Activity Presentations

Every activity ends with a short individual presentation. The capstone presentation is more detailed.

7.1 Standard Activity Presentation Format (10 min)

Section	Time	What to cover
Output demo	3 min	Show the running resources in the AWS Console or the terraform apply output. Show the successful destroy.
Technical approach	3 min	Walk through your key Terraform or CloudFormation code. Explain your design decisions.
Challenges	2 min	What went wrong. How you found the cause. What you learned.
Learnings	2 min	What clicked this week. What you would do differently next time.

Section	Time	What to cover
Architecture overview	5 min	Walk through your architecture diagram. Explain all components and why you made key design decisions.
Terraform code walkthrough	7 min	Show your module structure. Walk through one complete module. Show variables, outputs, and the root module call.
Deployment and testing	4 min	Show the ALB DNS working. Jump host SSH working. RDS reachable from jump host. terraform destroy confirmed.
Blockers and learnings	4 min	What was hardest. What you debugged. What you are taking away from the internship.

All Terraform code is committed to GitLab with a clean history
terraform plan shows no unexpected changes
Architecture diagram is complete and committed to docs/
README explains how to deploy and destroy the infrastructure
All testing notes are written up
Resources are NOT destroyed before the presentation — you need them for the demo
You can explain every resource and every Terraform block in your code
terraform destroy confirmed and resources cleaned up AFTER the presentation