Course Curriculum

For Architects:8 Months | 9 Modules

• Module I - Blockchain Fundamentals
  • Introduction to Blockchain
  • Program Overview & Structure
  • Gartner's Hype Curve and Evolution of Blockchain Technology
  • Blockchain Need & Genesis
  • Key Characteristics of Blockchain
  • P2P System
  • Cryptography, Hashing and Transactions
  • Digital Signatures
  • Blockchain Structure
  • Mining and Consensus
  • How Blockchain Works
  • Centralization and Decentralization
  • Byzantine General Problems
  • How is Blockchain Different
  • Smart Contracts
  • Story of mysterious Satoshi
  • Bitcoin Whitepaper
  • Understanding Bitcoin
  • Components of a Block
  • How they are joined together through Blockchain
  • Forks: soft & hard forks, Ummer blocks
  • Different forks from Bitcoin
  • Wallets, Transactions, Public & Private keys
  • Merkle tree, Mining, PoW, Nonce difficulty level
  • Double spending attack: Physical & digital world with history
  • How bitcoin can fix this, history of attacks on Bitcoin and crypto
• Module II - Web Technologies & Programming Fundamentals
  • Introduction to programming
  • Types of Programming & Software Development
  • Operating Systems - Ubuntu & RHEL
  • DBMS- Database Management System
  • Types of Database
  • Networking
  • Cloud Computing
  • Basic Web - HTML5 / CSS3 / Bootstrap
  • Introduction to JavaScript
  • Code 2 (Arithmetic Operations), Inbuilt methods
  • Array, data types, operators
  • Logic and control structures
  • Objects and functions
  • Important concepts in functions
  • Object Oriented JS, Bugs and Error handling, ES6, Compiler
  • Introduction to Node.js & environment setup
  • Node.js Fundamentals
  • Node Module System & NPM
  • Create Server, API using Node JS & Express JS
  • MongoDB & MYSQL database
  • Asynchronous NodeJS - Async/Await
  • WebSockets & HTTP Server
• Module III - Technicalities & Implementation of Blockchain
  • Understanding Blockchain - Public, Private & Hybrid Blockchain
  • Blockchain Implementation & Use cases
  • Finance & Banking Industry Introduction
  • Case Study: Remittance with crypto-currencies
  • Case Study: Ripple
  • Supply Chain & Logistics Introduction
  • Case Study: Tracking & Authenticity
  • Case Study: Everledger
  • Health Care & Medicals Introduction
  • Case Study: Electronic Health Record System
  • Case Study: Biomedicines Research
  • Governance & Public Services Introduction
  • Case Study: Voting on Blockchain
  • Case Study: Public Benefit Distribution System
  • Case Study: Document Management & Storage
• Module IV - Introduction to Ethereum
  • The need of Ethereum
  • Participation of users in Ethereum
  • Ethereum Foundation
  • Ethereum Whitepaper
  • How Ethereum Works
  • Ethereum network
  • Accounts & its creation
  • Ethereum Virtual Machine
  • Transactions and Types
  • Gas - Transactional Fee & Incentivisations
  • Blockchain Structure & Formation
  • Mining & Consensus
  • Smart Contracts
  • Consensus - PoW
  • New Proposal - PoS Casper
  • Introduction to DAO
  • Introduction to DApp
• Module V - Building Ethereum Applications (Optional)
  • DApp & its components
  • Client app
  • Smart contract
  • Web3js
  • Use Metamask to do transaction
  • Use the account keys directly to the application
  • Programming languages
  • Types of Architecture design
  • Client, Web3js, Network, Account/wallet.
  • Client, Middleware, Web3js, Network, Account/wallet
  • Programming in Solidity & Introduction
  • What is solidity
  • Solidity basics
  • Solidity Data Types
  • Functions and modifiers
  • Inheritance
  • Libraries
  • Solidity Events
  • ERC20, ERC223, ERC771 Tokens
  • Auditing security and testing
  • Using Remix, Testnet, Metamask
  • Test RPC
  • DApp Development Tools
• Module VI - Alternate Public, Federated and Private Blockchain and comparisons
  • Limitation of Public Blockchains
    1. Limited scalability
    2. Limited privacy
    3. Storage constrains
    4. Non scalable consensus
    5. Lack of tools
    6. Lack of query capability
  • Enterprise expectations on Blockchain
    1. Highly scalable
    2. Granular level permission
    3. Using existing storage
    4. Rich query interface
    5. Integration with legacy systems
    6. Interoperability between Blockchain platforms
    7. Private transactions
  • What is private and Consortium Blockchain
  • Benefits of private Blockchain
    1. Network governence
    2. Transactions is cheap
    3. Validators are know
    4. Transaction approval is fast
    5. Read permission is restricted
  • What are the popular platforms avaiable for private/consortium Blockchain
