Course Grades

Your course grade will be determined by how many points you earn according to the following percentages.

Assigment Points
Assignments 85 
Quizzes  60 
Midterm (Proctored Assessment*) 60 
Final (Proctored Assessment*) 75 
Participation   30 
Total  310 

*60% combined average required to pass the course

Grading Scale

NOVA Online proctored or major assessments are required to maintain compliance with our accreditation standards and the Higher Education Act’s identity verification requirements for online courses. College-wide, proctored or major assessments must prove identity. To accomplish this in online courses, students must show overall passing levels on the proctored or major assessments in order to pass the course.

In this online course, if your average score on all proctored or major assessments is a passing percentage of 60 percent or higher, then your grade will be calculated according to the scale in the table below. Otherwise, a final grade of F will be assigned.

Your final grade will be based on the following scale.

Grade Points Average
A 279-310  90%-100%
B 248-279  80%-89%
C 217-247  70%-79%
D 186-216  60%-69%
F 0-185  0-59%

Estimated Study Time Per Topic

Topics Hours Percentage
Building virtual servers and containers. Windows Servers and Linux servers 9 20%
Highly available system for business continuity support 9 20%
Designing Cost optimized cloud computing environment 3 7%
Developing cloud solutions using serverless technologies 9 20%
Building a 2- to 3-Tiered cloud architectures using automation with Infrastructure as Code 3 10%
Best practice in cloud computing network design, and secure data and system access (AAA) 9 20%
Proctored assessments, quizzes, and assignments to demonstrate knowledge 6 13%
Total 45 100%

Grading Details

AWS Labs and Projects Submission Instruction

  1. Using a word processor, such as Microsoft Word or Open Office, copy and paste the screen capture(s) to the document.
  2. At the top of each screen capture, put a title of the capture.  Do NOT put the title at the bottom of the screen capture.
  3. Your final document should contain multiple screen captures.
  4. Make sure your captures include the following: time, day, month, year, AWS username stamp in the lower and upper right corner of your screen capture.

Extra Credit

Extra credit might be assigned in certain circumstances if the class needs to improve the overall grade.