Cloud Developer by Udacity: Fee, Duration, How to Apply

Quick Facts

particular	details
Medium of instructions English	Mode of learning Self study, Virtual Classroom	Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based

Course overview

With the rapid creation of innumerable statistical tools and the advancements in the field of technology, it has become essential to be an expert on some amazing subjects. One such subject is Cloud Development. Udacity is offering the Cloud Developer certification course for those enlightened minds who wish to build an advanced career in the field of digitalization.

This program has been designed in a manner that candidates pursuing this program will master the foundation of this course and apply those learnt skills in the real world. Some concepts that will be taught include Cloud Development, Security, Developing serverless Apps, Cloud Fundamentals and many more related topics.

The Cloud Developer training field has a lot of growth potential in the coming years and to make the candidate ready to strive in this competitive market, this course has been designed to include 5 course projects. These projects will enable the candidates to present their knowledge effectively to their employers.

Course and certificate fees

The fee for the Cloud Developer is summarized as follows:

Fees components	Amount
Annual fees	Rs. 20,500
Monthly fees - pay as you go	Rs. 10,250 /month

certificate availability

Yes

certificate providing authority

Udacity

Who it is for

Cloud engineer

Eligibility criteria

Work Experience

There is no requirement of any sort of prior work experience. All candidates who are interested in this course may apply. However, an experience will serve as a plus point during the course structure, but it is not compulsory at all.

Education

This program is for those with an intermediate programming skill in JavaScript. The other prerequisites include the knowledge of Web Development (HTML, CSS), Linux Command Line Basics, and Object Oriented Programming.

Certification Qualifying Details

The course duration is of four months wherein the candidate has to complete five course projects along with the lessons planned in the course duration. The candidate has to devote four months and ten hours per week. Upon successful completion of the course, you will get a Cloud Developer certification by Udacity.

What you will learn

Networking Knowledge of aws technology Knowledge of cloud computing

After the completion of this Cloud Developer certification syllabus the candidate will master in the following concepts:

Understand the core idea of cloud development and its fundamentals
Learn to build different apps leveraging microservices
Build serverless application technology
Deploy the serverless application using AWS Lambda
Develop cloud-native full-stack applications on AWS
Understand the importance of security in the cloud
Explore CLI
Explore the benefits and use of Travis to build CI/CD pipeline
Know the basics of Kubernetes
Have a capstone project
Learn the process of testing Serverless applications

The syllabus

Course 1: Cloud Fundamentals

Lesson 1: Cloud Overview

Learn the basics of cloud computing including cloud deployment models, benefits, and popular options
Explore services provided by Amazon Web Services(AWS)

Lesson 2: Foundational and Compute Services

Learn why we need servers, compute power, and security
Explore AWS compute services like Elastic Cloud Compute
(EC2), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Lambda for serverless framework, and Elastic Beanstalk in action
Launch a secure EC2 instance, create and execute a Lambda, and deploy an application to Elastic Beanstalk

Lesson 3: Storage and content delivery

Learn why we need storage and content delivery in the cloud
Learn storage services like S3, DynamoDB, Relational Database Service (RDS), and CloudFront
Create a DynamoDB table, launch a MySQL database instance, and create a CloudFront distribution

Lesson 4: Security

Learn the importance of security in the cloud
See Identity & Access Management (IAM) in action
Secure applications using IAM users, groups, and policies

Lesson 5: Networking & Elasticity

Learn the basics of networking and elasticity in the cloud
Examine services like Route 53, EC2 Auto Scaling, and
Elastic Load Balancing
Add an auto scaling policy to your EC2 instance

Lesson 6: Messaging & Containers

Learn the basics of messaging and containers in the cloud
Explore services like Simple Notification Service (SNS), Simple Queue Service (SQS), and Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Create cloud notifications using SNS

Lesson 7: AWS Management

Learn why we need logging, auditing, and resource management in the cloud
Understand services like Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
Explore the CLI

Course 2: Full Stack Apps on AWS

Lessen 1: Cloud Basics

Learn key terminology and building blocks of a cloud system
Understand design paradigm of modern cloud applications

Lessen 2: Set up Best Practices

Implement a process so you write quality code, working alone or on teams.
Lear unit and integration testing, a better way to git, and how to use packaged dependencies.

Lesson 3: Storing Data in the Cloud

Set up and start using a cloud-based relational database for storing user data using AWS RDS
Implement a filestore for media like images using AWS S3

Lesson 4: Deploying to the Cloud

Consume cloud data services (database and filestore) within your server application
Deploy your application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Lesson 5: User Authentication and Security

Learn common mistakes and modern techniques for dealing with security and new set of cloud authentication challenges

Lesson 6: Scaling and Fixing

Cloud systems need to be maintained as dependencies are updated and there is more demand for your service.

