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DCST2003

Robust and Scalable 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

  • Service architectures
  • Automation with platform-independent languages
  • Databases and applications
  • Accessibility: theory and practice
  • Upgrading and maintenance of high-availability infrastructures
  • Data storage and distributed databases
  • Statistics applications in system administration
  • Backup and restore active data
  • Performance measurements and analysis
  • Monitoring and capacity calculation in dynamic infrastructures

Learning outcome

  • Knowledge:
  • K1: The candidate has good knowledge of different service architectures and their application.
  • K2: The candidate has a good knowledge related to the performance and scalability of architectures.
  • K3: The candidate has good knowledge of how to achieve high availability and security.
  • Skills:
  • F1: The candidate can set up and maintain databases and web-based applications.
  • F2: The candidate can set up and maintain high availability mechanisms (load balancing and database replication).
  • F3: The candidate can perform performance tests of storage, databases and web servers and apply statistical analyzes to the data.
  • F4: The candidate can perform caching in different parts of a service architecture to achieve higher performance.
  • F5: The candidate can design and implement a backup system in a dynamic infrastructure as well as carry out recovery.
  • General competence:
  • G1: The candidate has good knowledge of various approaches and the culture in the field of system administration.
  • G2: The candidate has good insight into troubleshooting various infrastructure environments.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, problem solving individually and in groups, lab exercises, online-supported learning.

Compulsory assignments

  • Exercises

Further on evaluation

Mandatory course work: All exercises must be accepted to sit the exam.

Resit exam is in August. In the case of a written resit exam, the form can be changed to oral.

Specific conditions

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

Course materials

Thomas A. Limoncelli ,Strata R. Chalup,Christina J. Hogan. "The Practice of Cloud System Administration", Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (September 13, 2014).

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
DCSG2003 7.5 sp Autumn 2022
This course has academic overlap with the course 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

  • Computer Science

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

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.