Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Explain the layered architecture of cloud-based systems, the requirements for each layer, and the services provided by each layer.
  Level: Understand
• Distribute a computation across a set of unreliable computational instances while maintaining a set of well-defined service level criteria such as response availability, consistency, and latency.
  Level: Apply
• Explain the requirements imposed on a design by a service level agreement (including inward-facing objectives for subservices).
  Level: Understand
• Make appropriate tradeoffs of consistency versus availability for different features in a design.
  Level: Create
• Build a system using cluster-level infrastructure.
  Level: Create
• Analyze and tune the performance of a system constructed from cloud infrastructure.
  Level: Evaluate
• Classify whether a given event is a breach of privacy or security and suggest an approach to preventing such an event.
  Level: Understand
• Classify which attribute of reliability engineering is present (or absent) in a system.
  Level: Understand
• Incorporate one reliability engineering principle in a system you build.
  Level: Create

The outcomes levels are taken from the revised Bloom taxonomy. ‘Remember’ is the simplest level, while ‘Create’ is the most sophisticated.