    1. Quorum - JP Morgan
    2. R3 Corda
    3. Hyperledger
  • Why Quorum and what it has ?
    1. Privacy - Private smart contracts nad transactions
    2. Pluggable consensus - Raft, IBFT
    3. Peer permissioning- Only know identities can join the system by
    4. smart contracts
    5. Performance
  • Quorum Architecture Componets
    1. Quorum Node
    2. Transaction manager
    3. Constellation
  • Quorum Transaction Processing and Privacy
  • Quorum consensus
    1. Raft
    2. IBFT
    3. Quorumchain consensus - Deprecated
  • Explanation of Raft
  • Security and network permissioning
    1. Enodes and permissions
  • Quorum setup
    1. Prerequisites - Docker, Vagrant, Git
    2. Use sample projects
    3. Build from source
    4. Keys for Nodes - Private Key Storage Algorithm
  • Develop using quorum
  • Running quorum nodes (Maker, Observer, Voter)
  • Developing smart contract
  • Running permissioning
    1. Add nodes
    2. Remove nodes
  • Quorum API
  • Running the sample apps
  • Use cases and samples
    1. Financial transactions
    2. Contract Bidding
  • Why corda
  • Corda Key concepts
    1. Ledger
    2. Identity - Organisations
    3. States
    4. Contracts
    5. Transactions
    6. Flows
    7. Consensus
    8. Notaries
    9. Oracles
    10. Time windows
    11. Nodes
• Module VII - Enterprise Blockchain Applications & Hyperledger (Optional)
  • Hyperledger Composer
  • Introduction To Blockchain & Enterprise Blockchain
  • Hyperledger Composer
  • What is Composer?
  • What are the components involved
  • How to create you first network
  • What is Composer Playground
  • What is model?
  • What is Query File
  • How to write transaction processing functions
  • How to create participants & assets
  • How to submit transactions with playground
  • Adding Identities
  • What is ACL
  • Export Composer From Playground
  • Start your fabric sample network
  • Install composer chainode
  • Deploy and Start the composer chaincode
  • Create Participants
  • Create Identities for participants
  • Generate Card files for the participant identities
  • Submit transactions for composer client
  • Composer Rest API server
  • Hyperledger Fabric
  • Getting Started With Hyperledger Fabric Network
  • Understanding the components
  • Explanation of Configuration Files
  • Crypto Configuration
  • Configtx
  • Defining the network topology
  • Docker Compose file with all the components explained
  • Orderer
  • Peer
  • CouchDB
  • Fabric CA
  • Scripts and commands to start the network
  • Developing our own chaincode in fabric go sdk
  • Installing it in the fabric network
  • With Scripts and commands
  • Invoking and querying transactions from command line
  • Creating a node application for fabric chaincode
  • Registering and enrolling users
  • Invoking transactions
  • Query Data from ledger
  • Creating a REST Api for Fabric Client
• Module VIII - Architecting Blockchain Solutions
  • When to use Blockchain Technology
  • Benefits of implementing Blockchain over legacy solution
  • Understanding Blockchain Limitations
  • Blockchain Frameworks analysis to choose from
  • Ethereum
  • Hyperledger Fabric
  • R3 Corda
  • Sawtooth
  • Quorum
  • MultiChain
  • Building Technical & Functional aspects of Blockchain Voting App
  • Defining Requirements and Functional Components
  • Creating User Story and Technical Requirements
  • Defining Tech Stack Architecture
  • Defining which framework to be used
  • Understand Smart Contract Code & Implementation
  • Understand Client Side Implementation
  • Writing the test scripts
  • Deploying Distributed Applications
  • Building Technical & Functional aspects of Distributed Ride Sharing App
  • Defining Requirements and Functional Components
  • Creating User Story and Technical Requirements
  • Defining Tech Stack Architecture
  • Defining which framework to be used
  • Understand Smart Contract Code & Implementation
  • Understand Client Side Implementation
  • Writing the test scripts
  • Deploying Distributed Applications
• Module IX - New Generation Technology & Shift of Blockchain
  • Top Global companies and their work in Blockchain technology
  • New developments in Blockchain technologies & looking forward
  • Case Study: EOS
  • White paper analysis
  • Building application on EOS
  • Case Study: Auxledger
  • White paper analysis
  • Interoperability and Customizability with Auxledger
  • Integration of Blockchain with other technologies: IoT, AIML and BigData
  • Process excellence & Mistake proofing requirements
  • Case Study: IOTA
  • Case Study: BigChainDB

