Cloud Computing IBM Skills Academy
IBM Skills Academy
Cloud Services
IBM
Skills Academy Course
Cloud Services
Bring your ideas to life and innovate in every industry by applying next-gen, platform as a service (PaaS) microservices that can easily integrate into real-world solutions.
Cloud platforms span public, private and hybrid environments.
They offer managed services which allow for rapid design, prototype and build of application solutions with a robust suite of advanced data and artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and draw on deep industry expertise to help innovative companies looking for digital transformation in their journey to the cloud.
About IBM Skills Academy for Cloud Services
This course explores the topics, technology and skills required to gain practice in the successful implementation of cloud-based solutions.
Cloud Computing Practitioners –
Create disruptive cloudbased solutions that can provide unique customer experiences using user-centric design practices, agile methodologies and the integration of cloud-based security, data and AI capabilities.
Audience
Individuals with an active interest in applying for entry level jobs relevant to working with cloud-based solutions.
Prerequisite skills for this course:
- Basic IT literacy skills
- Fundamentals of data centers, such as integration of systems and networks, detached network storage, sharing of resources.
Journey
80 Hours - represents a combination of class time, lab exercises, assigned reading and projects
25% Concepts
Concepts Expanding the knowledge and understanding of the topic through lecture training, examples, videos and quizzes.
35% Technologies
Technologies Actual implementation of the concepts learned through simulations, hands-on labs and games.
40% Industry Use Cases
Industry Use Cases Realization of the real-world impact of the topics covered through the exposure to industry case studies.
Objectives
- Understand the evolution and impact of cloud computing in the world today.
- Explore cloud by industry domains: retail, media and communication, telecom media and entertainment, financial services.
- Explore end-to-end case studies for every key cloud industry and identify common patterns: public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud.
- Understand technical aspects of cloud solutions: software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service.
- Build cognitive solutions, leveraging AI and data science in cloud solutions.
- Understand industry practices to design and build agile cloud solutions, using the Cloud Garage methodology.
- Work in teams jointly exploring real-world cloud scenarios.
- Prototype bespoke cloud solutions leveraging industry-proven concepts, technologies and methodologies.
