Lovely Professional University, Punjab

Course Code

Course Title

Course Planner

INT227

FUNDAMENTALS OF CLOUD COMPUTING

19385::Anupinder Singh

Course Weightage

ATT: 5

Course Orientation

CA: 20

MTT: 25

Lectures Tutorials Practicals Credits

3

ETT: 50

Exam Category: 55: Mid Term Exam: All Subjective End Term Exam: All
Subjective
KNOWLEDGE ENHANCEMENT, PLACEMENT EXAMINATION

TextBooks ( T )
Sr No

Title

Author

Publisher Name

T-1

CLOUD COMPUTING CONCEPTS, THOMAS ERL,

PEARSON
TECHNOLOGY AND
ZAIGHAM MAHMOOD
ARCHITECTURE
AND RICARDO PUTTINI
Reference Books ( R )

Sr No

Title

Author

Publisher Name

R-1

CLOUD COMPUTING BIBLE

BARRIE SOSINSKY

WILEY

Other Reading ( OR )
Sr No

Journals articles as Compulsary reading (specific articles, complete reference)

OR-1

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/domanm/csci411/Handouts/NIST.pdf ,

OR-2

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5189563 ,

OR-3

http://www.disa-apps.com/Services/DoD-Cloud-Broker/~/media/Files/DISA/Services/Cloud-Broker/nist-cloud-ref-architecture.pdf ,

OR-4

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1402967 ,

OR-5

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=6546058&abstractAccess=no&userType=inst ,

OR-6

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2331586 ,

Audio Visual Aids ( AV )

Sr No

(AV aids) (only if relevant to the course)

Salient Features

AV-1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3UMvBP2RRo

History of Cloud Computing

AV-2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae_DKNwK_ms

Introduction to Cloud Computing(salesforce AV)

AV-3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC0FSYFicpA

Virtualization & Cloud Computing Explained with LEGO Bricks

AV-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTNgV0O_oTg

How Cloud Computing Works

AV-5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqfNbpQyxA0

Understanding Roles Within Cloud Computing

AV-6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBE0XM_--x8

Fundamental Cloud Computing and SOA - Characteristics

An instruction plan is a tentative plan only and a teacher may make some changes in his/her teaching plan. The students are advised to use syllabus for preparation of all examinations. The students are expected to keep themselves
updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

AV-7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BLcFAQFkH8

Cloud Security - A Comprehensive Approach

AV-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtmCpqEO9A0

Data Center Consolidation & Cloud Transformation

AV-9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiahIcc5skI

Cloud Deployment Models

AV-10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pOVVc9PHB8

Cloud Service Models

AV-11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52bsMq_pzeY

What's a load balancer and how it's works.

Virtual Labs ( VL )
Sr No

(VL) (only if relevant to the course)

Salient Features

VL-1

http://www.cloudbus.org/cloudsim/

CloudSim- A java based simulator for cloud environment

LTP week distribution: (LTP Weeks)

Weeks before MTE

Weeks After MTE

Spill Over (Lecture)

Detailed Plan For Lectures

Week
Lecture
Number Number

Broad Topic(Sub Topic)

Week 1

Understanding Cloud
Computing(Origins and
Influences)

Lecture 1

Chapters/Sections of Other Readings,

Text/reference
Relevant Websites,
books
Audio Visual Aids,
software and Virtual
Labs
T-1

AV-1
AV-2
AV-4

Lecture Description

Learning Outcomes Pedagogical Tool Live Examples

Demonstration/
Case Study /
Images /
animation / ppt
etc. Planned

L1: Lecture Zero,

L2: Discuss about Brief
history of computing
and the path toward
emergence of Cloud
Computing, Various
driving elements w.r.t.
business adoption and
technology innovations
in field of cloud
computing

Basic understanding
of cloud computing
and its influence on
current market
scenario

During the lecture

certain basic
questions can be
asked to students
like:
1. What sort of
applications they
use on their mobile
phone.
2. Where
applications store
their data
and so on

Discuss about
facebook,
google,
pininterest,
instagram etc

An instruction plan is a tentative plan only and a teacher may make some changes in his/her teaching plan. The students are advised to use syllabus for preparation of all examinations. The students are expected to keep themselves
updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Week 1

Week 2

Lecture 2

Understanding Cloud
Computing(Origins and
Influences)

T-1

AV-1
AV-2
AV-4

L1: Lecture Zero,

L2: Discuss about Brief
history of computing
and the path toward
emergence of Cloud
Computing, Various
driving elements w.r.t.
business adoption and
technology innovations
in field of cloud
computing

Basic understanding
of cloud computing
and its influence on
current market
scenario

During the lecture

certain basic
questions can be
asked to students
like:
1. What sort of
applications they
use on their mobile
phone.
2. Where
applications store
their data
and so on

Discuss about
facebook,
google,
pininterest,
instagram etc

Lecture 3

Understanding Cloud
Computing(Basic Concepts
and Terminologies)

T-1

OR-3

Discuss about various

stakeholders of cloud
computing, Cloud
services, Resources,
scaling etc.

