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About upGrad 1

Program Highlights 2

Our Academic Experts 3

The upGrad Advantage 6

Learning Path 7

Tools 8

Program Syllabus 10

Sample Industry Courses 13

Program Details and Admission Process 14

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About upGrad

upGrad legacy
upGrad is an online education provider that helps education at scale in partnership with corporates
individuals to develop their professional potential in and academics for a rigorous and industry-relevant
the most engaging learning environment. Online program. We have been at the forefront of offering
education is a fundamental and much-needed industry-relevant programs and courses in the field
disruption that will have a far reaching impact. At of Data Science, Analytics, AI-ML, Full-Stack
upGrad, we are working towards transforming this Development, and Cloud Computing among others.
online education wave into a tsunami! We are taking We incorporate practical hands-on projects and
a full-stack approach of leveraging content, case studies to provide students with real-world
technology, marketing and services to offer quality experience and enhance their skills.

About 10 million+ 5 out of 6 93% 6000+ 1200+

upGrad learners learners program career hiring
in 100+ get positive completion transitions partners
countries career growth rate

Our aim is simple:

We strive to create high-impact, on-
campus hands-on experiences that
prepare students for meaningful and
productive careers.

Ronnie Screwvala
Co-founder and Executive Chairman
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Program Highlights

1
Mentored Industry Projects
In collaboration with top product
and tech companies

Cloud Mastery Program

Comprehensive coverage of over
80+ services across AWS, Azure, and GCP

3 AI Integrated Curriculum
- Learn how GenAI-based
4 DevOps Mastery Program 5 Exclusive Cloud Labs
- Learn how to implement - Get access to integrated
tools are enhancing
the DevOps pipeline. labs for a hands-on experience
the Cloud and DevOps
- Advanced DevOps concepts with 50+ industry projects
industry
such as DevSecOps and SynOps.

6 Certification-driven
Curriculum* 7 Certified Expert Instructors
- Learn from AWS-
8 50+ Live Training Sessions
- Attend over 50 live sessions covering
- Opt for Azure or and Azure-certified key cloud concepts and skills.
AWS Cert Prep experts with industry - Get hands-on experience with the
experience. instructor who will guide you at
each step of your learning journey.

9 Mock Tests
10 1:1 Mentorship calls
11 Mock interview calls
- Get access to 250+ questions - Get personalised - Prepare for job interviews
and confidently prep for the guidance through with mock interview calls
certification exam 1:1 mentorship calls. and feedback.

*Disclaimer: AWS and Azure exam prep are part of dedicated tracks with separate pricing. Visit our website for more details.
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The upGrad Advantage

Job Opportunities Career Assistance

upGrad Opportunities Career Mentorship Sessions (1:1)
Job Opportunities Portal: Gain exclusive Get mentored by an experienced industry
access to upGrad's Job Opportunities Portal expert and receive personalized feedback to
which has 100+ openings from upGrad's achieve your desired outcome.
hiring partners at any given time.
High Performance Coaching (1:1)

edge in the application proces. Get a dedicated career coach after the
program to help track your career goals,
Connect with companies that are the
best match for you.
during your career transition journey.

resume and Linkedin structure along with

content on real time basis.

Learning Support
Interview Preparation
Industry Expert Guidance
Get access to Industry Experts and discuss
Interactive Live Sessions with leading any queries before your interview.
industry experts covering curriculum +
advanced topics.

Personalized Industry Session in small

groups (of 10-12) with industry experts to
augment program curriculum with
customized industry based learning.
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Our Subject
Matter Experts

Biswanath Giri Raj Sinha

Dr. Pramath

• Founding Dean of the Indian School of

Biswanath Giri is a Google Cloud
Business (ISB)
Principal Architect with 15 years of
experience in guiding
• Co-founder of Harappabusinesses
Education to
• Foundercloud
successful & Trustee at Ashoka
transitions.
Universityin highly scalable and
Specializes Neeraj Kheria
secure solutions on GCP, with
• FormerinPartner
expertise at McKinseyzero-trust
infrastructure, & Co
security, Google Cloud networking,
and• Terraform
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
automation. from the
Holds
University of Pennsylvania
HashiCorp, Azure, and AWS,
professional with 15+ years of
showcasing a broad understanding
industry experience. Trained
of cloud technologies.
20,000+ professionals, and
counting, on all cloud technologies
including AWS, Azure and GCP,
DevOps.
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Dipesh Garg Panchavarnam

Ramaswamy

Experienced engineer and

Google Cloud Authorized Trainer
technologist specializing in
with 23 years of IT experience. He
DevOps, Infrastructure, Security,
has hands-on experience with
Platforms, and Developer
Solaris, Linux, Aix, Clusters, AWS, Ramaswamy Panchavarnam
Productivity tools. Dipesh is skilled
Google Cloud, and Azure.
in architecting and building
Ramaswamy has designed and
scalable teams, processes, systems,
migrated thousands of workloads
and tools for DevOps
to the Cloud. He has delivered
transformation
public webinars and published
Google Cloud Authorized Trainer
articles in reputed tech magazines.
with 23 years of IT experience. He
has hands-on experience with
Solaris, Linux, Aix, Clusters, AWS,
Google Cloud, and Azure.
Ramaswamy has designed and
migrated thousands of workloads
to the Cloud. He has delivered
public webinars and published
articles in reputed tech magazines.
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Dr. Pramath Raj Sinha

