IIT Patna launches free online course in cloud computing; check details here

The candidates who complete the course will have deep knowledge about the internals of cloud computing and how the distributed systems concepts work inside clouds, IIT Patna said in a statement.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna has announced that it has launched a free online course on ‘Cloud Computing’ through NPTEL. IIT Patna has launched the course considering the growing usage of cloud computing in every industry.  Cloud Computing is a business model that delivers computations, storage, applications, and other IT resources through cloud services platforms over the Internet. Cloud Computing Systems are built today by using the fundamental principles and models of distributed systems. 

IIT Patna discussed the concepts and techniques and stated that it will also look at the aspects of Industrial systems such as Apache Spark, Google’s Chubby, Apache Zookeeper, HBase, MapReduce, Apache Cassandra, Google’s B4, Microsoft’s Swan and many others. 

The candidates who complete the course will have deep knowledge about the internals of cloud computing and how the distributed systems concepts work inside clouds, IIT Patna said in a statement. The free online Cloud Computing course is an undergraduate computer science level course.

The course can be opted by candidates from any stream. The only eligibility criterion is that candidates should have knowledge about data structures and algorithms. Candidates with knowledge of Computer Architecture, Basic OS and Networking concepts are preferred. To take up this free online course, candidates should desire to expand the horizons of their knowledge. 

The time duration of the free online cloud computing course offered by IIT Patna is 8 weeks. The course commences on January 18, 2021, and concludes on March 12, 2021. The final examination will be held on March 21, 2021. 

To receive a certificate after the completion of the course, candidates need to appear and clear the final examination which will be held on proctored mode. The last date to register for the course is January 25, 2021.

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