Identify the providers

and consumers of
cloud services as well
as the effect of
hardware scaling on
services offered by
provider and their
cost

Randomly choose
two students for a
small act, first
student will act as
cloud service
provider and ask to
indentify the key
point with prospect
of profit. Similarly
second student will
act as customer
and ask him to
identify what will
be his concern on
while opting for
services provided
by the first student.

Discuss about
the working
model of any
cloud service
provider

Lecture 4

Understanding Cloud
Computing(Goal and
Benefits)

T-1

OR-3

Discuss about:
1. Investment and cost
recovery factors with
providers prospective.
2. Scalability,
Availability and
Reliability of Cloud
setup
3. Various security
vulnerabilities that may
occur in case if not
taken care off properly.
4. Vendor lock-in issues
5. Compliance and legal
issues across multiple
regions.

Identifying various
factors that influence
both the providers
and consumers of
cloud setup. And how
both ends meet for
fulfilling their
business demands

Very briefly
compare the
working on Iphone
and Android
phone. Involve
those students in
class who own's an
Iphone and then try
to figure out what
are the various
activities they have
to perform in
context to
transferring their
data across the non
apple devices and
lead this discussion
towards vender
lock-in topic

Discuss about
various cloud
vender's
proprietor
services and
how a user is
sometime
locked in to
their
environment due
to the
incompatibility
between them

An instruction plan is a tentative plan only and a teacher may make some changes in his/her teaching plan. The students are advised to use syllabus for preparation of all examinations. The students are expected to keep themselves
updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Week 2

Lecture 4

Understanding Cloud
Computing(Risks and
Challenges)

T-1

Lecture 5

Fundamental Concepts and

Models(Roles and
Boundaries)

T-1

Fundamental Concepts and

Models(Cloud
Characteristics)

T-1

Discuss about:
1. Investment and cost
recovery factors with
providers prospective.
2. Scalability,
Availability and
Reliability of Cloud
setup
3. Various security
vulnerabilities that may
occur in case if not
taken care off properly.
4. Vendor lock-in issues
5. Compliance and legal
issues across multiple
regions.

Identifying various
factors that influence
both the providers
and consumers of
cloud setup. And how
both ends meet for
fulfilling their
business demands

Very briefly
compare the
working on Iphone
and Android
phone. Involve
those students in
class who own's an
Iphone and then try
to figure out what
are the various
activities they have
to perform in
context to
transferring their
data across the non
apple devices and
lead this discussion
towards vender
lock-in topic

Discuss about
various cloud
vender's
proprietor
services and
how a user is
sometime
locked in to
their
environment due
to the
incompatibility
between them

AV-5

Discuss about:
1. Cloud service
provider, consumer,
owner,resource
administrator, etc.
2. Organizational
boundaries
3. Trust boundaries
4. Basic Characteristics
of cloud computing

Distinguish between
a cloud computing
and a non- cloud
computing based
environment. As well
as various role
boundaries with
respect to cloud
resource
management.

Involving students
in discussion by
sharing a scenario
which will define
some attributes
about the service
providers
environment and
then students will
identify, Is it is a
cloud or non cloud
environment with
their reasons.

For boundaries
take examples of
Job roles in an
organization and
their decision
related
boundaries and
then lead it
towards the
cloud
management
boundaries.

OR-1
OR-3
AV-6

Discuss about:
1. Cloud service
provider, consumer,
owner,resource
administrator, etc.
2. Organizational
boundaries
3. Trust boundaries
4. Basic Characteristics
of cloud computing

Distinguish between
a cloud computing
and a non- cloud
computing based
environment. As well
as various role
boundaries with
respect to cloud
resource
management.

Involving students
in discussion by
sharing a scenario
which will define
some attributes
about the service
providers
environment and
then students will
identify, Is it is a
cloud or non cloud
environment with
their reasons.

For boundaries
take examples of
Job roles in an
organization and
their decision
related
boundaries and
then lead it
towards the
cloud
management
boundaries.

