Modified by: Samira Baho Moderated by: A/Prof J Agbinya April, 2019 ME605 – Cloud Engineering Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines School School of IT and Engineering (SITE) Course Name Master of Engineering (MENG) Unit Code ME605 Unit Title Cloud Engineering Assessment Author Samira Baho Assessment Type Individual Assessment Title Assignment 2 Unit Learning Outcomes covered in this assessment This assignment assesses the below Unit Learning Outcomes; students should be able to demonstrate their achievements in them: • Compare and report on cloud delivery, metrics, pricing models; • Evaluate cloud various service quality metrics; • Apply and evaluate the various cloud techniques for business case studies. Weight 20% of Total Assessment Total Marks 50 Word limit 2000 Release Date Week 6 Due Date 6:00 PM Tuesday 28, May 2019 (Week 11) Submission Guidelines • All work must be submitted on Moodle by the due date along with a completed Assignment Cover Page. • The assignment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 11-pt Calibri (Body) font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings. • Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using IEEE referencing style for School of Information Technology and Engineering respectively. Extension • If an extension of time to submit work is required, a Special Consideration Application must be submitted directly to the School's Administration Officer, in Melbourne on Level 6 or in Sydney on Level 7. You must submit this application three working days prior to the due date of the assignment. Further information is available at: http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies- procedures-and-guidelines/specialconsiderationdeferment Academic Misconduct • Academic Misconduct is a serious offence. Depending on the seriousness of the case, penalties can vary from a written warning or zero marks to exclusion http://www.mit.edu.au/about http://www.mit.edu.au/about http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-procedures-and-guidelines/special-considerationdeferment http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-procedures-and-guidelines/special-considerationdeferment http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-procedures-and-guidelines/special-considerationdeferment http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-procedures-and-guidelines/special-considerationdeferment http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-procedures-and-guidelines/special-considerationdeferment http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-procedures-and-guidelines/special-considerationdeferment http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-procedures-and-guidelines/special-considerationdeferment http ...

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April, 2019
ME605 – Cloud Engineering
Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
School School of IT and Engineering (SITE)
Course Name Master of Engineering (MENG)
Unit Code ME605
Unit Title Cloud Engineering
Assessment
Author
Samira Baho
Assessment
Type
Individual
Assessment
Title
Assignment 2
Unit Learning
Outcomes
covered in this

2. assessment
This assignment assesses the below Unit Learning Outcomes;
students should be
able to demonstrate their achievements in them:
• Compare and report on cloud delivery, metrics, pricing
models;
• Evaluate cloud various service quality metrics;
• Apply and evaluate the various cloud techniques for business
case studies.
Weight 20% of Total Assessment
Total Marks 50
Word limit 2000
Release Date Week 6
Due Date 6:00 PM Tuesday 28, May 2019 (Week 11)
Submission
Guidelines
• All work must be submitted on Moodle by the due date along
with a
completed Assignment Cover Page.
• The assignment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 11-
pt Calibri (Body)
font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with
appropriate section
headings.
• Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and
listed
appropriately at the end in a reference list using IEEE

3. referencing style for
School of Information Technology and Engineering
respectively.
Extension • If an extension of time to submit work is required, a
Special Consideration
Application must be submitted directly to the School's
Administration Officer,
in Melbourne on Level 6 or in Sydney on Level 7. You must
submit this
application three working days prior to the due date of the
assignment.
Further information is available at:
http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-
procedures-and-guidelines/specialconsiderationdeferment
Academic
Misconduct
• Academic Misconduct is a serious offence. Depending on the
seriousness of
the case, penalties can vary from a written warning or zero
marks to exclusion
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from the course or rescinding the degree. Students should make
themselves
familiar with the full policy and procedure available at:
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procedures-and-guidelines/Plagiarism-Academic-Misconduct-
Policy-
Procedure. For further information, please refer to the
Academic Integrity
Section in your Unit Description.
Assignment Description

5. Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS is a cloud computing model
whereby all the infrastructure is provided
and maintained by cloud providers: servers, storage,
networking, and so on. With IaaS, an organization
can make wise investment in quickly growing with cloud rather
than wasting huge amounts on purchasing
and installing new hardware.
With IaaS model, organizations simply pay a monthly fee to use
resources as per their needs and cloud
providers are responsible for ensuring the maintenance of all the
hardware and virtualized services.
IaaS provides the tools and resources needed for development,
but the organization is responsible for
provisioning and managing its own development platform. This
means developers will need to
orchestrate their own execution processes, manage their own
data services and maintain the underlying
OS. This model gives development team more flexibility when
adding unique features and tweaking apps
and services for maximum performance.
You work as senior developer for software a development
company which develops applications for
mobile platforms. Your company is planning to focus on
building great applications without having to
worry about the infrastructure. Your manager asked you to
compare and contrast two cloud service
providers and their delivery pricing model and other delivery
metrics for IaaS.
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 the
appropriate cloud provider that provides tools

