This course validates the knowledge and skills required to make clear and conscious decisions about cloud technologies and their business impact by evaluating business use cases, financial impacts, cloud technologies, and deployment models with knowledge of cloud computing. This course focuses on the fundamental concepts of cloud computing. Students learn the business aspects and impact of cloud computing, identify the technical challenges, and identify the steps to successfully adopt cloud services. This course will also identify the basic concepts of ITIL and describe how the ITIL framework is useful in the implementation of cloud computing in an organization. For the purpose of this course the exam will be held on the third day of class. The following two days will consist of additional security aspects of cloud computing and “securing the cloud.”

• Basic understanding of the IT environment and exposure to cloud technologies