An instruction plan is a tentative plan only and a teacher may make some changes in his/her teaching plan. The students are advised to use syllabus for preparation of all examinations. The students are expected to keep themselves
updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Week 2

Lecture 6

Fundamental Concepts and

Models(Cloud Delivery
Models)

T-1

OR-1
OR-3
AV-9

Discuss in detail about:

1. Infrastructure as a
service
2. Platform as a service
3. Software as a service
and its characteristics

Distinguish between
various types of
services provided
under cloud
computing models

start a discssion in
class by using a
scenario of an
organization goals
and their needs

Discuss about
sales force,
amazon EC2,
google app
engine etc.

Week 3

Lecture 7

Fundamental Concepts and

Models(Cloud Deployment
Models)

T-1

OR-1
OR-3
AV-10

Discuss in detail about:

1. Public cloud
2. Private Cloud
3. Hybrid Cloud
4. Community Cloud
and their characteristics

Distinguish between
various types of
deployment models
and their
characteristics with
prospect of business
goals

Start a discussion
in class by using a
scenario of an
organization goals
and their needs

Discuss about
google apps
services, azure
services,
openstack,
openshift etc

Lecture 8

Cloud Enabling Technology

(Broadband Networks and
Internet Architecture)

T-1

Discuss about:
1. Role of Internet
service providers
2. Datagram Networks
3. Router based interconenctivity
4. Various technical
challenges

Reflect the internal

working of internet
and its role in support
of Cloud computing

Start a discussion
from basic network
working and then
lead it towards
how it supports the
cloud computing
environment

Discuss about
the basic
working of ISP
by utilizing
book example

Lecture 9

Cloud Enabling Technology

(Data Center Technology)

T-1

OR-4
AV-8

Discuss about:
Evaluates need of
1. Basics of
various components
Virtualization
of Cloud setup
2. Modularity, standards
and automation
3. Remote operations
and management etc
4. Computing, Storage
& Network Hardware

Lecture 10 Cloud Enabling Technology

(Virtualization Technology)

T-1

AV-3

1. Need of Hardware
Independence
2. Server consolidation
3. Resource Replications
4. Operating system and
Hardware based
Virtualization
5. Virtualization
Management

use oracle virtual

box or Vmware
player for demo or
the concept and
inculcate
discussion in class

Demo of
hypervisor:
oracle virtual
box and
Vmware Player.
Also take
example of how
traditional
operating
systems are
installed and
how it is done
on any
hypervisor

Week 4

Identify and
distinguish between
various types of
virtualization
techniques

An instruction plan is a tentative plan only and a teacher may make some changes in his/her teaching plan. The students are advised to use syllabus for preparation of all examinations. The students are expected to keep themselves
updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Week 4

Lecture 11 Cloud Enabling Technology

(Web Technology)

T-1

1. Basics of web
technologies and how it
changed the way of
accessing the
applications
2. Resources sharing
under multi-tenant
environment.
3. Basics of web
services, REST services,
service agents, service
middlewares etc w.r.t.
Cloud computing setup

Understanding of
SOA utility in cloud
computing and how it
brings efficiency and
portability in cloud
applications.

Start a discussion Demo of a

by asking question REST API
"how HTTP made
web possible", then
discuss about
various types of
web methods
supported by
HTTP and how it
leads to the
emergence of SOA

Cloud Enabling Technology

(Multi-tenant Technology)

T-1

1. Basics of web
technologies and how it
changed the way of
accessing the
applications
2. Resources sharing
under multi-tenant
environment.
3. Basics of web
services, REST services,
service agents, service
middlewares etc w.r.t.
Cloud computing setup

Understanding of
SOA utility in cloud
computing and how it
brings efficiency and
portability in cloud
applications.

Start a discussion Demo of a

by asking question REST API
"how HTTP made
web possible", then
discuss about
various types of
web methods
supported by
HTTP and how it
leads to the
emergence of SOA

Cloud Enabling Technology

(Service Technology)

T-1

1. Basics of web
technologies and how it
changed the way of
accessing the
applications
2. Resources sharing
under multi-tenant
environment.
3. Basics of web
services, REST services,
service agents, service
middlewares etc w.r.t.
Cloud computing setup

Understanding of
SOA utility in cloud
computing and how it
brings efficiency and
portability in cloud
applications.