Neelam Pawar

• Founding Dean of the Indian School of

Business (ISB)
Neelam is a Customer Engineering
•Infrastructure
Co-founder of Harappa Education
Modernization Specialist
•at
Founder & Trustee at Ashoka
Google Cloud, with 12 years of
University
experience across MNCs like Ericsson,
Nikita Mahajan
Amdocs, Nokia, VVDN, and Microsoft.
•She
Former Partner
excels at McKinsey
in designing and& Co
implementing highly scalable, resilient
• PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the
architectures with zero-trust security.
University of Pennsylvania
AWS, GCP, and Azure
brings over 12 years of experience as a
technical trainer at IQUAD and an
Assistant Professor at COEP & GHRCE.
She has trained over 1000 learners,
specializing in translating complex
concepts into easily understandable
visual aids for optimal learning
outcomes.
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Dr.
RaviPramath Raj Sinha
Kulkarni

• Founding Dean of the Indian School of

Business (ISB)

•With
Co-founder
over 12of years
HarappaofEducation
experience in
•IT,
Founder & Trustee at Ashoka
Ravi has hands-on expertise in
University
implementing DevOps, CI/CD Siddharth Sharma
automation, on-premises to cloud
•migration,
Former Partner at McKinsey
Build & Release& Co
Management (SCM), Infrastructure
•Management,
PhD in MechanicalandEngineering
AWS Cloud from the
University of Pennsylvania
services. Siddharth Sharma, a seasoned Senior
Consultant and Corporate Trainer,
boasts a decade-long journey marked
by impactful collaborations with
industry leaders. His expertise in
DevOps, cloud technologies (AWS,
Azure, GCP), and programming
languages (Java, Golang) has been
instrumental in driving innovation.
Siddharth is also renowned for his
mentorship, empowering professionals
to excel in the ever-evolving tech
landscape.
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Learning Path

The learner journey includes foundational courses in Python Fundamentals and Cloud
Computing, followed by in-depth modules on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
The curriculum covers key aspects such as databases, networking, security, and
infrastructure management.

Learners then delve into DevOps practices, including Docker, CI/CD with Jenkins, and
infrastructure automation with Terraform and Ansible. They also explore container
orchestration with Kubernetes and learn about monitoring and logging in Kubernetes.
The journey continues with advanced topics in DevOps, including DevSecOps and
SynOps, as well as AI tools for Cloud and DevOps. The program culminates with capstone
projects to apply the acquired skills in real-world scenarios.

Preparotary Foundations
Mastering
Content (Python of Cloud
AWS
Fundamentals) Computing

DevOps
Essentials

Mastering
DevOps on DevOps
Microsoft
Azure on AWS
Azure

Mastering DevOps on
Capstone
Google Cloud Google Cloud
Project
Platform Platform
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Platform & Services

Amazon AWS EC2 Amazon S3

Amazon DynamoDB AWS Lambda AWS EBS

AWS VPC AWS RDS

Azure CDN Google Compute Engine Google Cloud Load Balancing

Jenkins Kubernetes Terraform

Docker Ansible
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Program Syllabus

Course Module Session Description

Week 0
Prep Content Python Python Refresher/Fundamentals for Cloud and
Fundamentals DevOps

Fundamentals of - Overview of cloud computing concepts

Cloud Computing - Types of cloud services: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing
- Types of cloud services: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and basic
cloud security
- Public, private, and hybrid cloud
- Community cloud

AWS - Overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Fundamentals - Setting up an AWS account

AWS - EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) for virtual servers

Databases - S3 (Simple Storage Service) for object storage
- EBS (Elastic Block Store) for block storage
- RDS (Relational Database Services)

AWS Networking - VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) for networking

and Security
Mastering AWS

- Security Groups and Network ACLs

and DevOps

- Auto Scaling and Load balancing

16 Weeks
DevOps Basics - Understanding DevOps principles and practices
and Introduction - Version Control Systems (e.g., Git)
to Docker - Introduction to Docker and containerization
- Docker architecture and components
- Implementing Docker, Docker for networking and storage
- Docker Compose for multi-container applications

CI/CD and - Continuous Integration (CI) concepts and practices

Jenkins - Introduction to Jenkins and its features
- Setting up Jenkins pipelines for CI/CD
- Integrating Jenkins with version control systems (e.g., Git)
- Jenkins plugins for enhancing CI/CD pipelines
- Hands-on setup of CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodeBuild

Infrastructure as - Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform

Code (IaC) and
Terraform - Provisioning and managing infrastructure resources
with Terraform
- Terraform state management and workspaces
- Best practices for using Terraform in production environments

and automation
and Ansible - Ansible architecture and components (Control Node,

- Ansible Tower for centralized management and orchestration

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Program Syllabus continued...

