Overview
Emerging technologies, such as cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT), enable you to rapidly design, develop and deploy smart applications. In this unit, you are introduced to the software, devices, and techniques supporting these technologies. You will learn the fundamentals of cloud computing as well as various cloud environments and services, such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). You will use a Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud environment, gaining practical experience in designing, developing and deploying smarter cloud-based applications.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite units: COIT20245 Introduction to Programming and COIT20246 ICT Services Management
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 3 - 2023
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student evaluations
More practical-based assignments would be highly advantageous.
Introduce additional cloud/IoT practical activities into assessments.
Feedback from Student evaluations
Improved student access to the cloud environments such as Microsoft Azure or IBM that are used in the unit
Identify the cloud environment with the best student access so it can be integrated into the unit activities.
- Evaluate cloud computing concepts and IoT components for smart applications/systems development
- Analyse the application of cloud computing and IoT technologies in different scenarios
- Design and develop cloud based smart applications for business solutions
- Deploy a smart application using cloud computing and IoT technologies.
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is adopted by organisations, governments and individuals in many countries and provides a widely used and consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is increasingly being used when developing job descriptions and role profiles. ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile.
This unit contributes to the following workplace skills as defined by SFIA 7 (the SFIA code is included)
- Systems design (DESN)
- Systems integration and build (SINT)
- Programming/software development (PROG)
- Testing (TEST)
- Release and deployment (RELM)
- Application support (ASUP)
- Solution architecture (ARCH)
- IT infrastructure (ITOP)
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
1 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||
2 - Group Work - 30% | ||||
3 - Project (applied) - 50% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
1 - Knowledge | ||||
2 - Communication | ||||
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||
4 - Research | ||||
5 - Self-management | ||||
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||
7 - Leadership | ||||
8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
1 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||
2 - Group Work - 30% | ||||||||
3 - Project (applied) - 50% |
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Node.js and NODE-RED
- IBM Cloud CLI
- Eclipse Oxygen with IBM Cloud Tool
- Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface (CLI)
- An Azure supported Java Development Kit (JDK)
- An Eclipse IDE supporting Azure Toolkit and IBM cloud tool
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
r.sandu@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Cloud computing and modern networking
Chapter
Chapter 1 and 2 from 'Foundations of Modern Networking: SDN, NFV, QoE, IoT, and Cloud 1st Edition, by William Stallings' and Azure Fundamentals Course a
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Smart applications and modern networking
Chapter
Chapter 1 and 2 from 'Foundations of Modern Networking: SDN, NFV, QoE, IoT, and Cloud 1st Edition, by William Stallings' and Azure Fundamentals Course and Azure Fundamentals Course
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Cloud technologies
Chapter
Chapter 5 from 'Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture by Erl, T., Mahmood, Z., and Puttini R.' and Azure Fundamentals Course
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Cloud mechanisms
Chapter
Chapter 7, 8 and 9 from 'Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture by Erl, T., Mahmood, Z., and Puttini R.' and https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview?topic=overview-whatis-platform
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Enjoy the break.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Cloud computing and virtualization
Chapter
Chapter 7, 8 and 9 from 'Foundations of Modern Networking: SDN, NFV, QoE, IoT, and Cloud 1st Edition, by William Stallings' and AZ-204T00A-Educator-Resources-Developing-solutions-for-Microsoft-Azure and AWS Academy Cloud Developing
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Cloud Security
Chapter
Chapter 6 and 10 from 'Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture by Erl, T., Mahmood, Z., and Puttini R.'
