Students and working people of technology who seeks to enhance their skill and knowledge with the future-technologies, here is a good opportunity to do that, for free of cost.
IIT Madras and IIT Kharagpur announces free 4-week and 12-week online course on Quantum computing & Cloud computing respectively. Via Ministry of Education & AICTE’s join collaboration called ‘Swayam’, the IITs offers the course to students.
Despite these two, Swayam offers numerous technical topics for free for students.
Let’s take a skim of the details of the courses.
IIT Madras – Quantum Computing Course
IIT Madras collaborates with IBM Research & Systems, for this quantum computing lessons.
What’s the course topic? – ‘Introduction to Quantum Computing: Quantum Algorithms & Qiskit’
Duration of the course: 4 Weeks
What you will learn in this course?
Week 1: Introduction and IBM Quantum Perspective, Q Mission in India – Invited talk, Quantum Computing Applications, Quantum Computing Basics
Week 2: IBM Quantum Composer and Quantum Lab using Qiskit
Week 3: Quantum Algorithms-I (Oracles, Deustch Jozsa), Quantum Algorithms-II (Grover’s Algorithm with Hands-on)
Week 4: Quantum Error Correction, NISQ era Quantum Algorithms (VQE/QAOA and industrial applications)
Who can apply for this course?
Anyone. However, Undergraduate, Postgraduate students, researchers and even faculties from course-related departments are preferred.
When does the course start?
The course starts by 25th July 2022 & ends at 19th August 2022. Enrollment for the course ends by 1 August 2022.
You can apply for the course, here!
IIT Kharagpur – Cloud Computing
Topic of the course: Cloud Computing
Duration of the course: 12 Weeks
What you will learn in this course?
Week 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing
Week 2: Cloud Computing Architecture
Week 3: Service Management in Cloud Computing
Week 4: Data Management in Cloud Computing
Week 5: Resource Management in Cloud
Week 6: Cloud Security
Week 7: Open Source and Commercial Clouds, Cloud Simulator
Week 8: Research trend in Cloud Computing, Fog Computing
Week 9: VM Resource Allocation, Management and Monitoring
Week 10: Cloud-Fog-Edge enabled Analytics
Week 11: Serverless Computing and FaaS Model
Week 12: Case Studies and Recent Advancements
Who can apply for this course?
Anyone. Albeit, this course is specially computed for computer science, electronics and communications and electricals and electronics engineering department students.
When does the course start?
The course starts by 25th July 2022 & ends at 14th October 2022. Enrollment for the course ends by 1 August 2022.
Apply for the Cloud Computing course here!
Is Certification available for these Courses?
Yes. Upon taking the exam (which is optional & conducted offline), and finishing the course with these criteria (mentioned below) earns you a e-certificate. The exam usually comes with a fee of Rs.1000.
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Criteria to get the Certificate
Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 3 assignments out of the total 4 assignments given in Quantum Computing course.
25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in Cloud Computing course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100.
Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score
Students will be provided with the e-certificate only if he/she scores >=10/25 in assignment and his/her exam score is atleast 30. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, certification won’t be available even if the Final score is above 40 out of 100.
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Following your exams & falling into this category of being eligible for certificate, one can download the certificate in the official website of NPTEL.
