2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Jul 04, 2025  
2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog
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CIS 262 Cloud Data Fundamentals (5 credits)



Prerequisite CIS 260 with 2.0 or higher, or instructor permission.

Course Description
Course introduces core data concepts to work with data in the cloud. Develop, create and organize data workloads, data analytics, data services and management tasks. Outcomes map to Cloud Data Certification.

Course Content
A. Data concepts B. Data workloads C. Data services D. Data query(s) E. Data warehouse(s)

Student Outcomes
 

  1. Describe cloud data concepts such as data workloads, and data analytics core concepts
  2. Organize relational data using workloads and data services
  3. Develop and run query and management tasks
  4. Demonstrate working with non-relational data using workloads, data offerings, and management tasks
  5. Describe analytics workloads, data warehouse components, and data loading


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 Literacy:Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.

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 G. Peer review



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