6. and resources needed for developing applications for mobile
platforms.
Your Task is:
1. To identify four cloud service providers who offer
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to
develop applications for mobile platforms.
2. Select one of the cloud service providers from your list for
further investigation. Compare
and contrast between Google Cloud (used in this unit) and the
Infrastructure as a Service of
the cloud service provider you have chosen.
3. You are required to submit a written report in a Word
document. The report should contain
maximum 2000 words excluding references.
The report must contain the following sections (feel free to add
one or more sections if necessary):
• Cover page/title page
• Table of contents
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Cloud service providers:
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1. List all identified cloud service providers who offer IaaS
(Infrastructure as a
Service)
2. Select a service provider out of the list to compare with
Google Cloud and write
reasons to justify your choice
3. Comparison and contrast with Google Cloud – this is the
body of the report and
should be written as detailed as possible.
This section must only include comparison and contrast between
Google Cloud and
your chosen service provider for the following metrics:
o Time and effort to create new application environment
o Service Availability (percentage of time system is available)
o Security (Privacy & Data Protection Policies)
o Costing model (service cost)
o Elasticity (automatically add and remove resources)
o Storage
o Your opinion - Based on your comparison and contrast of two
cloud

8. providers
o Which service provider would you recommend and why?
• Conclusion
• References IEEE style
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Marking Criteria
ITEM Description of the section Marks
Abstract & Introduction Content and outlook of the website 5
Cloud Service Providers
Level of details presented in the report about cloud
service providers and their services
5
Comparison and contrast
between service providers
• Time and effort to create new application
environment
• Service Availability (percentage of time

9. system is available)
• Security (Privacy & Data Protection Policies)
• Costing model (service cost)
• Elasticity (automatically add and remove
resources)
• Storage
20
Your Opinion
Based on your comparison
and contrast of two cloud
providers.
5
Your recommended
Service provider
Recommendation and Justification for
recommendation
5
Conclusion

10. Remind reader purpose of the
report, and recap main points,
5
Reference
IEEE style
2
Report Presentation Report writing style, such as table of
contents,
spelling, grammar
3
Total 50
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Marking Rubric:

11. Grade
Mark
HD
40-50
D
35-44
CR
30-34
P
25-29
Fail
< 25
Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Abstract and
Introduction
/15
Excellently written, clear
and concise abstract
with highly relevant
background
Well written
abstract, relevant
background
Contains

12. background
abstract brief
Brief background
and abstract short
Abstract and
introduction
confusing and not
easy to follow
Cloud Service
Providers
/10
Detailed report about
cloud service providers
and their services
offered. Clear and easy
to understand
Detailed report
about cloud
service providers
and their services
offered
Detailed report
about cloud service
providers and their
services offered is
not consistent
Brief report about
cloud service

13. providers and their
services
No report about
different service
providers
Comparison and
contrast between
service providers
/20
Report compares and
contrasts providers
clearly. The report
points to specific metrics
to illustrate the
comparison. The paper
includes only the
information relevant to
the comparison.
Report compares
and contrasts
providers clearly.
The report points to
specific metrics to
illustrate the
comparison..
The presented
solution

14. demonstrated an
average degree of
difficulty that would
be an average
professional to
implement.
The presented solution
demonstrated a low
degree of difficulty that
would be easy to
implement.
Comparison not complete
Recommendation
and Justification for
recommendation
/5
Effective
recommendations,
solutions, and/or plans of
action were provided.
Specific data or facts were
referred when necessary to
support the
recommendation
Effective
recommendations
and/or plans of action

15. were partially provided.
Specific data or facts
were occasionally
referred when
necessary to support
the recommendation
Effective
recommendations
and/or plans of action
inadequate.
Specific data or
facts were not
always referred
when necessary
Effective recommendations
and/or plans of action
provided.
Specific data or facts
necessary to support the
recommendation was not
provided.
No recommendation and
justification reported
Conclusion
/5
Well-rounded,

16. reminds reader of
report, recaps
main points,
reader is not left
wondering about
anything.
-Reminds reader
of report, recaps
main points. Ideas
may not be
presented with
new wording.
Reminds
reader of
report, recaps
main points.
Reminds reader of
report
Does not remind reader of
main topic and/or does not
recaps main points
Reference style
/2
Clear styles with
excellent source of
references.

17. Clear
referencing/
style
Generally good
referencing/style
Unclear
referencing/style
Lacks consistency with
many errors
Report
Presentation
/3
Proper writing.
Professionally
presented
Properly written,
with some minor
deficiencies
Mostly good, but
some structure or
presentation
problems
Acceptable
report

18. presentation
Poor report structure,
careless presentation