IBM Bluemix Application Development & Certification

Course details

• Interested in taking your IT career to the next level?
• Want to use cloud technology & micro services for your next application?
• Curious to learn how to develop cloud applications?
• Planning to take the IBM Cloud Developer Certification?

If answer to any of these questions is a YES, read on:

Adoption of cloud technologies is growing at a very rapid pace. IT professionals cannot ignore this trend and MUST learn how to develop cloud native applications using the best practices (12 factor apps) & cloud design patterns. Bluemix cloud platform is built on open source technologies such as Cloud Foundry, Openstack, Docker containers. As a result by learning Bluemix Cloud platform IT professionals will gain knowledge of cloud technologies that they can apply to a number of other cloud platforms that support these open source standards/technologies.

This course teaches the students everything they need to know about developing, hosting and managing cloud applications on the IBM Bluemix PaaS platform. Student will be able create a live Bluemix application in Java/NodeJS within hours of starting this course. Building PaaS/Docker based applications will provide the student the foundational knowledge for implementing micro services based applications.

Course is organized with the IBM Cloud Application Developer Certification (C5050-285) in mind but goes into the details so that the students can apply the knowledge to their cloud applications. There are over 50 lectures; every lecture has a set of questions in the form of a quiz. The quiz questions have a format similar to the actual test questions. There are 36 Quiz with over 300 questions to get you ready for the exam. Just taking the course and clearing the quizzes will prepare the student to sit for the certification test and clear the exam. 95% of the course is in the form of videos that shows you how to use Bluemix Console, Services dashboards, Cloud Foundry tools, Docker tools, Eclipse IDE, Eclipse tools.

Typical duration for the completion of this course is roughly 3 weeks with at least 2 hours/day spent on the course material and trying out the features on your own.