The Cloud Course

Name: The Cloud Course
Rating: 4.8 (15 reviews)

A course for anyone interested in gaining a strong foundation in cloud computing, computer networking and cybersecurity

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Created bySameer Rai

Last updated 3/2021

English

What you'll learn

Cloud Computing, Cloud Networking, Computer Networking, Cybersecurity, Virtualization, Containers, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture

Course content

1 section • 16 lectures • 1h 42m total length

Introduction to Computers8:10
Explore how computers perform arithmetic, process and store data through programs, cpu, and memory, and understand binary, bits, and bytes as the foundation of machine code.
Computer Architecture6:59
Explore the basics of computer architecture, focusing on processing and memory, the cpu with its controller, alu, and registers, and primary versus secondary memory like ram and ssds, addresses.
Operating Systems5:36
Explore how an operating system manages cpu time through scheduling and multitasking. It allocates memory in blocks and coordinates the kernel and devices to run software tasks.
Virtualization and VMs5:11
Explore how virtualization enables one physical computer to act as multiple virtual machines, managed by a hypervisor, allowing different guest operating systems and efficient resource use.
Containers4:08
Explore how containers solve virtualization shortcomings by sharing the host OS kernel with lightweight environments, using Docker Engine and Kubernetes to form pods, nodes, and clusters.
Clients and Servers4:11
Differentiate clients and servers as a client requests data and a server responds. Show how web, application, and database servers work together in back end to deliver a web page.
Networks 112:12
Explore the OSI and TCP/IP models, from application protocols to the physical layer, and learn about ports, TCP/UDP, and encapsulation and decapsulation in internet communication.
Networks 25:10
Explore how LANs and WANs use switches and routers to forward data by MAC addresses, compare IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, and explain MAC versus IP in dynamic networks.
Networks 37:34
Explore ip addressing fundamentals, including network versus device portions. Learn subnetting with a /25 mask and how private and public ips interact via nat and router translation.
Computer and Network Security7:36
Explore common cyber attacks, including phishing, malware, DDoS, SQL injection, and man-in-the-middle, and defense strategies like firewalls, RBAC, IAM, and SIEM.
Introduction to the Cloud8:23
Explore cloud computing as a business model that centralizes data centers and servers with cloud service providers, enabling autoscaling, virtualization, lower costs, and reliable disaster recovery.
IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS4:24
Explore the differences between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and learn how data centers, cloud resources, and level of control shape IT choices for developers and businesses.
The Cloud Market and Deployment Models5:11
Examine the cloud market from an IaaS perspective, outlining dominant players (AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, GCP), deployment models (hybrid, multi-cloud, cloud-only), and the role of SaaS/PaaS and on-prem data.
Common Cloud Services8:38
Explore AWS core cloud services and concepts, including VPC, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, and monitoring with CloudWatch and CloudTrail, plus containers, load balancing, and APIs.
Cloud Security4:17
Explore cloud security threats and defenses, including multitenancy, misconfigurations, and the shared responsibility model; learn how cloud access security brokers and hybrid multi-clouds secure environments.
Future of the Cloud4:31
Explore the future of the cloud with serverless computing and edge computing, offering pay-per-use pricing and on-device processing for ultra-low latency across IoT devices.

Requirements

None other than basic arithmetic (addition, exponents). No coding either.

Description

Having spent countless hours trying to find the relevant cloud information to excel as the head of cloud product marketing at a multi-billion dollar AI cybersecurity company, I realized that a structured, well-designed, and easy to follow course on the topics related to the cloud simply did not exist. I then took it upon myself to create this course and have tremendous, absolute faith in its value. No prerequisites but you'll leave with tons of new information.

We cover nuances and don't just gloss over topics. For example, we help you understand when SaaS is considered part of your organization's portion of "shared responsibility", or why computers have both a unique MAC Address and IP Address when you in theory only need one identifier (the answer is NOT because one is layer 2 and one is layer 3!).

At a little less than 2 hours in length, this course delivers a tremendous amount of information in a short amount of time and manages to do so extremely clearly. Knowledge of the material in this course will make you extremely employable in the cloud, computer networking and cybersecurity spaces.

If you want to take your career to a stratospheric new level, take this course, apply the wealth of knowledge that you gain, and never look back!

Who this course is for:

Less technical folks (product management, sales and marketing) interested in learning a lot about the cloud
Anyone interested in knowing the concepts of cloud computing, networking and cybersecurity in proper depth but without the need for coding.