For Developers:8 Months | 7 Modules

• Module I - Blockchain Fundamentals
  • Introduction to Blockchain
  • Program Overview & Structure
  • Gartner's Hype Curve and Evolution of Blockchain Technology
  • Blockchain Need & Genesis
  • Key Characteristics of Blockchain
  • P2P System
  • Cryptography, Hashing and Transactions
  • Digital Signatures
  • Blockchain Structure
  • Mining and Consensus
  • How Blockchain Works
  • Centralization and Decentralization
  • Byzantine General Problems
  • How is Blockchain Different
  • Smart Contracts
  • Story of mysterious Satoshi
  • Bitcoin Whitepaper
  • Understanding Bitcoin
  • Components of a Block
  • How they are joined together through Blockchain
  • Forks: soft & hard forks, Ummer blocks
  • Different forks from Bitcoin
  • Wallets, Transactions, Public & Private keys
  • Merkle tree, Mining, PoW, Nonce difficulty level
  • Double spending attack: Physical & digital world with history
  • How bitcoin can fix this, history of attacks on Bitcoin and crypto
• Module II - Web Technologies & Programming Fundamentals
  • Introduction to programming
  • Types of Programming & Software Development
  • Operating Systems - Ubuntu & RHEL
  • DBMS- Database Management System
  • Types of Database
  • Networking
  • Cloud Computing
  • Basic Web - HTML5 / CSS3 / Bootstrap
  • Introduction to JavaScript
  • Code 2 (Arithmetic Operations), Inbuilt methods
  • Array, data types, operators
  • Logic and control structures
  • Objects and functions
  • Important concepts in functions
  • Object Oriented JS, Bugs and Error handling, ES6, Compiler
  • Introduction to Node.js & environment setup
  • Node.js Fundamentals
  • Node Module System & NPM
  • Create Server, API using Node JS & Express JS
  • MongoDB & MYSQL database
  • Asynchronous NodeJS - Async/Await
  • WebSockets & HTTP Server
• Module III - Introduction to Ethereum
  • The need of Ethereum
  • Participation of users in Ethereum
  • Ethereum Foundation
  • Ethereum Whitepaper
  • How Ethereum Works
  • Ethereum network
  • Accounts & its creation
  • Ethereum Virtual Machine
  • Transactions and Types
  • Gas - Transactional Fee & Incentivisations
  • Blockchain Structure & Formation
  • Mining & Consensus
  • Smart Contracts
  • Consensus - PoW
  • New Proposal - PoS Casper
  • Introduction to DAO
  • Introduction to DApp
• Module IV - Building Ethereum Applications
  • DApp & its components
  • Client app
  • Smart contract
  • Web3js
  • Use Metamask to do transaction
  • Use the account keys directly to the application
  • Programming languages
  • Types of Architecture design
  • Client, Web3js, Network, Account/wallet.
  • Client, Middleware, Web3js, Network, Account/wallet
  • Programming in Solidity & Introduction
  • What is solidity
  • Solidity basics
  • Solidity Data Types
  • Functions and modifiers
  • Inheritance
  • Libraries
  • Solidity Events
  • ERC20, ERC223, ERC771 Tokens
  • Auditing security and testing
  • Using Remix, Testnet, Metamask
  • Test RPC
  • DApp Development Tools
• Module V - Alternate Public, Federated and Private Blockchain and comparisons
  • Limitation of Public Blockchains
    1. Limited scalability
    2. Limited privacy
    3. Storage constrains
    4. Non scalable consensus
    5. Lack of tools
    6. Lack of query capability
  • Enterprise expectations on Blockchain
    1. Highly scalable
    2. Granular level permission
    3. Using existing storage
    4. Rich query interface
    5. Integration with legacy systems
    6. Interoperability between Blockchain platforms
    7. Private transactions
  • What is private and Consortium Blockchain
  • Benefits of private Blockchain
    1. Network governence
    2. Transactions is cheap
    3. Validators are know
    4. Transaction approval is fast
    5. Read permission is restricted
  • What are the popular platforms avaiable for private/consortium Blockchain
    1. Quorum - JP Morgan
    2. R3 Corda
    3. Hyperledger
  • Why Quorum and what it has ?
    1. Privacy - Private smart contracts nad transactions
    2. Pluggable consensus - Raft, IBFT
