2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Aug 02, 2024  
2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog
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CIS 169 Introduction to Cloud Fundamentals (5 credits)



Prerequisite CIS 121 with a 2.0 or higher, concurrent enrollment, or instructor permission.

Course Description
An introductory course to cloud computing and cloud computing concepts from current cloud providers. Meets outcomes for introduction to cloud certifications.

Course Content
A. Cloud Services
B. Types of Cloud Computing
C. Core Resources 
D. Management Tools
E. Security
F. Privacy

Student Outcomes
  1. Identify the benefits of using cloud services, and categories of cloud services
  2. Identify different types of cloud computing
  3. Describe core Azure architectural components and core resources
  4. Use Azure core solutions and cloud management tools
  5. Identify and apply network security features
  6. Describe identity, governance, privacy and compliance 
  7. Identify methods for planning and managing costs, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and service lifecycles


Degree Outcomes
Core Abilities

  1. Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
  2. Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information, and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.

Program Outcomes

  1. Research, analyze and integrate information to learn current technologies
  2. Use information systems and networks in a responsible and secure manner


Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

Potential Methods
A. Demonstration
B. Observation
C. Individual projects
D. Group projects
E. Quizzes
F. Discussion



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