Course 3: Monolith to Microservices at Scale

Lesson 1: Microservices Design Principles and best Practices

Learn different microservices architecture designs how to divide an application into microservices

Lessen 2: Independent Releases and Deployments

Understand CI/CD benefits and use Travis to build CI/CD pipeline
Integrate github and CI/CD and automate testing with CI

Lesson 3: Containers using Docker

Build and run your first container image using Docker
Debug container and store these images using container registry

Lesson 4: Service Orchestration with Kubernetes

Implement service registration and discovery
Configure scaling and self-healing for each service

Lesson 5: Service Registration, Discovery and Scaling

Learn best practices for debugging microservices
Implement monitoring and logging for microservices
Understand how to build resilience in your application

Lesson 6: Debugging, Monitoring and Logging

Learn best practices for debugging microservices
Implement monitoring and logging for microservices
Understand how to build resilience in your application

Course 4: Develop & Deploy Serverless App

Lesson 1: Introduction to Serverless

Learn the main comp1nts of a serverless application
Implement simple application using Function as a Service

Lesson 2: REST APIs for Serverless

Build a simple REST API using serverless technologies such as API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and AWS DynamoDB and use it in React based web application

Lesson 3: Serverless Framework

Build, package and deploy serverless applications using Serverless framework
Implement additional features using advanced DynamoDB features

Lesson 4: Events Processing with Serverless

Improve our application using FaaS ability to execute custom logic when particular events occur in the system
Add WebSockets support and full-text search to your app

Lesson 5: Implementing Authentication

Implement authentication in a serverless application using popular serverless service Auth0 in your app API and client application.
Learn to store secrets for our serverless application using AWS Secrets Manager

Lesson 6: Serverless best Practices

Learn how to test serverless applications, minimize risk of vendor lock-in, create multiple stages of our API and improve security and observability of our application

Admission details

Filling the form

To apply for this program, the candidate has to follow a few steps:

Step 1- Go to the course page

Step 2- Click on the Enrol Now button.

Step 3- On clicking it, you will be directed to the fee details on the same page.

Step 4- Two options of payment will be presented, one for a monthly basis and the other one for payment upfront.

Step 5- Choose the relevant option and again click on the Enrol Now button present under the fee details.

Step 6- You will be redirected to a new page where you have to choose one option out of Quick Checkout and Sign In.

Step 7- The Quick Checkout is for the new students and the Sign In is for the returning student.

Step 8- Choose your option accordingly and will be redirected to a new page for payment.

Step 9- Make the payment and share the details with the course provider.

Step 10- The candidate will be contacted soon after the payment by the course provider.

Scholarship Details

Udacity gives scholarship options across all its nanodegree programme. The candidates can go to the course page to seek information pertaining to scholarships. Then, click on the ‘Notify Me’ tab and send the details ahead. By sending the details ahead, he/she will start getting notifications about the scholarships that are uploaded on the webpage.

How it helps

The field of Cloud Development is vast and it is expected to have tremendous growth in the future. It is a high on-demand course. By the end of this program, the candidate will gain a lot of benefits on the professional front.

The candidate will have an impressive portfolio of the real-world projects enabling them to go for the diversified job opportunities. He can apply for jobs of Cloud Developers, Full Stack Developers, Cloud engineers and many such. This course will serve as a plus point for software engineering roles.

This program is extremely beneficial for the experienced web/software developers as it offers an ideal path to advance in their career.

Instructors

Ms Kesha Williams
Instructor
Freelancer

Mr Gabriel Ruttner
Instructor
Freelancer

Other Bachelors

Mr Justin Lee
Instructor
Freelancer

Other Bachelors

Mr Ivan Mushketyk
Instructor
Amazon.com Inc.

FAQs

What job opportunities can be expected after the completion of this course?

After the completion of this course, the candidate can become a Cloud Developer. Other job opportunities include Full Stack Developer and Cloud engineers. Other than these, a learner of this program will get better opportunities in adjacent software engineering roles.

How can this course be beneficial in the field of digitalization?

This is a high on-demand skill. The learner of this course will pave his path to various job opportunities. Learning the basics of this course will enable the participant to actively participate in the exploration of the web tools and services offered by AWS.

What kind of experience is required to enrol in this program?

The candidate enrolling for this program needs to have some experience in the intermediate programming skills in JavaScript. He also needs to be familiarized with topics such as Linux Command Line Basics and Web Development (HTML, CSS).

Does the learning of this program require some specific versions and software?

A strong broadband connection is a must so that the candidate can learn without any interruption in the network connectivity. Apart from this, Mac OS x, recent versions of desktop or Laptop or Linux will be needed.