IIT Kharagpur and NPTEL invite applications for Free Online Course on Cloud Computing

IIT Kharagpur has organised this course while keeping in mind the growing usage of Cloud Computing in every industry. The course introduces the various concepts of the cloud. CC 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.

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. But anyone can enrol in the course. The only prerequisite is you should know basic computer architecture and organisations and networking. . You also should have the desire to expand the horizon of your knowledge. Moreover, this course is a must-take as Cloud Computing is so fundamental that all companies dealing with data need it. These include all of the IT industry.

Timeline of the course

This Elective course has a duration of 8 weeks. The last date to apply is March 2021. If you want the certificate, you have to give 15 February 2021. Exam registration begins from January 15 to 12 March 2021. The exam is scheduled for April 25.

Who will teach this DBMS course?

Prof. Soumya Kanti Ghosh will lead the course. Prof. Soumya Kanti 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.