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Computer Science

C S 55B

DATABASE ESSENTIALS IN AMAZON WEB SERVICES

4.5 units

CSU

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Description: This course addresses database fundamentals and cloud database design patterns and management. A wide variety of database needs are presented, such as structured, semi-structured, and unstructured datasets, and how those are supported in the cloud. Students learn to deploy a SQL database on infrastructure components and perform basic data operations on that infrastructure. Students then take those basic concepts and learn managed platform as a service solutions, such as Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis stream processing/analytics, in memory database accelerators, and ML big data tools. Basic database administration skills, such as migration, backups, restoration, retention, service configuration, high availability, and service scaling, are presented.
Prerequisite:
Corequisite:
Advisory: Advisory: C S 30A, C S 50A, C S 55A and C S 55C.
Repeatability: Not Repeatable.
Hours: 4 hours lecture per week, 2 hours lab per week. 72 hours total per quarter.
Foothill GE Area:
Transferability: CSU
Transfer GE: Information regarding how this course is applied toward CSU GE/Breadth or IGETC certification is available at:
Foothill Transfer GE Guide