Comp5349 Cloud Computing Services - Assessment Answers

Plagiarism 

Plagiarism is a form of cheating, by representing someone else's work as your own or using someone else's work (another student or author) without acknowledging it with a reference. This is a serious breach of the Academic Regulations and will be dealt with accordingly. Students found to have plagiarised can be excluded from the program.

Plagiarism occurs whenever you do any of the following things without acknowledging the original source:

• Copyinformation from any source (including the study guide, books, newspapers, the internet)
• Use another person's concepts orideas
• Summarise or paraphrase another person's

How do I avoid plagiarism?

To ensure you are not plagiarising, you must acknowledge with a reference whenever you:

• use another person's ideas, opinions ortheory
• include any statistics, graphs or images that have been compiled or created by another person or organization
• Paraphrase another's written or spoken

What are the penalties?

The penalties for plagiarism are:

• Deduction ofmarks,
• A mark of zero for the assignment or the unit,or
• Exclusion from the

Plagiarism is dealt with on a case-by-case basis and the penalties will reflect the seriousness of the breach.

Short Answer Questions

Part A:

Question

1. This question contains two sub questions a and b.

2. This question contains two sub questions a and b.

3. This question contains two sub questions a and b.

Contains variable elements of comprehension, analysis, evaluation, and some application elements.

Information content misuse can create moral and ethical dilemmas that people are likely to face in the workplace. Is it okay to use content like music, movies, and books without paying for it simply because it?s available and „everyone else does?? content creation is expensive and relies on someone?s talents. The creators have a reasonable expectation to be compensated for their work. Information ethics govern the ethical and moral issues arising from the development and use of information technologies, as well as the creation, collection, duplication, distribution, and processing of information itself (with or without the aid of computer technologies). Ethical dilemmas in this area usually arise not as simple, clear-cut situations but as clashes between competing goals, responsibilities, and loyalties. Inevitably, there will be more than one socially acceptable or “correct” decision. For this reason, acting ethically and legally are not always the same. Answer the following questions:

4. This question contains two sub questions a and b.

Circle ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ where applicable for each term below: 

Yes	No	information
Yes	No	research
Yes	No	analysis
Yes	No	data
Yes	No	input
Yes	No	technology

Yes	No	organisation
Yes	No	output
Yes	No	management
Yes	No	processing

b. Thebelow illustration represents a Payroll Payment What type of information systems is it? Why? What organisational level is it used for? Describe the activities depicted below.

5. This question contains two sub questions a and b.

The illustration below represents the relationship between the Firm, its MIS Infrastructure and Business Capabilities. Analyse it and determine whether the following statement/s represent true account of such relationship. Circle ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ where applicable for each item below:

Circle ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ where applicable for each item below:

YES	NO	The services a firm is capable of providing to its customers, suppliers, and employees are a direct function of its MIS infrastructure.
YES	NO	The only service that will be affected by the quality of the MIS infrastructure is the service provided to customers.
YES	NO	Ideally, this infrastructure should support the firm?s business and information systems strategy.
YES	NO	This infrastructure should support the firm?s information systems strategy, regardless of the business strategy.
YES	NO	The above illustration focusses more than anything else on the relationship between Business Strategy and IT strategy.
YES	NO	The above illustration represents the centrality of MIS infrastructure and services to the achievement of firm success.
YES	NO	Amazon is routinely sited as the most popular online shopping site. The main reason for this is that Amazon has been in this business more than any other businesses.
YES	NO	Ultimately, what the firm delivers to customers, its quality, is a direct function of the power of its infrastructure.
YES	NO	New information technologies have a powerful impact on business and IT strategies, as well as the services that can be provided to customers.

a. Describe the report depicted below. What type of information system produces suchreport? Justify your 

6. A family-owned manufacturer of budget products has grown exponentially over the last few years. However, the company is having difficulty preparing for future growth. The only information system used is an old accounting system mainly using spreadsheets. The company has one manufacturing plant located in Al-Ain; and three warehouses, in Al-Ain, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi. The sales force is national, and it purchases about a third of its parts and materials from a single overseas supplier. You have been hired to recommend the information systems it should implement in order to maintain its competitive edge. However, there is not enough money for a full-blown, cross-functional enterprise application, and you will need to limit the first step to a single functional area. Rank your choices of information systems, with justification. Use the table below to explain your order of choice/s.

