Objective
You are to design and build a secure, responsive, reliable, scalable, and resilient distributed
system to support the online learning operations of a large university.
Background
The Global University (TGU) is one of the world’s largest online learning universities with
more than 250,000 students undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate studies
worldwide. At TGU, all education services, courses, programs and units of study are
internally authored and delivered online both synchronously and asynchronously using
TGU’s proprietary network infrastructure. TGU’s headquarters is in France, where it houses
around 2,000 academics and about 4,000 administrative, operational and student support
staff. In France, TGU also has a world class learning and teaching research centre (LTRC)
with about 1,000 research staff. Since its inception, TGU has structured its academic
operations into faculties; but just recently, TGU decided to consolidate its operations into
seven schools, namely, 1. Arts and Social Sciences, 2. Business and Economics, 3.
Education and Language Studies, 3. Engineering and Maths, 4. Health Sciences, 5.
Learning Technologies and 6. Science.