Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Cloud Product Management with Google’s Advancing Women in Technology

Is Product Management Technology (PMT) right for you? Learn cloud technologies and business with Nancy Wang, one of the youngest executives at AWS, and 5 other cloud computing leaders. Use this knowledge to enter the high-growth cloud industry, and test yourself by solving 200+ practice questions and preparing for the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification. Earn up to 6 college credits upon completion of the course.

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Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Communication skills
  • Troubleshooting
  • Critical thinking
  • Teamwork
  • Time management
  • project management
  • Technological skills
  • Self-learning
  • Dealing with changes
  • Receiving feedback

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Cloud Product Manager
  • Cloud Project Manager
  • Technology Manager
  • Technical Program Manager
  • Cloud Services Analyst
  • Cloud Resource Management Specialist
  • Cloud Information Security Manager
  • Cloud Technology Consultant
  • Cloud Services Financial Performance Analyst
  • Enterprise-scale project manager

Internship – Series of 3 courses

Learn cloud product management with the same curriculum that AWS project managers learn! Gain insights that will impress you for your first (or next) cloud computing job, and prepare yourself to successfully pass the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.

Principal Lecturer

Keynote speaker, Nisi Wang, Director and CEO of Data Protection Services at Amazon Web Services, and founder of Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT), will equip you with the skills that resource managers at the world’s top cloud providers are looking for. These skills will be useful to you throughout your career.

Insights from cloud leaders

  • May-Len Thomsen Bukovac, Vice President, AWS Object and Block Storage
  • Erin Young, CTO, Workday Ventures
  • Boyd Bischoff, Director, AWS Software Development
  • Dan Shine, the first investor in Zoom
  • and Todd Weatherby, Vice President, AWS Professional Services

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Preparation

Ready for an interview or to show off your cloud knowledge? This specialization prepares you to pass the industry-recognized AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. Instructor Gordon Yu, a technical program manager at AWS and a legal advisor and Coursera manager at AWIT, has helped many Amazon employees pass the exam. He shares his knowledge and strategies in this preparation.

ACE® Certification

This specialization is ACE® accredited – upon completion of the courses, you can receive up to 6 academic credits.

Practical learning project

Learners will test their theoretical knowledge of technical and business considerations in the cloud with over 200 questions. In particular, diligent learners will demonstrate proficiency in:

  • Cloud speed, its impact on organizational psychology, and how to deliver and lead at scale
  • Cloud product management
  • Analysis, determination and pricing for cloud services
  • Writing for the public or clients
  • Interpreting technical architecture diagrams
  • Analyzing the financial performance of cloud services as a service provider and as a customer
  • When to use the right services like storage, compute, databases, analytics, blockchain, and machine learning
  • How to manage enterprise-scale cloud projects using management, governance, and security tools
  • How to review enterprise-scale cloud projects to ensure compliance with the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Optional field

In the optional area, learners can complete 10 official 10-minute AWS tutorials.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Real-world cloud project manager

1 of 3: Cloud Business and Technology

  • Course 1 • 5 hours • 4.5 (53 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Explain why the cloud is the biggest “gold mine” since the invention of the client-server model, and how it can accelerate your career.
  • Explain the “speed of the cloud” by comparing cloud and non-cloud businesses, technical architecture diagrams, and financial and operational impact.
  • Understand the purpose of the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, determine if it’s right for you, and let AWIT help you prepare.
  • Learn about today’s most popular technologies, including containerization, serverless, data management with artificial intelligence and machine learning, and blockchain, and how to run these businesses.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Technology Strategy
  • Category: Business
  • Category: Product Management
  • Category: Cloud Computing
  • Category: Amazon Services (Amazon AWS)

2 of 3: Management, Innovation, Pricing

  • Course 2 • 5 hours • 5.0 (23 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Explain common approaches to compute, containers, serverless services, application integration, and distributed systems.
  • Distinguish between different types of databases and analysis tools.
  • Understand the concepts of cloud management, governance, machine learning, and quantum computing.
  • Explain how to manage cloud costs (as a customer) and set pricing (as a product manager).
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: aws
  • Category: Technology Strategy
  • Category: Product Management
  • Category: Cloud Computing
  • Category: Business Strategy

3 of 3: Security, AWS Well-Architected Framework

  • Course 3 • 9 hours • 4.8 (23 ratings)

Course Details

What you’ll learn
  • Understand cloud security, the shared responsibility model, and the Well-Architected Framework.
  • Explain how networking methods deliver information and content to customers around the world on a large scale.
  • Complete your preparation for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: aws
  • Category: Technology Strategy
  • Category: Business
  • Category: Product Management
  • Category: Cloud Computing