7/30/2019 cloud workshop details

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7/30/2019 cloud workshop details

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FAQs for the participantswho take the certificationexamination:

1. Who can attend the workshop and achieveCertification on Cloud Computing Fundamentals?

Ans: Higher degree students, IT professionals andnon-IT professionals can attend this workshopwithout having any pre-requisite since it coversfundamental topics from basic principles of Cloudcomputing.

2. What is the benefit of the certification?

Ans: Cloud certifications are important fordeveloping job skills required in cloud computing.By getting this basic foundation, students and ITas well as non-IT professionals can develop Cloudskills.

3. What is Aneka cloud platform?

Ans: Manjrasoft Aneka is a US patented Cloudapplication platform for rapid creation of scalableapplications and their deployment on varioustypes of Clouds in a seamless and elastic manner.It provides the capability of interfacing withdifferent storage implementations such as GoogleFile System, IBM General Parallel File System orAmazon Simple Storage Service.

One of the key advantages of Aneka is itsextensible set of APIs used for developingdistributed applications in various engineeringand business areas, integrating new capabilitiesinto the Cloud, and supporting different types of Cloud deployment models: public, private, andhybrid.

4. How does this certification compare withother certifications?

Ans: This certification is based on the moreuniversal concepts of Cloud computing, whilemost of other certifications are product-oriented.

In addition, this certificate becomes the firststep to education pathway that we are offeringin 2013 - postgraduate diploma (CertifiedCloud Computing Professional) which coversmany cloud platforms (from big players suchas Amazon, Google, etc) with ManjrasoftAneka easy to use APIs and PaaS features.

The courseware consisting of theory, hands-onworkshops are based on several bookspublished by Prof. Rajkumar Buyya since 1999in topics such as Cluster Computing, GridComputing and Mastering Cloud Computing.

Aneka was developed in 2008 to provide an

implementation of the MapReduce abstractionsby following the standards-based referencemodel introduced by Google and implementedby Hadoop. Other certifications cover onlysmall modules focussing on their own specificproduct.

5. How difficult is the exam?

Ans: The exam is based on the slides

presented in the workshop. All attending theworkshop should be able to pass the examwhich consists of 20 True/False questions.