2024-2025 Graduate Course Catalog 
    
    Nov 05, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Course Catalog

Cloud Management, CAS


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Contact: 

Jeff Saltz
Program Director
(315)443-2911
igrad@syr.edu

Website: 

https://ischool.syr.edu/academics/cas-program-cloud-management/

Overview: 

The Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) in Cloud Management comprises three tracks: cloud solutions management, cloud data management, and cloud networking and security management. The CAS is designed to equip students with the skills necessary for careers focused on cloud management, administration and policy.  Students must complete one 3-credit primary core course and four additional courses to complete the CAS.

The CAS is available to those with or without prior experience in the information technology field. Applicants may be currently working in a related field, or they may be interested in making a career change into the cloud computing field. The certificate also provides an opportunity for professional development and serves as a foundation for career advancement.

Student Learning Outcomes


  1. Analyze technical and policy issues, ethics, and diverse user behavior that either impact or are impacted by cloud computing
  2. Plan, design, prototype, provision, implement, manage, evaluate, visualize, and explain cloud solutions architecture, cloud data architecture, and cloud networking and security applications in enterprise computing environments
  3. Manage the complex interactions between technical cloud computing and digital transformation strategy in the modern enterprise  
  4. Develop and deliver effective professional communications for diverse target audiences

Primary Core (3 credits)


Secondary Focus Areas (12 credits)


Students choose the remainder of their classes from one focus area below.  Each focus area has one or two additional required courses that need to be completed, as well as a list of electives from which students need to choose the remainder of their classes from.  Pre-requisites will be enforced.

Cloud Solutions Management


Students must complete two required courses in this focus area: IST 643 and IST 714. The other remaining classes come from the list of electives.

Cloud Data Management


Students must complete two required courses in this focus area: IST 643 and IST 722.  The other remaining classes come from the list of electives.

Cloud Networking and Security Management


Students must complete one required course in this focus area: IST 725.  The other remaining classes come from the list of electives.

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