Start a discussion Demo of a

by asking question REST API
"how HTTP made
web possible", then
discuss about
various types of
web methods
supported by
HTTP and how it
leads to the
emergence of SOA

An instruction plan is a tentative plan only and a teacher may make some changes in his/her teaching plan. The students are advised to use syllabus for preparation of all examinations. The students are expected to keep themselves
updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Week 4

Lecture 12 Fundamental Cloud Security

(Basic Terms and Concepts)

T-1

OR-2

1. brief discussions on
confidentiality, integrity,
authenticity,
availability, threat,
vulnerability,risk,
security controls,
security mechanisms,
security policies, etc
2. Various threat agents:
Anonymous attackers,
Malicious service agent,
trusted attacker and
malicious insider
3.Detailed discussion on
procedures of Traffic
Eavesdropping,
Malicious intermediary,
Denial of service,
Insufficient
authorization,
virtualization attack,
overlapping trust
boundaries.. Etc
4. Flawed procedures of
imp

Provides a brief
insight on various
issues related ot
cloud computing and
Insight on various
seurity related
concerns in Cloud
computing and ways
to overcome them

Start a general
discussion on
security and lead it
toward the
enterprise level
security and what
are the general
measures that are
taken care by
organizations.

Discuss about
sign in
procedure of
gmail and Use
of any network
traffic analyzer
will provide an
insight to the
students
regarding
eavesdropping
etc

Fundamental Cloud Security

(Threat Agents)

T-1

AV-7

1. brief discussions on
confidentiality, integrity,
authenticity,
availability, threat,
vulnerability,risk,
security controls,
security mechanisms,
security policies, etc
2. Various threat agents:
Anonymous attackers,
Malicious service agent,
trusted attacker and
malicious insider
3.Detailed discussion on
procedures of Traffic
Eavesdropping,
Malicious intermediary,
Denial of service,
Insufficient
authorization,
virtualization attack,
overlapping trust
boundaries.. Etc
4. Flawed procedures of
imp

Provides a brief
insight on various
issues related ot
cloud computing and
Insight on various
seurity related
concerns in Cloud
computing and ways
to overcome them

Start a general
discussion on
security and lead it
toward the
enterprise level
security and what
are the general
measures that are
taken care by
organizations.

Discuss about
sign in
procedure of
gmail and Use
of any network
traffic analyzer
will provide an
insight to the
students
regarding
eavesdropping
etc

An instruction plan is a tentative plan only and a teacher may make some changes in his/her teaching plan. The students are advised to use syllabus for preparation of all examinations. The students are expected to keep themselves
updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Week 4

Lecture 12 Fundamental Cloud Security

(Cloud Security Threats and
Considerations)

T-1

1. brief discussions on
confidentiality, integrity,
authenticity,
availability, threat,
vulnerability,risk,
security controls,
security mechanisms,
security policies, etc
2. Various threat agents:
Anonymous attackers,
Malicious service agent,
trusted attacker and
malicious insider
3.Detailed discussion on
procedures of Traffic
Eavesdropping,
Malicious intermediary,
Denial of service,
Insufficient
authorization,
virtualization attack,
overlapping trust
boundaries.. Etc
4. Flawed procedures of
imp

Provides a brief
insight on various
issues related ot
cloud computing and
Insight on various
seurity related
concerns in Cloud
computing and ways
to overcome them

Start a general
discussion on
security and lead it
toward the
enterprise level
security and what
are the general
measures that are
taken care by
organizations.

Discuss about
sign in
procedure of
gmail and Use
of any network
traffic analyzer
will provide an
insight to the
students
regarding
eavesdropping
etc

Week 5

Lecture 13 Cloud Infrastructure

Mechanism(Logical
Network Perimeter)

T-1

1. Procedures of
defining Logical
network perimeter using
virtual networks and
firewalls
2. Discussion on setup
and working of virtual
servers

Understanding of
configuration of
virtual networks and
servers

Case study
provided in Text
Book

Cloud Infrastructure
Mechanism(Virtual Server)

T-1

1. Procedures of
defining Logical
network perimeter using
virtual networks and
firewalls
2. Discussion on setup
and working of virtual
servers

Understanding of
configuration of
virtual networks and
servers

Case study
provided in Text
Book

Cloud Infrastructure
Mechanism(Cloud Storage
Device)

T-1

1. Procedures of
defining Logical
network perimeter using
virtual networks and
firewalls
2. Discussion on setup
and working of virtual
servers

Understanding of
configuration of
virtual networks and
servers

Case study
provided in Text
Book

An instruction plan is a tentative plan only and a teacher may make some changes in his/her teaching plan. The students are advised to use syllabus for preparation of all examinations. The students are expected to keep themselves
updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Week 5

Lecture 14 Cloud Infrastructure

Mechanism(Cloud Usage
Monitor)

Lecture 15

T-1

1. Discussion on various
cloud storage levels,
Network storage
interfaces, object storage
interfaces, database
storage interfaces, etc
2. Discuss in detail on
monitoring agents,
Resource agents, Polling
agents.
3. Discuss in detail
about various
procedures for resource
replication and defining
cloud resource
configuration.

