virtualization – Network Virtualization – Storage Virtualization – System-level of Operating Virtualization – Application Virtualization – Virtual clusters and Resource Management – Containers vs. Virtual Machines – Introduction to Docker – Docker Components – Docker Container – Docker Images and Repositories.
Unit IV
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Unit V
CLOUD SECURITY 5 Virtualization System-Specific Attacks: Guest hopping – VM migration attack – hyperjacking. Data Security and Storage; Identity and Access Management (IAM) – IAM Challenges – IAM Architecture and Practice.
Practical Exercises:
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Course Outcomes:
- Understand the design challenges in the cloud.
- Apply the concept of virtualization and its types.
- Experiment with virtualization of hardware resources and Docker.
- Develop and deploy services on the cloud and set up a cloud environment.
- Explain security challenges in the cloud environment.
Text Books:
- Kai Hwang, Geoffrey C Fox, Jack G Dongarra, Distributed and Cloud Computing, From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2012.
- James Turnbull, The Docker Book, OReilly Publishers, 2014.
- Krutz, R. L., Vines, R. D, Cloud security. A Comprehensive Guide to Secure Cloud Computing, Wiley Publishing, 2010.
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