Assessment details for ALL students Assessment item 1— Written Assessment Due date: Week 5 Friday (07-Apr-2017) 11:45 PM ASSESSMENT Weighting: Length: 15% (or 15 marks) Max. 1500 words excluding references 1 Objectives This assessment item relates to the unit learning outcomes 1 and 2 of the unit profile. Enabling objectives 1. Acquire fundamental knowledge on cloud computing; 2. Become familiar with cloud service providers and their services; 3. Learn to evaluate and manage cloud services and their uses for an application General Information The purpose of this assignment is to compare and contrast two cloud service providers and their services. By doing this assignment, you will acquire a good understanding of available cloud service providers and their service offerings. This will help you to determine appropriate services for developing smart applications. What do you need to do? The assignment requires you to do the following:  Identify four cloud service providers who offer PaaS (Platform as a Service) to develop applications.  Select one of the cloud service providers from your list for further investigation. If necessary, create a trial account and use all the different services it offers. Take screenshots to record some of those services while using them.  Compare and contrast between Bluemix (used in this unit) and the PaaS service of the cloud service provider you have chosen. What do you need to submit? You are required to submit a written report in a single Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) document. The report should contain 1000-1500 words excluding references with ±100 words slack. The report must contain the following sections (feel free to add one or more sections if necessary):  Cover page/title page, Table of contents and abstract  Introduction  Cloud service providers o List all identified cloud service providers who offer PaaS (Platform as a Service) to develop applications o Select a service provider out of the list to compare with Bluemix and write two reasons to justify your choice  Comparison and contrast with Bluemix – this is the body of the report and should be written as detailed as possible. You can include screenshots and other media to enrich your report (you are not allowed to use screenshots and media content from internet – they must be your own. It is a good idea to try the environment before your answer this section. This section must andonly include comparison and contrast between IBM Bluemix and your chosen service provider for the following: o Services offered for smart applications development such as Internet of Things (IoT) applications, Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and so on. o The quality of design and navigation of the PaaS system. o Step by step process required to create and deploy a “Hello World” application. o The level of difficulties for development and deployment process of the cloud environment. o How easy to manage the application in the context of the following:  Allocate and upgrade resources like memory, space, etc.  Update/amend host URL, hosting data center and program/code of the application.  Your opinion - Based on your comparison and contrast of two cloud providers, o Which service provider performed better and why? o Propose one area of improvement for each, you would like to see over their current services and why?  Conclusion  References Plagiarism Checking Information It is VERY important that you do not copy content directly from either the text or Internet resources: this assignment is to be in your own words. You will lose marks if you do not use your own words! Actual plagiarism will result in the instigation of the student misconduct process. On uploading your assignment for the first time you will be able to immediately see your similarity score. However, a 24 hour delay exists for the release of similarity scores for the submission of successive items (drafts). To be clear, the delay will not apply to your first draft which will receive a Turnitin similarity score as soon as possible. This mandatory delay was implemented by Turnitin to minimise misuse of the similarity-checking service by students who were simply modifying their submissions to avoid match detection and without citing sources appropriately.Marking guide: Student Number & Name: Marker / Date: Sections Marks Comments The report quality –  Is the report easy to follow?  Is it prepared using formal report writing style such as table of content, page numbers, appropriate referencing (if any), cover page, introduction, conclusion and so on. /2 ( 1 for each bullet points) Cloud service providers – How well student answered the bullet points below.  List all identified cloud service providers who offer PaaS (Platform as a Service) to develop applications  Select a service provider out of the list to compare with Bluemix and write two reasons to justify your choice /3 marks ( 1.5 for each bullet points) Comparison and contrast - How well student answered the bullet points below.  Services offered for smart applications development such as Internet of Things (IoT) application, Artificial Intelligent (AI) application and so on. (1.5 marks)  The quality of design and navigation of the PaaS system. (1.5 marks)  Step by step process require to create and deploy a “Hello World” application. (1.5 marks)  The level of difficulties for development and deployment process of the cloud environment. (1.5 marks)  How easy to manage the app in the context of the following? ( 1+1=2 marks) o Allocate and upgrade resources like memory, space, etc. o Update/amend host URL, hosting data center and program/code of the application. /8 marks ( 1.5 marks for first four bullet points and 2 marks for the last one) References –  Everything you take from other resources need to be reference appropriately.  Referencing style – we use APA referencing style /2 marks ( 1marks for each bullet points) Total Marks: /15