Understanding
various levels of
storage in cloud as
well as various types
of agents that held in
monitoring of various
types of requests.
Also Evaluate the
usefullness of various
configurations for
resource
configurations

Case study
provided in Text
Book

Cloud Infrastructure
Mechanism(Resource
Replication)

T-1

1. Discussion on various
cloud storage levels,
Network storage
interfaces, object storage
interfaces, database
storage interfaces, etc
2. Discuss in detail on
monitoring agents,
Resource agents, Polling
agents.
3. Discuss in detail
about various
procedures for resource
replication and defining
cloud resource
configuration.

Understanding
various levels of
storage in cloud as
well as various types
of agents that held in
monitoring of various
types of requests.
Also Evaluate the
usefullness of various
configurations for
resource
configurations

Case study
provided in Text
Book

Cloud Infrastructure
Mechanism(Pre-defined
Cloud Computing)

T-1

1. Discussion on various
cloud storage levels,
Network storage
interfaces, object storage
interfaces, database
storage interfaces, etc
2. Discuss in detail on
monitoring agents,
Resource agents, Polling
agents.
3. Discuss in detail
about various
procedures for resource
replication and defining
cloud resource
configuration.

Understanding
various levels of
storage in cloud as
well as various types
of agents that held in
monitoring of various
types of requests.
Also Evaluate the
usefullness of various
configurations for
resource
configurations

Case study
provided in Text
Book

Test 1

An instruction plan is a tentative plan only and a teacher may make some changes in his/her teaching plan. The students are advised to use syllabus for preparation of all examinations. The students are expected to keep themselves
updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Week 6

Lecture 16 Cloud Computing

Mechanism(Automated
Scaling)

1. Working of
Understand the need
automated scaling
and procedures of
listener in cloud
load balancing
computing
2. Discussion on the
need of load balancing
and working of Load
balance in cloud
computing and its types

Case study
provided in Text
Book

1. Working of
Understand the need
automated scaling
and procedures of
listener in cloud
load balancing
computing
2. Discussion on the
need of load balancing
and working of Load
balance in cloud
computing and its types

Case study
provided in Text
Book

T-1

1. Detailed discussion
on QoS and various
factors that effects it.
2. Mechanism of Pay
per use in cloud
computing system

Analyze the need of

QoS in cloud
computing and
various pay as you
use models with
penalty for QoS
violations

Case study
provided in Text
Book

Cloud Computing
Mechanism(Pay Per Use
Monitor)

T-1

1. Detailed discussion
on QoS and various
factors that effects it.
2. Mechanism of Pay
per use in cloud
computing system

Analyze the need of

QoS in cloud
computing and
various pay as you
use models with
penalty for QoS
violations

Case study
provided in Text
Book

Cloud Computing
Mechanism(Audit Monitor)

T-1

1. Detailed discussion
on QoS and various
factors that effects it.
2. Mechanism of Pay
per use in cloud
computing system

Analyze the need of

QoS in cloud
computing and
various pay as you
use models with
penalty for QoS
violations

Case study
provided in Text
Book

Cloud Computing
Mechanism(Load Balancer)

Lecture 17 Cloud Computing

Mechanism(SLA Monitor)

T-1

T-1

AV-11
VL-1

An instruction plan is a tentative plan only and a teacher may make some changes in his/her teaching plan. The students are advised to use syllabus for preparation of all examinations. The students are expected to keep themselves
updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Week 6

Lecture 18 Cloud Computing

Mechanism(Fail-over
System)

T-1

1. Detailed discussion
on need of audit in cloud
systems and how it is
related to data security
and monitoring.
2. Procedures to make
cloud reliable and highly
available by establishing
a fail-over mechanism.
3. Types of hypervisors
and how effective they
are in implementation of
virtualization in
enterprise cloud setup.

Identify and
distinguish various
security, fail-over and
virtualization
mechanisms

Case study
provided in Text
Book

Cloud Computing
Mechanism(Hypervisor)

T-1

1. Detailed discussion
on need of audit in cloud
systems and how it is
related to data security
and monitoring.
2. Procedures to make
cloud reliable and highly
available by establishing
a fail-over mechanism.
3. Types of hypervisors
and how effective they
are in implementation of
virtualization in
enterprise cloud setup.

Identify and
distinguish various
security, fail-over and
virtualization
mechanisms

Case study
provided in Text
Book

Cloud Computing
Mechanism(Resource
Clusters)

T-1

1. Detailed discussion
on need of audit in cloud
systems and how it is
related to data security
and monitoring.
2. Procedures to make
cloud reliable and highly
available by establishing
a fail-over mechanism.
3. Types of hypervisors
and how effective they
are in implementation of
virtualization in
enterprise cloud setup.

