The choice for courses during this quarantine is large; precisely why we started the Free Resources for the Free Mind series last year. This is your 8th Free Resources post list (from Jonas):
Global Procurement and Sourcing Specialization through Coursera from Rutgers University, N.Y.
From the Curriculum: “Strategic Sourcing, then move on to the very important topic of Supplier Management. In Supplier Management, you will learn how to select and evaluate suppliers, implement appropriate contracts, and how to mitigate risks. In Supply Market Analysis, you will learn and understand various tools and techniques to evaluate supply markets. Lastly, the course will cover the very important topic of negotiation. Outside reading will be provided to reinforce your knowledge. In addition, case studies will be used to bring these learning to life, and assessment will be used to test your overall knowledge.”
Security in Google Cloud Platform Specialization from Google Cloud Training
“Launch your career in Cloud Security. This self-paced Specialization gives a broad study of security controls, best practices, and techniques on Google Cloud. Through recorded lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy the components of a secure Google Cloud solution, including Cloud Identity, the GCP Resource Manager, Cloud IAM, Google Virtual Private Cloud firewalls, Google Cloud Load balancing, Cloud CDN, Cloud Storage access control technologies, Security Command Center, Stackdriver, Security Keys, Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys, the Google Data Loss Prevention API, and Cloud Armor. Participants learn mitigations for attacks at many points in a Google Cloud-based infrastructure, including Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, phishing attacks, and threats involving content classification and use.”
Introduction to Cloud Computing offered by IBM
4 months to complete, 2 hours per week effort
Skills developed: Hybrid MulticludCloud NativeDevops, Iaas,PaaS, Saas Cloud Computing
Python for Everybody Specialization by University of Michigan
Aprox. 8 months to complete, 2 hrs./week
Course description: “This Specialization builds on the success of the Python for Everybody course and will introduce fundamental programming concepts including data structures, networked application program interfaces, and databases, using the Python programming language. In the Capstone Project, you’ll use the technologies learned throughout the Specialization to design and create your own applications for data retrieval, processing, and visualization.”
All this courses started May 31, 2020.
Good luck,
Max Cantor