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Cloud Computing Fundamentals

What the cloud actually is, what makes a service genuinely "cloud", and how to tell IaaS from PaaS from SaaS — with no prior experience assumed.

Almost everyone in IT is now expected to have an opinion about the cloud, and most people picked theirs up from marketing rather than from anything solid. This course fixes that. It starts from the beginning — what it ac…

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Venkat Kurela
KCA Certified Trainer
🌐 English⏱ 1h 34m content📚 12 lessons🏆 Certificate♾ Lifetime📱 All devicesBeginner
Cloud Computing Fundamentals
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1h 34m of on-demand video
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12 lessons across sections
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NASSCOM-aligned certificate
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What you'll learn

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Explain what cloud computing is, both in plain terms and in its formal definition
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Name the five essential qualities a service must have to genuinely count as cloud
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Tell IaaS, PaaS and SaaS apart, and say who manages what in each
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Choose between public, private, hybrid and community deployment for a given need
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Explain the shift from capital expenditure to operating expenditure and what it changes
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Ask the right compliance questions before committing to a cloud provider
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Recognise where cloud genuinely fits — hosting, disaster recovery, dev/test, analytics
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Course Curriculum

6 sections · 12 lessons · 1h 34m total

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1. Start Here
2 lessons
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Who This Course Is For▶ PREVIEW1m
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Meet Your Trainer▶ PREVIEW1m
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2. Foundations
2 lessons
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3. Defining the Cloud
2 lessons
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4. Service and Deployment Models
2 lessons
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5. Cloud in Practice
3 lessons
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Quizzes & Exams
3 checkpoint quizzes as you go, plus a final exam of 16 questions. 32 questions in total, included with the course.
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Requirements

No prior cloud experience — this course is the starting point
Basic computer literacy: roughly what a server, an operating system and a network are
No cloud account or credit card needed; this is a concepts course, not a hands-on lab course
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Venkat Kurela
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Course Details
🏷 CategoryCLOUD_INFRASTRUCTURE
📊 LevelBeginner
🌐 LanguageEnglish
⚡ AccessFree forever
📅 UpdatedAugust 2026
⏱ Duration1h 34m total
📜 Certificate✓ Included
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Cloud ComputingIaaSPaaSSaaSPublic CloudPrivate CloudHybrid CloudCapEx vs OpExCloud Fundamentals
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