IIT Kharagpur invites applications for Free Online Course on Cloud computing via NPTEL

IIT Kharagpur has organised this course while keeping in mind the value of Cloud Computing to all. Cloud computing is a scalable services consumption and delivery platform that provides on-demand computing service for a shared pool of resources, namely servers, storage, networking, software, database, applications etc., over the Internet. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources, which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort.

According to IIT Kharagpur, This course will introduce various aspects of cloud computing, including fundamentals, management issues, security challenges and future research trends. This will help students (both UG and PG levels) and researchers to use and explore the cloud computing platforms.

Who can enrol in the course?

This is an Undergraduate computer science level course for BE/ME/MS/MSc/PhD students. But anyone can enrol in the course. The only prerequisite is you should have some exposure to the Basics of Computer Architecture and Organization, Networking.

Timeline of the course

This Elective course has a duration of 12 weeks. It will start from 18 January 2021 and end on 09 April 2021. If you want the certificate, you have to give a proctored exam on 25 April 2021. The last date to enrol is 25 January 2020.

Who will teach this course?

Prof. Soumya K. Ghosh received the PhD and M.Tech. degrees from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. Presently, he is a Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. Before joining IIT Kharagpur, he worked for the Indian Space Research Organization in the area of satellite remote sensing and geographic information systems. He has more than 200 research papers in reputed journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include spatial data science, spatial web services and cloud computing.

What will the course teach?

This is an 8-week-long course. Here’s the itinerary for the course.

W1: Introduction to Cloud Computing
W2: Cloud Computing Architecture
W3: Service Management in Cloud Computing
W4: Data Management in Cloud Computing
W5: Resource Management in Cloud
W6: Cloud Security
W7: Open Source and Commercial Clouds, Cloud Simulator
W8: Research trend in Cloud Computing, Fog Computing

How to obtain a certificate from IIT Kharagpur?

The course is free to enrol and learn. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the optional proctored exam. The fee for this exam is ₹ 1000. Also, the successful completion of the exam does not guarantee a certificate. To get a certificate, you need to get 25% from the assignments and 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100.

Final score = Average assignment score (>10/25) + Exam score (>30/75). If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will still not get the certificate even if the Final score > 40/100.

This printable certificate will carry the stamp from both NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur. Further, you can enrol in the course here.