Assessment item 3 - AWS implementation back to top Value: 10% Due Date: 04-May-2020 Return Date: 25-May-2020 Submission method options: Alternative submission method TASK back to top Please Note:You...

Assessment item 3 - AWS implementation

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TASK

Please Note:You are required to do EITHER task 1 OR Task 2. DO NOT submit both tasks

Task 1-DO NOTattempt this task if you have completed Task 2

Overview

This assessment item requires you to produce a short report for some of the Technical and Development staff of DSI.

Task

DSI is starting to migrate some of its applications and services to a public cloud. Many of the technical staff have had no experience in the Cloud and are concerned about this process. You have been asked to create a WordPress site on AWS where staff can share their experiences and ask other staff members about problems and issues that concern them.

1. You are to produce an instruction manual that describes:
   
   
   1. How to create a WordPress instance on AWS (40 marks). This instruction manual must:
      
      
      • Describe all the steps that are required to access AWS and create a working WordPress instance,
      
      
      • Include screenshots of each step of the process, along with sufficient explanatory text to ensure that another user could follow the instructions without problems.
      
      
      
      
   
   
   
   


2. Your WordPress site should contain brief instructions for users on how to add comments and photos or screenshots to your site (30 marks).
   
   
   1. These instructions must also be included in your instruction manual, along with a screenshot of the completed site.
   
   
   
   


3. Your instruction manual should also contain brief instructions on:
   
   
   1. How you have secured your WordPress site (20 marks),
   
   
   2. How you will provide users with secure access to your WordPress site (10 marks).
   
   
   
   

You will be given access to an AWS Classroom and an AWS Educate account. You will be able to access the AWS services that you need to create your WordPress site through the AWS classroom. AWS has provided a tutorial to take you through the process of creating a WordPress site. It is highly recommended that you review this tutorial before commencing work on creating your WordPress site. The tutorial can be accessed at:https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tutorials/launch-a-wordpress-website/?trk=gs_card#

You are not required to create or write any other text on your WordPress site. You are also not required to implement secure access for users, but you must have investigated this process.

You are also strongly advised to shut down your site as soon as you have completed all tests and documentation.

Task 2 -DO NOTattempt this task if you have completed Task 1

Overview

This assessment item requires you to produce a short report for some of the Technical and Development staff of DSI.

Task

DSI is starting to migrate some of its applications and services to a public cloud. Many of the technical staff have had no experience in the Cloud and are concerned about this process. You have recommended to DSI management that they should consider the use of microservices as part of their application architecture. DSI now want you to redesign one of their monolithic applications as a microservice application

DSI has an old and image and video processing application. This is used by a number of DSI customers to upload images and videos for inclusion in spatial layers for their own use. DSI create the specialised layer for each customer and supply it to them when complete. The application has a number of modules as shown in Figure 1, below. Some of these modules may not need any development work done on them for long periods of time as their functions and outputs are relatively stable. Other modules though can be modified quite frequently as changes occur in the Industry. Other modules experience great peaks in workload which often slows services to DSI customers.

Figure 1: DSI Image and Video Processing Application architecture

1. Which modules are likely to be relatively stable, a together with the reasons for this categorisation,


2. Which modules are likely to require frequent modification, together with the reasons for this categorisation,


3. Which modules are likely to experience workload peaks, together with the reasons for this categorisation.

1. Which modules should be refactored first?


2. Discuss how a move to a microservice approach for these modules would resolve issues around workload peaks?

3. Discuss how a move to a microservice approach will improve DSI’s ability to maintain high availability for this application.

4. Draw a diagram that shows the architecture of the Image and Video Processing Application after the transition to a microservice approach.

RATIONALE

SUBJECT LEARNING OUTCOMES

This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:

• be able to compare and evaluate the ability of different cloud computing architectures to meet a set of given business requirements.


• be able to evaluate a set of business requirements to determine suitability for a cloud computing delivery model.


• be able to identify and design an ICT Risk Management strategy for a cloud computing delivery plan to meet business requirements.


• be able to critically analyse business requirements to plan a migration to a cloud model.

GRADUATE LEARNING OUTCOMES

This task also contributes to the assessment of the followingCSU Graduate Learning Outcome/s:

• Information and Research Literacies (Knowledge) - CSU Graduates demonstrate that disciplinary knowledge is developed through research and evidence.


• Information and Research Literacies (Skill) - CSU Graduates demonstrate the skills required to locate, access and critically evaluate existing information and data.


• Digital Literacies (Knowledge) - CSU Graduates understand professional, social and cultural implications of the global use of technology.


• Digital Literacies (Skill) - CSU Graduates use, create, communicate and share multimodal information in digital environments.


• Digital Literacies (Application) - CSU Graduates ethically, legally, safely and critically use technology to select, create and share information and participate in online learning, professional and social communities.


• Professional Practice (Knowledge) - CSU Graduates possess the knowledge and understanding of the discipline and the nature of professionalism required for the given profession or discipline in contemporary societies.


• Professional Practice (Skill) - CSU Graduates demonstrate discipline-specific technical capabilities and self-appraisal required for a beginning practitioner or professional.