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DCST1005

Infrastructure: secure core services

Assessments and mandatory activities may be changed until September 20th.

Credits 7.5
Level Intermediate course, level II
Course start Spring 2026
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction Norwegian
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement School exam

About

About the course

Course content

  • Private and public cloud solutions
  • Security challenges that are specific to cloud solutions
  • Tools for managing cloud solutions
  • Installation and availability
  • Infrastructure migration
  • Surveillance
  • Centralized logging
  • Catalog services
  • Identity management, authentication and authorization
  • Basic performance analysis

Learning outcome

Knowledge

  • K1: The candidate has a basic understanding of the technology in private and public cloud solutions, including migration of infrastructures across platforms
  • K2: The candidate has broad knowledge of various methods and tools for monitoring infrastructures
  • K3: The candidate has broad knowledge of security challenges in cloud solutions

Skills

  • S1: The candidate can use the most used tools for managing cloud solutions
  • S2: The candidate can perform basic setup for automated installation and provisioning (provisioning)
  • S3: The candidate can perform centralized logging and monitoring with associated incident management processes
  • S4: The candidate can plan and perform basic setup of directory services and centralized solutions for identity management, authentication and authorization
  • S5: The candidate can perform basic configuration management and software updates in cloud-based infrastructures
  • S6: The candidate can perform simple performance appraisals

General competence

  • G1: The candidate is aware of the advantages and disadvantages of using cloud-based infrastructures in different organizations
  • G2: The candidate can convey operational terminology, both orally and in writing
  • G3: The candidate knows how the risk picture of organizations can be affected by the choice of different IT solutions

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, problem solving individually and in groups, lab exercises.

Compulsory assignments

  • Assignments

Further on evaluation

Mandatory assignments must be approved in order to take the exam.

Re-sit for the written exam is in August. Written exam might be changed to oral exam for the re-sit exam.

Exam can be answered in English or Norwegian (Bokmål/Nynorsk).

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
Digital Infrastructure and Cyber Security (BDIGSEC)

Required previous knowledge

Admission to the study program Bachelor of Science in Digital Infrastructure and Cyber Security is required.

Course materials

Information will be posted in LMS when the semester starts

  • Videos
  • Written lessons
  • Excerpts from articles and books

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
IDRI2001 5 sp Autumn 2019
DCSG1005 7.5 sp Autumn 2019
This course has academic overlap with the courses in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Information Security

Contact information

Course coordinator

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Computer Science

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: School exam
Grade: Letter grades

Ordinary examination - Spring 2026

School exam
Weighting 100/100 Examination aids Code E Duration 3 hours Exam system Inspera Assessment Place and room Not specified yet.

Re-sit examination - Summer 2026

School exam
Weighting 100/100 Examination aids Code E Duration 3 hours Exam system Inspera Assessment Place and room Not specified yet.