Identify and
distinguish various
security, fail-over and
virtualization
mechanisms

Case study
provided in Text
Book

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updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Week 7

Lecture 19 Cloud Computing

Mechanism(Multi Device
Brokers)

Cloud Computing
Mechanism(State
Management Database)

T-1

1. Detailed discussion
on diversified resource
cluster systems.
2. Understanding of
broker mechanism and
its effectiveness in load
balancing the work on
cloud setup.
3. Caching mechanism
in a general system and
its implementation in
cloud system by use of
State management
database

Analyse and
implement the need
of various
mechanism in
enterprise cloud
resource setup for
greater efficiency

Case study
provided in Text
Book

T-1

1. Detailed discussion
on diversified resource
cluster systems.
2. Understanding of
broker mechanism and
its effectiveness in load
balancing the work on
cloud setup.
3. Caching mechanism
in a general system and
its implementation in
cloud system by use of
State management
database

Analyse and
implement the need
of various
mechanism in
enterprise cloud
resource setup for
greater efficiency

Case study
provided in Text
Book

SPILL OVER
Week 7

Lecture 20

Spill Over

Lecture 21

Spill Over

MID-TERM
Week 8

Lecture 22 Cloud Management

Mechanism(Remote
Administration System)

T-1

1. Detailed discussion
on usage &
administration, self
service portals with their
salient characteristics.
2. Discuss various
mechanism of resource
management systems

Identify various
categories of
management portals
for each category of
stakeholders

Start a discussion Case study of

using facebook's
DTGOV cloud
privacy settings
setup
and how a user can
set its own options
regarding data to
be displayed on
public portal and
then lead it
towards the cloud
platform
management.

An instruction plan is a tentative plan only and a teacher may make some changes in his/her teaching plan. The students are advised to use syllabus for preparation of all examinations. The students are expected to keep themselves
updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Week 8

Lecture 22 Cloud Management

Mechanism(Resource
Management System)

T-1

1. Detailed discussion
on usage &
administration, self
service portals with their
salient characteristics.
2. Discuss various
mechanism of resource
management systems

Identify various
categories of
management portals
for each category of
stakeholders

Lecture 23 Cloud Management

Mechanism(SLA
Management Systems)

T-1

Discuss about how

service level agreements
are made and how it is
implemented in
automatic management
of cloud QoS and
Billing management
system.

Understand the actual

implementation of
pay as you use model
including penalties
on provider side

Case study of
DTGOV cloud
setup

T-1

Discuss about how

service level agreements
are made and how it is
implemented in
automatic management
of cloud QoS and
Billing management
system.

Understand the actual

implementation of
pay as you use model
including penalties
on provider side

Case study of
DTGOV cloud
setup

R-1

1. Basics of capacity
planning, why it is
important and what are
the parameters taken in
consideration.
2. Various metrics
considered for planning
a network with future
prediction for an
application running on a
cloud setup up.
3. Various mechanisms
on scaling the cloud
resources

Identify the need of

various metrices
consideration for
planning the cloud
capacity for an future
ready enterprise/user
application.

Use any
analytics
software for its
representation

Cloud Management
Mechanism(Billing
Management System)

Lecture 24 Capacity Planning(Defining

Baseline and metrices)

Start a discussion Case study of

using facebook's
DTGOV cloud
privacy settings
setup
and how a user can
set its own options
regarding data to
be displayed on
public portal and
then lead it
towards the cloud
platform
management.

An instruction plan is a tentative plan only and a teacher may make some changes in his/her teaching plan. The students are advised to use syllabus for preparation of all examinations. The students are expected to keep themselves
updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Week 8

Week 9

Lecture 24 Capacity Planning(Network

Capacity Planning)

R-1

1. Basics of capacity
planning, why it is
important and what are
the parameters taken in
consideration.
2. Various metrics
considered for planning
a network with future
prediction for an
application running on a
cloud setup up.
3. Various mechanisms
on scaling the cloud
resources

Identify the need of

various metrices
consideration for
planning the cloud
capacity for an future
ready enterprise/user
application.

Use any
analytics
software for its
representation

Capacity Planning(Scaling)

R-1

1. Basics of capacity
planning, why it is
important and what are
the parameters taken in
consideration.
2. Various metrics
considered for planning
a network with future
prediction for an
application running on a
cloud setup up.
3. Various mechanisms
on scaling the cloud
resources

Identify the need of

various metrices
consideration for
planning the cloud
capacity for an future
ready enterprise/user
application.