Your order of Choice/s of Information Systems	Justification/s

Part B:

Case Study/ Application Question- Answer the following question

Based on the course material, UPS Websites and relevant information resources available on the web, answer the questions below. Question includes sub questions. .

7. United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS), is a global company with one of the most recognised and admired brands in the world, using advanced technology, access to global resources, and an integrated network of physical, technological, and human assets.

Introduction

A cloud computing service makes a business wonderful. Using cloud service, many changes occur in business strategies. The cloud has all service as an infrastructure, platforms, and services as per organization required. Now a day, different cloud computing service vendors in market, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and many more.

Part A:

1(a): Cloud computing have many characteristics, but some essential characteristics, which are basic for it are:

• On demand self-services: Cloud computing services provide some services without any human interaction, such as network and server service, email, web applications, and more computer services.
• Large Network Space: Cloud services provide data over the cloud and on different thin and thick clients, such as PDA’s, Mobile, and laptops.
• Resource Pooling: The cloud computing service providers share resources in pooled to serve multiple customers. They used multiple-tenant model for resource sharing, such as physical and virtual resources are dynamically allocated and reallocate according to customer needs. Resources are data, email services, processing space, primary memory, virtual machine, servers, and network bandwidth.
• Rapid Elasticity: It provides a rapid elasticity to be purchased any service in any quantity at anywhere and anytime to the consumer.
• Services for management: Cloud computing also provides measurement services for usage of your services. It provides transparency for controlling your services. It works a pay per use. It also provides bills for your uses of data centers services.
• Multi Tenacity: All the cloud computing organization provides some services related to policy driven enforcement, separation, remoteness, authority, and data store models for different consumer constituencies. Any consumer can get other public cloud providers services from same or different organization( Schouten, 2014).

1(b): Cloud computing have few disadvantages in some services are:

• Security management in the cloud: In some organization such as bank and share, market many important data being stored remotely. Therefore, that data should be safe from third parties.
• Bandwidth Limitation: Some vendors provide limited bandwidth for network access that was a difficult task for an organization.
• Data management: Few cloud service providers are not good in data management and in future, it will be disaster with your important data.
• Limited controls: Few cloud service providers are provides some controls under the organization that will be an issue for an organization sometimes.

2(a): According to the given scenario, sandwich shop would maintain some services, such as Taking orders, open and closing the store, selling to the consumer, ordering supplies to customers, cleaning the store, pay roll management system for employees, hiring process of employees, making statements for finance and also email them, paying taxes, managing cash. So many of these processes could be helped by better management information systems. Mainly for those stores that require stored records, such as payments details, daily cash management, taxes, salaries of employees and information collection.

2(b): Customer Relationship Management System uses a distributed information systems to coordinate all of the work processes surrounding the workplace’s relations with their consumers. The information systems store consumers and vendors information from multiple sources, such as mobile phone number, e-mail address, Wi-Fi devices, sales and marketing systems, and websites. Workplace can obtain a unified view of consumers. Those data will help to that particular firm to handle customers by giving them special offers.

3(a): According to this article, all processes of a business are organized properly. Those business processes are fully focused to produce a better success in business. Some e-policies are must for employers and employees. Coordinators have to notice and give attention to official work. All organization have own policies for running proper business, although every organization have own e-policies for handling business processes.

3(b): Information systems can help organizations to protect from outsiders without authentication. They have some authentication to achieve great efficiencies. Using authentication any organization can become more flexible. Integration and coordination of business processes of an organization makes improvement in customer services. According to need all organization have different level of authentication such as pin number, biometric, and digital certificates.

4(a):

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