As a student in the Cloud Computing Technologies one-year graduate certificate program, they will gain a comprehensive and in-depth technical base through courses in the high-demand areas of system and network administration, cloud productivity tools, cloud computing design and implementation, and cloud computing security from the most popular and fastest growing cloud providers. Upon completion of this program, students will have gained experience in Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon AWS. Experience in these cloud provider platforms ensures students will be workplace ready.

As a graduate of this program, students will possess the cloud computing design, administration and troubleshooting skills necessary to support any business and attract employers from all over the world. Through lab activities and projects, each course allows students to gain hands-on experience using technologies in real-world cloud computing scenarios. An optional work-integrated learning field placement is available for those who are not currently employed in IT and are looking to apply these new skills in the field.

Program Learning Outcomes • Create secure solutions that support highly available micro-services that meet client needs. • Implement enterprise level applications in hosted cloud environments that respond to client needs and business practices. • Architect and deploy fault tolerant solutions within cloud computing platforms to solve identified business requirements. • Automate security and resources for applications by using cloud computing tools to mitigate risk for organizations and protect assets. • Design and test code-based solutions to cloud computing problems that ensure security in depth. • Assess the viability of developing, deploying, maintaining and securing cloud computing solutions using a variety of resiliency testing tools. • Create and defend cloud-computing strategies used to solve identified business needs on behalf of a client. • Install and monitor a database management system on the cloud in response to specified requirements. • Design, develop, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and upgrade computing systems and network infrastructures for the cloud