    3. Peer permissioning- Only know identities can join the system by
    4. smart contracts
    5. Performance
  • Quorum Architecture Componets
    1. Quorum Node
    2. Transaction manager
    3. Constellation
  • Quorum Transaction Processing and Privacy
  • Quorum consensus
    1. Raft
    2. IBFT
    3. Quorumchain consensus - Deprecated
  • Explanation of Raft
  • Security and network permissioning
    1. Enodes and permissions
  • Quorum setup
    1. Prerequisites - Docker, Vagrant, Git
    2. Use sample projects
    3. Build from source
    4. Keys for Nodes - Private Key Storage Algorithm
  • Develop using quorum
  • Running quorum nodes (Maker, Observer, Voter)
  • Developing smart contract
  • Running permissioning
    1. Add nodes
    2. Remove nodes
  • Quorum API
  • Running the sample apps
  • Use cases and samples
    1. Financial transactions
    2. Contract Bidding
  • Why corda
  • Corda Key concepts
    1. Ledger
    2. Identity - Organisations
    3. States
    4. Contracts
    5. Transactions
    6. Flows
    7. Consensus
    8. Notaries
    9. Oracles
    10. Time windows
    11. Nodes
• Module VI - Enterprise Blockchain Applications & Hyperledger
  • Hyperledger Composer
  • Introduction To Blockchain & Enterprise Blockchain
  • Hyperledger Composer
  • What is Composer?
  • What are the components involved
  • How to create you first network
  • What is Composer Playground
  • What is model?
  • What is Query File
  • How to write transaction processing functions
  • How to create participants & assets
  • How to submit transactions with playground
  • Adding Identities
  • What is ACL
  • Export Composer From Playground
  • Start your fabric sample network
  • Install composer chainode
  • Deploy and Start the composer chaincode
  • Create Participants
  • Create Identities for participants
  • Generate Card files for the participant identities
  • Submit transactions for composer client
  • Composer Rest API server
  • Hyperledger Fabric
  • Getting Started With Hyperledger Fabric Network
  • Understanding the components
  • Explanation of Configuration Files
  • Crypto Configuration
  • Configtx
  • Defining the network topology
  • Docker Compose file with all the components explained
  • Orderer
  • Peer
  • CouchDB
  • Fabric CA
  • Scripts and commands to start the network
  • Developing our own chaincode in fabric go sdk
  • Installing it in the fabric network
  • With Scripts and commands
  • Invoking and querying transactions from command line
  • Creating a node application for fabric chaincode
  • Registering and enrolling users
  • Invoking transactions
  • Query Data from ledger
  • Creating a REST Api for Fabric Client
• Module VII - New Generation Technology & Shift of Blockchain (Optional)
  • Top Global companies and their work in Blockchain technology
  • New developments in Blockchain technologies & looking forward
  • Case Study: EOS
  • White paper analysis
  • Building application on EOS
  • Case Study: Auxledger
  • White paper analysis
  • Interoperability and Customizability with Auxledger
  • Integration of Blockchain with other technologies: IoT, AIML and BigData
  • Process excellence & Mistake proofing requirements
  • Implementation on R3 Corda
  • Implementation on MultiChain

Frequently Asked Questions

• What is PGP-BTM program intended to provide?
  • PGP-BTM program is intended to develop skills, improve Blockchain competency and provide in-depth knowledge for handling popular tools and platforms. On successful completion of the program, you can work in corporate roles in Blockchain domain.
• What is the minimum eligibility criterion for the program?

  • Any candidate who has a recognized Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in any discipline with 50% aggregate marks is eligible to register for this program.

    Also, minimum of two years full-time work experience after graduation or post-graduation is required.

    For meritorious fresher students / young professionals (CGPA > 7/10), the work experience is relaxed basis on application.

