Computer Science Assignment - Report

COIT20233 Assessment Details Assessment item 3—Report Due date: 11:45 pm AEST, Friday, Week 9 ASSESSMENT Weighting: 30% 3 Length: 2500 – 3500 words Objectives This assessment item relates to course learning outcomes numbers 4 and 6 as stated in the course profile. This assignment is designed to stimulate critical thinking outside of the classroom by requiring students to write a formal academic report. You will need to follow the AREA process in chapters 2 and 3 of Your Business Degree (COIT20233 textbook) to analyse the assessment task, research relevant information, evaluate the information you find and to write an academic report in which you present your findings or outcomes and make recommendations on future practice. This assessment task will assess your skills in critical thinking, researching information, forming an opinion, academic writing, logical ordering of ideas and your ability to support your arguments with quotes from literature. These objectives will be measured by the ‘closeness of fit’ to meeting the assessment task, assessment requirements and assessment criteria listed below. Please note that there is a wealth of material available on the Libguide website for this course that you should use to help you gather and evaluate relevant information for writing your report ( http://libguides.library.cqu.edu.au/coit20233http://libguides.library.cqu.edu.au/coit20233). Assessment task Students are required to write an academic report as per the format outlined in chapter 5 of the textbook. The report must follow http://www.cqu.edu.au/?a=14032Harvard citation and referencing guidelines. Please note that the prescribed textbook uses APA referencing guidelines. See also the Referencing Style subsection below. The report is to be based on the following scenario: Cloud computing is a new information technology (IT) model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources such...