Use any
analytics
software for its
representation

Identify various use

cases for workload
distributions and
resource pooling.
Also Analyse the
need to predicting the
workload behaviors
on the basis of
historical data.

Example of
work
distribution for a
10 floor building
development
and Discuss the
working of
Amazon EC2
platform

Lecture 25
Lecture 26 Cloud Architecture
(Workload Distribution)

Test 2
T-1

1. Discussion on various
parameters of workload
and its variations in
arrival.
2. Various factor in
considerations for
distribution of load on
the compute setup.
3. Various types of
resource pooling and its
pros & cons
4. Discussion on
workload arrival
patterns and ways to
manage it.
5. Various types of
resource scaling
mechanism and
elasticity of resources

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Week 9

Lecture 26 Cloud Architecture

(Resource Pooling)

Cloud Architecture
(Dynamic Scalability)

T-1

1. Discussion on various
parameters of workload
and its variations in
arrival.
2. Various factor in
considerations for
distribution of load on
the compute setup.
3. Various types of
resource pooling and its
pros & cons
4. Discussion on
workload arrival
patterns and ways to
manage it.
5. Various types of
resource scaling
mechanism and
elasticity of resources

Identify various use

cases for workload
distributions and
resource pooling.
Also Analyse the
need to predicting the
workload behaviors
on the basis of
historical data.

Example of
work
distribution for a
10 floor building
development
and Discuss the
working of
Amazon EC2
platform

T-1

1. Discussion on various
parameters of workload
and its variations in
arrival.
2. Various factor in
considerations for
distribution of load on
the compute setup.
3. Various types of
resource pooling and its
pros & cons
4. Discussion on
workload arrival
patterns and ways to
manage it.
5. Various types of
resource scaling
mechanism and
elasticity of resources

Identify various use

cases for workload
distributions and
resource pooling.
Also Analyse the
need to predicting the
workload behaviors
on the basis of
historical data.

Example of
work
distribution for a
10 floor building
development
and Discuss the
working of
Amazon EC2
platform

An instruction plan is a tentative plan only and a teacher may make some changes in his/her teaching plan. The students are advised to use syllabus for preparation of all examinations. The students are expected to keep themselves
updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Week 9

Lecture 26 Cloud Architecture(Elastic

Resource Capacity)

T-1

1. Discussion on various
parameters of workload
and its variations in
arrival.
2. Various factor in
considerations for
distribution of load on
the compute setup.
3. Various types of
resource pooling and its
pros & cons
4. Discussion on
workload arrival
patterns and ways to
manage it.
5. Various types of
resource scaling
mechanism and
elasticity of resources

Identify various use

cases for workload
distributions and
resource pooling.
Also Analyse the
need to predicting the
workload behaviors
on the basis of
historical data.

Lecture 27 Cloud Architecture(Service

Load Balancing)

T-1

Cloud usage monitor,

Resource cluster and
Resource replication

Outlines the
procedures of various
service load
balancing mechanism
and utilization of
resource replications

Week 10 Lecture 28 Cloud Architecture(Cloud

bursting)

T-1

Various mechnisms for

dynamic scaling of IT
resources in all
deployment models

Understanding the
requirement of
dynamic resource
scaling factors in
cloud setup

Lecture 29 Cloud Architecture(Elastic

Disk Provisioning)

T-1

Disk provisioning
Outlines various disk
mechanism, storage
provision mechanism
monitoring mechanism, in cloud computing
Logical unit numbers

Lecture 30 Cloud Architecture

(Redundant Storage)

T-1

Logical Drives, Storage Analyze the need of

Service Gateways,
replication and its
Storage Replications
management in cloud

T-1

Hypervisor clustering
architecture, Virtual
servers, Automated
scaling, Load balancing,
Logical networks, NonDisruptive service
relocation architecture

Week 11 Lecture 31 Cloud Architecture(Load

Balancing Virtual Server
Instances)

Example of
work
distribution for a
10 floor building
development
and Discuss the
working of
Amazon EC2
platform

ATN case study

provided in Text
book

Identify the various

factors leading to the
process of load
balancing the
workload with in a
cloud infrastructure.