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Enjoy the break.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Cloud security and architectures
Chapter
Chapters 11 and 12 from 'Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture by Erl, T., Mahmood, Z., and Puttini R.'and AZ-500 Certification: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Cloud delivery model and cost metrics
Chapter
Chapter 14 and 15 from 'Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture by Erl, T., Mahmood, Z., and Puttini R.' and Azure Learning resources: AZ-900T00
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Understanding the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart application
Chapter
Chapter 14 from 'Foundations of Modern Networking: SDN, NFV, QoE, IoT, and Cloud 1st Edition, by William Stallings'
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
The IoT: architecture and implementation for cloud
Chapter
Chapter 15 from 'Foundations of Modern Networking: SDN, NFV, QoE, IoT, and Cloud 1st Edition, by William Stallings'
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
A convergence of Cloud, IoT, and Bigdata
Chapter
Chapters 1 and 4 from 'The Internet of Things: How Smart TVs, Smart Cars, Smart Homes, and Smart Cities Are Changing the World by Miller, Michael' and Some slides are adopted from 'SG13 Regional Workshop for Africa on “ITU-T Standardization Challenges for Developing Countries Working for a Connected Africa” by Gyu Myoung Lee'
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Smart problems and smart businesses
Chapter
Chapters 12, 14 and 15 from 'The Internet of Things: How Smart TVs, Smart Cars, Smart Homes, and Smart Cities Are Changing the World by Miller, Michael
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Written Assessment
This is an individual assignment. In this assignment, you will write a report that will let you compare and contrast between two Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud providers and their services. You are also required to create a simple application in each of the cloud services as part of your comparative exercise. The assignment requires you to:
- identify a PaaS and IaaS cloud provider and investigate all the services it provides;
- compare and contrast your chosen cloud provider and services with IBM Cloud services;
- create a simple application in both of the cloud providers; and
- prepare a report based on the given criteria in the assessment specification.
Detailed information about this assignment can be accessed from the Moodle unit website.
Week 5 Friday (15 Dec 2023) 11:59 pm AEST
Two weeks after submission
The students are assessed based on their:
1. knowledge about existing cloud providers;
2. ability to identify and evaluate available services of a cloud provider; and
3. analytical capability to compare and contrast between services of different service providers.
More detailed marking criteria can be accessed from the Moodle unit website.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Evaluate cloud computing concepts and IoT components for smart applications/systems development
- Analyse the application of cloud computing and IoT technologies in different scenarios
2 Group Work
This is a group assignment and must be accomplished in a group of 3 members. The assignment requires you to select a topic from a given list and research on that topic. You should find scholarly articles (e.g. published journal articles, books, conference papers) and report current scientific developments relevant to the topic. The investigation should be done in a team environment which requires you to:
- choose a topic from the given list based on the given instructions in the assessment specification;
- research multiple scholarly resources to report the scientific developments relevant to the topic; and
- prepare a report according to the given guidelines in the assessment specification.
Detailed information about this assignment can be accessed from the unit website in Moodle.
Week 8 Friday (12 Jan 2024) 11:59 pm AEST
Two weeks after submission
The students are assessed based on their:
1. research skills to locate and use quality scholarly articles relevant to their topic;
2. capability to understand and analyse scientific articles in depth;
3. quality and level of detail in the report; and
4. effective teamwork skills.
More detailed marking criteria can be accessed from the Moodle unit website.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Research
- Leadership
- Evaluate cloud computing concepts and IoT components for smart applications/systems development
- Analyse the application of cloud computing and IoT technologies in different scenarios
- Design and develop cloud based smart applications for business solutions
3 Project (applied)
In Assignment 3, you will continue working with the same group as your Assignment 2. In this assignment, you are required to analyse a given business case and issues within it and come up with a smart application that will address the identified issues. You will write a report to demonstrate the process you followed to create the smart application. The assignment requires you to:
- analyse the given business case and identify issues associated with the business;
- design a smart application based solution to address the identified issues;
- develop and deploy the application in IBM Cloud; and
- prepare a report (as per the instructions given in the assignment specification) to illustrate your activities during the smart application development.
Detailed information about this assignment can be accessed from the Moodle unit website.
Week 12 Friday (9 Feb 2024) 11:59 pm AEST
On the date of certification of grades
The students are assessed based on:
1. depth of analysis to identify the current and upcoming issues in the given business case;
2. level of appropriateness of the solution and its justification;
3. completeness of the development and deployment of the solution; and
4. quality and level of detail in the report.
More detailed marking criteria can be accessed from the Moodle unit website.
- Knowledge
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Design and develop cloud based smart applications for business solutions
- Deploy a smart application using cloud computing and IoT technologies.
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
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