2026/27 · Official catalogue edition
The effective term printed in this PDF is Semester A 2025/26。
Offering record for 2026/27：Semester A 2026/27
What you will study
- Course overview and aims
- The course aims to provide students with the essential knowledge and practical skills in cloud administration and architecting. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a major cloud computing platform provider in the world. This course is integrated with the curriculum of AWS Academy Cloud Foundations (ACF) to deliver industry-recognized content that covers a wide range of fundamental concepts and considerations from business to technology.
- Keyword syllabus
- Cloud computing characteristics; virtualization and container technologies; cloud deployment models; cloud service models – SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS; cloud pricing model; cloud economics and challenges; key elements of classic data centers; shared responsibility model; authentication vs authorization; cloud storage models; RAID levels; data consistency models; data replication and fault tolerance; high availability system and architecture; availability vs reliability; horizontal scaling vs vertical scaling; load balancing algorithms; business continuity and disaster recovery strategies; Java distributed programming; MapReduce and Hadoop Introduction to AWS: AWS Global Infrastructure, Region and Availability Zone, Edge Location, Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Lambda, Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Block Store (EBS), Elastic File System (EFS), Glacier, Relational Database Service (RDS), DynamoDB, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Networking, Security Groups, Network ACL, Internet Gateway, NAT Gateway, Route 53, CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Auto Scaling Group, Cloud Watch
Official PDF, page 4 · Keyword Syllabus
- Intended learning outcomes
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CILO Intended learning outcome Weight DEC 1 Explain the cloud computing characteristics, key benefits, and underlying principles. — DEC-A1, DEC-A2 2 Identify the performance and security issues in the cloud and use appropriate AWS tools to design well-architected solutions. — DEC-A1, DEC-A2 3 Describe distributed and parallel computing models and implement cloud applications to process data efficiently. — DEC-A1, DEC-A2 Official PDF, page 2 · Course Intended Learning Outcomes (CILOs)
Before you take this course
Check prerequisites, precursors and corequisites separately, together with equivalence and exclusion conditions. “and” means conditions must be met together; “or” marks alternatives. Read combined conditions in the groupings shown in the original text below.
- Precursors
- Nil
- Corequisites
- This edition of the official syllabus does not state this item.
- Additional course requirements
- This edition of the official syllabus does not state this item.
- Equivalent courses and conditions
- Nil
- Exclusive courses and conditions
- Nil
Assessment and passing the course
- Assessment
- Continuous assessment: 50%; Examination: 50%; Examination duration: 2 hours
Assessment breakdown
Assessment task Weight Generative AI Remarks and restrictions TestsCILO 1, 2, 3 30% No - AssignmentsCILO 1, 2, 3 20% Yes - Official PDF, page 3 · Assessment Tasks / Activities (ATs)
View the original assessment table and instructions
Tests (min.: 2) | CILOs 1,2,3 | 30% | - | No #Assignments (min.: 3) | CILOs 1,2,3 | 20% | - | Yes
- Passing requirements
- Remark: To pass the course, students are required to achieve at least 30% in coursework and 30% in the examination. # may include homework, tutorial exercise, project/mini-project, presentation.
The catalogue assessment percentages are indicative; the course syllabus provides the detailed assessment scheme.
Credits, duration and edition details
- Title in this edition
- Cloud Computing Systems
- Credits in this edition
- 3
- Course duration
- One Semester
- Syllabus effective term
- Semester A 2025/26
- Levels printed in the syllabus
- B1, B2, B3, B4 - Bachelor's Degree
Check the official document
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