2024-2025 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
Badge in Distributed Computing
The College of Computing's distributed computing badge (not a degree or certificate) is designed to prepare students to accomplish the following:
- Describe how TCP/IP enable the Internet to function.
- Set up network firewalls.
- Evaluate different virtualization architectures.
- Understand issues posed by distributed systems such as clock synchronization, naming, and consistency.
- Write a Web-based application.
Admission
Completion of a bachelor's degree and evidence of object-oriented programming skill are required for admission.
Requirements
The distributed computing badge is comprised of three courses (nine credits)
- CIS 654 - Computer Networking (3 credits)
- CIS 656 - Distributed Systems (3 credits)
- CIS 658 - Web Architectures (3 credits)
Program Location
Classes are offered in-person in the late afternoon or evening in downtown Grand Rapids.