CNE 410 - IT Project Design

5 Credits
This course is a presentation-focused experience where students will apply their project management and networking knowledge to real-world business cases. Students will learn how to combine components to solve common system design interview questions. Students will research and present findings related to enterprise projects in computer networking design.

Course Outcomes

Define the following components: Client, DNS, CDN, Load Balancer, Web Server, Worker Service, Queue, Write API, Read API, Search API, Fan Out Service, User Graph Service, Memory Cache, Database, Sharding, Object store.
Combine the components into robust, reliable, and appropriately-priced systems.
Use cloud budget estimators to determine monthly and annual costs for designs.
Effectively talk through whiteboard problems.
Pass system design interviews at major companies.