Course Module Session Description

Container - Introduction to Kubernetes and container orchestration

Orchestration
using Kuberentes Worker Node, Pods, Services)
- Deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters

- Kubernetes networking and storage options

- Advanced Kubernetes concepts

Logging in (Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets)
Kubernetes - Kubernetes scaling and auto-scaling
- Kubernetes security best practices

- Kubernetes cluster administration and maintenance

CI/CD on AWS - Container orchestration with Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service)
- Docker Swarm on AWS

Infrastructure as - Automating infrastructure deployment with AWS CloudFormation

Code (IaC) on
- CloudWatch

AWS Assignment Submission

Course Project

Buffer Week
Introduction to
Azure - Setting up an Azure account

Azure SQL Database)

Azure Compute
Services, Azure - Azure App Service
Network and - Azure Functions
Security - Azure Virtual Network
Microsoft Azure

- Azure Security Center

6 Weeks
Mastering

- Azure Active Directory

CI/CD on Azure - Implementing CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps

- Integrating Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines
- Container orchestration with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Infrastructure as
Code (IaC) on
Azure

Course Project Assignment Submission

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Program Syllabus continued...

Course Module Session Description

Introduction to - Overview of Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Google Cloud - Setting up a GCP account
Platform - Overview of GCP services (Compute Engine, Cloud Storage,
Cloud SQL)

Google Cloud
Platform - Google Compute Engine for virtual machines
Compute - Google Cloud Storage for object storage
Mastering Google

Services, Google - Google Cloud SQL for managed databases

Cloud Platform

Cloud Platform - Google Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

5 Weeks
Network and
Security - Google Cloud Security Scanner

CI/CD on Google - Setting up CI/CD pipelines with Google Cloud Build

Cloud Platform - Integrating with Google Cloud Source Repositories
- Container orchestration with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Infrastructure as
Code (IaC) on
Google Cloud
Platform

Course Project Assignment Submission

DevSecOps - Introduction to DevSecOps principles and practices

- Integrating security into the DevOps pipeline
- Security automation and tooling
Advanced DevOps

- Code analysis and vulnerability scanning

- Container security best practices
- Secrets management and encryption
- Compliance as code 2 Weeks

Advanced - Implement the DevOps pipeline for an advanced use case

DevOps and - Introduction to SynOps methodology and principles
SynOps - Implementing SynOps for optimizing operational processes
- Case studies and real-world examples of SynOps implementations
- Challenges and considerations in adopting SynOps approach

AI Tools for Cloud - Understand how GenAI is impacting Cloud and Cloud-based
DevOps Engineer
Become a 10x

and DevOps services and functions

Cloud and

- Understand how GenAI is impacting DevOps using tools like

2 Weeks

- Case studies and real-world examples of AI in DevOps

implementations
- Implement a small practice project on DevOps

Capstone Project: 2 Weeks

Total 33 Weeks
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Sample Industry Courses

Project 1 Project 2

Kubernetes-Based Scalable Continuous

Microservices Platform on Deployment for High-Traffic
AWS EKS E-commerce on Azure

A cloud solutions provider is developing a ShopEase, an e-commerce platform, is

proof-of-concept (POC) for a scalable, preparing for a high-traffic shopping season.
resilient microservices architecture using It needs to ensure seamless scalability, zero
Kubernetes on AWS EKS. It will showcase the downtime during updates, and automatic
deployment of stateless and stateful scaling based on demand. A robust
workloads, robust monitoring, auto-scaling, deployment strategy with continuous delivery
and serve as a reference for clients adopting and deployment is essential to maintain
cloud-native technologies. service stability and user experience.

Skills and Services Learned: Skills and Services Learned:

• VPC • Web Apps
• EKS • DevOps
• Nodes • Azure Monitor
• Stateless & Stateful workload

Project 3 Project 4

Enhancing the Scalability and Multi-Cloud Disaster Recovery

Performance of BookMyShow and Business Continuity
for High-Traffic Events Solution for Financial Services

The project aims to analyze and resolve GlobalBank, a multinational financial

performance bottlenecks in BookMyShow's institution, aims to implement a disaster
ticketing platform, which crashed during the recovery and business continuity solution
Coldplay India concert ticket release. The across AWS and Microsoft Azure. The
goal is to enhance scalability and reliability, project focuses on building a resilient,
ensuring a seamless user experience under geo-redundant infrastructure to ensure
high-traffic conditions during major events. uninterrupted service delivery and data
integrity during regional outages or
disasters.

Skills and Services Learned:

• Cloud Run
• SQL Database
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Program Details &
Admission Process

Program Duration Format

8 months 100% Live

Eligibility
1) Bachelor’s degree with 50%
2) Prior coding knowledge will be highly beneficial

Admission Process

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