# Course 1: Introduction to TiDB (Code#: 201.1_v6)

## Prerequisites
+ None

## Description
+ This course introduces the core components and their concepts build up the distributed TiDB cluster and TiDB Cloud. 

## Audience
+ Any roles

## Level
+ Introductory

## Duration
+ 1.5 hours

## Summary
+ Describe the TiDB cluster architecture
+ Describe the TiDB Servers compute cluster
+ Describe the TiKV Servers storage cluster
+ Describe what HTAP is
+ Describe the benefits of using TiDB Cloud
+ Understand some TiDB use cases
+ Understand some wonderful features of TiDB
+ Launch TiDB playground sandbox by using TiUP
+ Get started with TiDB Cloud Developer Tier