• When does the program begin?
  • The first batch of PGP-BTM program will begin in July 2018.
• What is the program structure?
  • PGP-BTM program is an 8 months blended program with online learning and regular on-campus contact sessions. Contact sessions are optional and will be held one weekend every month.
• What topics will I learn in the program?
  • PGP-BTM program provides a detailed study in Blockchain & Programming Fundamentals, Cryptocurrencies, Allied Business ecosystem, Public Blockchain, Federated and Private Blockchain. You also get a hands-on experience to use tools such as GoLang, Solidity, NodeJS, Corda, Azure, Hyperledger in this comprehensive specialized program.
• How much time commitment is recommended to complete the program?
  • A time commitment of seven to ten hours per week on an average is recommended to complete the program successfully.
• What is the program fee?
  • The total Program fee is 125000/- + GST.
• How to apply for the program?
  • You can apply through the online application form here. If you need guidance / assistance from our Admissions team, write to us at pgpbtm@amityonline.com or contact us at +91-844-809-37-46.
• Will I get a certificate at the end of the program?
  • Yes, you will get a completion certificate at the end of the program.
• Is the program entirely online?
  • Yes, the PGP-BTM program is entirely online. However, we have provision of campus classes for your remedial and better understanding of subjects.
• Where will be the classes held? Is it compulsory to attend?
  • Contact sessions / classes will be held in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Noida, Dubai and Singapore. No, it is not compulsory to attend contact sessions. If you do not attend, you will be provided with recorded lectures of classes.
• How will I get my doubts / queries solved in an online program?
  • Our interactive learning platform will connect you with peers and in-house subject matter experts for enhanced learning. You will get access to a personal mentor and guide throughout the program to solve your doubts / queries. Also, there will be regular interactive sessions with faculty through live webinars, personal hangouts to get clarification on subject matter.
• Will I get to interact with Industry Experts during the program?
  • Yes, there will be regular sessions both online and offline with faculty and industry experts.
• Can I register for only few specific modules and get a Certificate?
  • No, you will have to complete all the modules to get PGP-BTM Certificate.
• Will I have to spend extra on study material?
  • No, you will not have to spend extra money on study material as all the required learning material will be made available through Amity Online’s Learning Management System (LMS).
• Will I get access to the course content after program completion?
  • Yes, you will get access to the course content even after you complete the program. All the online video lectures and reading content will be provided on the LMS.
• Is there a refund policy for the program?
  • No, there is no refund policy for the program. Fees once received by Amity University Online will not be refunded.
• Is there a deferral policy for the program?
  • A deferral for the next batch can be availed on exceptional cases based on the approval of Admission Office.
• When does the program begin?
  • The third batch for the program begins on 9th Jan 2019
• Can I take both the Developer plus Architect track completely?
  • Yes, this course will be covering both.
• In Hyperledger Fabric Will you be training on the latest version V1.2?.
  • We'll be using v1.1 for better community support.
• Will you be training the smart contract and SDK in Golang/Node.js ?
  • Yes we'll develop chaincode with both.
• In Hyperledger are we building an application using Composer ?
  • Yeah that will be the first step in the course.
• In Hyperledger setting up a multinode script from scratch instead on byfn and eyfn scripts
  • We'll be creating our own scripts from scratch for setting up the network.
• In Ethereum, will you be training on Truffle as well ?
  • We will be doing weekly webinar on truffle and parallel coding with support.
• Will you be explaining building real-time app (end to end) on Ethereum and Quorum?
  • We will be doing simple app, as part of assignment we will develop as the course progress on ethereum and quorum. Each will get different use case and step by step development.
• In Ethereum will you set up a multinode private networks?
  • We will use public as well as private networks
• In Corda on which language, projects will be created (kotlin/java). In Kotlin, will u be giving basic training on Kotlin?
  • In corda, if developer is comfortable we will do with that language, kotlin is easy to learn.
• Will training include a multinode setup environment in corda ?
  • Corda is for multinode setup, we will do it.
• In Corda, does projects include transaction from outside database and moving data from ledger database to external?
  • It depends on the project use choose and our architecture we define, if you want to try we can do it.
• In Corda, will you be showing hands on different notary mechanism?
  • We will do corda notary and its internal functionalities.
• I have more queries. Whom can I connect with?
  • You can schedule a one-on-one session with our Admission Counsellor by clicking on ‘Request a Call back’.