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updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Week 11 Lecture 32 Cloud Architecture

(Dynamic Failure Detection
and Recovery Mechanism)

T-1

1. Resource Reservation
mechanism, Audit
monitoring, Fail-over
system, SLA monitor
and management.
2. Server images,
application packages,
sequence manager, OS
baseline, server
templates, application
configuration,
deployment data store,
storage workload
management

Explains the need of

monitoring to avoid
failures during
workload executions.
Also Identify various
ways to dynamic
provisioning of
resources to workload
(s) in cloud
computing setup

T-1

1. Resource Reservation
mechanism, Audit
monitoring, Fail-over
system, SLA monitor
and management.
2. Server images,
application packages,
sequence manager, OS
baseline, server
templates, application
configuration,
deployment data store,
storage workload
management

Explains the need of

monitoring to avoid
failures during
workload executions.
Also Identify various
ways to dynamic
provisioning of
resources to workload
(s) in cloud
computing setup

T-1

Various mechanisms on Determine the need

network load balancing of managing the
and its management
network in cloud
setup

T-1

Various service factors

and its consideration
from business point of
view

Evaluates various
metrics that leads to
the profit generation
for a cloud service
provider

Lecture 35 Cloud Delivery Models

(Cloud Users Prospective)

T-1

Various service delivery

points and its
consideration from
cloud user's application
deployment prospective

Evaluates various
considerations from
cloud service user's
prospective to
achieve the best QoS
for the service
offered by cloud
provider

Lecture 36 Cost Metrics and Price

Models(Business Cost
Metrics)

T-1

Various cost
considerations: Up-front
and on-going cost,
additional cost etc

Determine various
cost involved in
setting up the cloud
services by provider

Cloud Architecture(Rapid
Provisioning)

Lecture 33 Cloud Architecture(Load

Balanced Virtual Switches)

Week 12 Lecture 34 Cloud Delivery Models

(Cloud Providers
Prospective)

Discuss Case
study provided
in text book

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updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Week 13 Lecture 37

Test 3

Lecture 38 Cost Metrics and Price

Models(Cloud Usage Cost
Metrics)

T-1

Various metrics w.r.t.

cost: Network, server,
storage and services
usages and Various
categories of cost related
to design, development,
deployment and
maintenance of cloud
services

Determine various
cost that may be
incurred during the
usage of cloud
services by the cloud
users and Determine
different type of cost
in complete life cycle
of a cloud application

Discuss Case
study provided
in text book

Cost Metrics and Price

Models(Cloud Management
Considerations)

T-1

Various metrics w.r.t.

cost: Network, server,
storage and services
usages and Various
categories of cost related
to design, development,
deployment and
maintenance of cloud
services

Determine various
cost that may be
incurred during the
usage of cloud
services by the cloud
users and Determine
different type of cost
in complete life cycle
of a cloud application

Discuss Case
study provided
in text book

Lecture 39 Service Quality Metrics and

SLA(Service Quality
Metrics)

T-1

Various categories of
QoS related metrices
that effects the cost of
cloud setup
implementation

Identify various QoS

metrices for effective
service delivery in
cloud model

Discuss Case
study provided
in text book

Week 14 Lecture 40 Service Quality Metrics and

SLA(SLA Guidelines)

T-1

Various parameter
considerations for
service level agreement
and its effective
implementation through
automated cloud
management
mechanisms

Identify various
metrics and
considerations to
which cloud provider
and its user may
agree upon for the
complete life cycle
you service usage,
where QoS is the
major concern

OR-5
OR-6

SPILL OVER
Week 14 Lecture 41

Spill Over

Lecture 42

Spill Over

Week 15 Lecture 43

Spill Over

Lecture 44

Spill Over

Lecture 45

Spill Over

Scheme for CA:

CA Category of this Course Code is:A0203 (2 best out of 3)
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updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.

Component

Weightage

Test

50

Test

50

Test

50

Details of Academic Task(s)

Academic Task

Objective

Test 1

Detail of Academic Task

Nature of Academic
Task
(group/individuals)

Academic Task Marks

Mode

Allottment /
submission
Week

To check the
Will be covering syllabus from lecture 1 to lecture 12. All
subject
questions should be of 5 marks each or in multiples of 5.
understanding and
learning ability of
the students.

Individual

Offline

30 4 / 5

Test 2

To check the
Will be covering syllabus from lecture 13 to lecture 24. All
subject
questions should be of 5 marks each or in multiples of 5.
understanding and
learning ability of
the students.

Individual

Offline

30 8 / 9

Test 3

To check the
Will be covering syllabus from lecture 26 to lecture 36. All
subject
questions should be of 5 marks each or in multiples of 5.
understanding and
learning ability of
the students.

Individual

Offline

30 12 / 13

An instruction plan is a tentative plan only and a teacher may make some changes in his/her teaching plan. The students are advised to use syllabus for preparation of all examinations. The students are expected to keep themselves
updated on the contemporary issues related to the course. Upto 20% of the questions in any examination/Academic tasks can be asked from such issues even if not explicitly mentioned in the instruction plan.