We had a couple of lectures where I talked about system architecture. I shows how VMWare worked and how to deploy a server in the cloud (namely Azure).

Identify the major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, Rackspace, etc.)

Describe the steps to provision a virtual machine (CPU, memory, disk, network)

List and describe the benefits of virtualizing hosts.

In one of the lectures, I ran thru an example where I costed out a Windows Server and SQL Server instance. Explain the factors that contribute to cost, and compare the costs of cloud hosting vs. on-premises hosting.

Explain the key architecture goals - fault tolerance, scalability, redundancy, business continuity.