Study guide: Cloud Computing and Virtualization

📋 Course Outline

1. Cloud Computing Foundations
2. Cloud Architecture and Services
3. Virtualization Technologies
4. Virtualization Infrastructure and Docker

📖 1. Cloud Computing Foundations

📝 Essential Points

• Module I, Introduction to Cloud Computing, contains 5 topics, is allocated 8 hours, and carries 12 marks.

• The foundations topics are: cloud computing in a glance, historical context and evolution, building cloud computing environments and cloud components, desired features of cloud, advantages of cloud

💡 Memory Hook

Glance → history → components → features → advantages

📖 2. Cloud Architecture and Services

📝 Essential Points

• Module II, Cloud Computing Architecture, contains 6 topics, is allocated 14 hours, and carries 20 marks.

• The architecture topics are:

  • the cloud reference model
  • private clouds
  • public clouds
  • hybrid clouds
  • community clouds
  • IaaS
  • PaaS
  • SaaS
  • open challenges

💡 Memory Hook

Private, public, hybrid, and community clouds differ by deployment context

📖 3. Virtualization Technologies

📝 Essential Points

• Module III, Virtualization Technologies, contains 7 topics, is allocated 16 hours, and carries 23 marks.

• The virtualization topics are:

  • virtual machine basics
  • hypervisors
  • virtualization structure
  • implementation levels of virtualization
  • full virtualization
  • para-virtualization
  • hardware virtualization
  • virtualization of CPU and memory
  • virtualization of I/O devices

💡 Memory Hook

VM basics → hypervisor → structure → levels → types → CPU/memory → I/O

📖 4. Virtualization Infrastructure and Docker

📝 Essential Points

• Module IV, Virtualization Infrastructure and Dockers, contains 6 topics, is allocated 10 hours, and carries 15 marks.

• The infrastructure and Docker topics are:

  • desktop virtualization
  • network virtualization
  • storage virtualization
  • containers versus virtual machines
  • basics of Dockers
  • Docker components
  • Docker containers
  • Docker images and repositories

💡 Memory Hook

Containers share a host kernel, whereas virtual machines virtualize complete systems