COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CLOUD COMPUTING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YBS 5034 CLOUD COMPUTING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Management Information Systems

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KUTAN KORUYAN

Offered to

Management Information Systems

Course Objective

To inform students about cloud computing and cloud service providers. Also, from the business and the technology view, to give students the ability to understand cloud computing, to decide to start using it and to able to use it.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To define cloud computing terms
2   To choose which cloud computing service models for a business company
3   To organise cloud technology for companies
4   To develop cloud computing applications.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to cloud computing and basic concepts
2 Cloud computing market
3 Cloud computing for business
4 General characteristics and service models of cloud computing
5 Cloud computing deployment models
6 Cloud computing service providers I
7 Cloud computing service providers II
8 Virtualisation
9 Management of cloud services
10 Cloud Security
11 Cloud Computing and Legal Issues
12 Cloud Computing Application Development
13 Student Presentations
14 Student Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
Hill, R., Hirsch, L., Lake, P. & Moshiri, S. (2013). Guide to Cloud Computing: Principles and Practice. London: Springer-Verlag.
Supplementary Book(s):
Furht, B. & Escalante, A. (2010). Handbook of Cloud Computing. Springer: New York.
Baun, C., Kunze, M., Nimis, J. & Tai, S. (2011). Cloud Computing: Web-Based Dynamic IT Services. New York: Springer.
Arrasjid, J.Y., Lin, B., Veeramraju, R., Kaplan, S., Epping, D. & Haines, M. (2011). Cloud Computing with VMware vCloud Directory. USA: USENIX Association.
Mather, T., Kumaraswamy, S. & Latif, S. (2009). Cloud Security and Privacy. USA: O Reilly.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

It s important for students to attend class and review lessons after the course. Also, the term project will be required for students to make detailed research about cloud computing and applications.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + RST * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

E-Mail: kutan.koruyan@deu.edu.tr
Telephone: +90 (232) 301 07 57

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Student Presentations 2 3 6
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 4 3 12
Preparation for final exam 5 3 15
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Preparing report 1 25 25
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.352212552433
LO.433241321252