Cloud Development and Operations

Description: This course focuses on career management skills needed to navigate the evolving workplace. Students will evaluate their skills, attitudes, and expectations within their chosen careers and explore emerging trends in the workplace. Students will refine their networking strategies and create marketing documents to position them for success. Mock interviews will provide the opportunity for practice, feedback, and reflection as students prepare for future interviews. Students will explore communication strategies that support workplace success and advancement. By the end of this course, students will have created a personalized career management plan.

• Hours: 28
• Credits: 2
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: $10.55

Description: This self-directed course focuses on introducing new students to the supports, services, and opportunities available at Conestoga College. By the end of this course, students will understand the academic expectations of the Conestoga learning environment, as well as the supports available to ensure their academic success. Students will also be able to identify on-campus services that support their health and wellness, and explore ways to get actively involved in the Conestoga community through co-curricular learning opportunities.

• Hours: 1
• Credits: 0
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

Developing and delivering software using DevOps is quickly becoming standard practice. This course will cover the background and history of DevOps and the fundamental activities needed to succeed in a DevOps environment. In this course, students will learn the basics of using descriptive and inferential statistics to analyze operational data. This course also emphasizes understanding fundamental statistical principles for DevOps environments.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

Designing and developing applications following DevOps practices requires members of the development team to apply the information security model of confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA) to the network infrastructure that supports the Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipeline. This course will provide students with the skills and knowledge to investigate the CIA requirements of their development pipeline by utilizing concepts including authentication and access control, data residency, data encryption, data transmission, and network components such as virtual private networks (VPNs), routers, firewalls and switches.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

In this course, students will learn common software design and documentation standards, including requirements gathering and specifications, design and testing documentation and specifications, and implementation and testing of software to meet those specifications. This course introduces students to monolith applications versus microservices, micro front ends, fully custom Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) systems and how to apply project management principles to build large software systems.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

Students will learn the practices and principles of system administration focused on Unix/Linux operating systems. Students will explore installation and configuration procedures, service management, file systems and disk management practices, system backup and recovery, networking fundamentals, user account management, and shell scripting through an applied and hands-on approach.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

Students will learn DevOps-related automation and system administration using an industry-relevant scripting language. Automating administration tasks such as server configuration, user management, database management, process management, and security management will be explored. Students will also experience testing services using scripts on virtual machines and the cloud infrastructure.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

Rapidly delivering quality software is the primary purpose behind DevOps. This course will cover practices needed to deliver quality code, from code reviews and unit testing to testing production code using test automation tools.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.