Cloud Computing Written Exam: Financial Organization Case Study

This assignment presents a comprehensive solution to a cloud computing exam centered on a financial organization with 6000 employees and 20 million customers, operating two data centers with heterogeneous infrastructure. The organization faces challenges in rapid application deployment, low resource utilization, and the need for scalability and cost-effectiveness. The solution outlines the company profile, identifies key organizational challenges such as cost, scalability, security, and accessibility, and proposes deliverables including a scalable storage solution and cloud computing implementation. The solution then details the Cloud Reference Model, defining the entities and functions of each layer, and maps the proposed deliverables to the model's layers, describing the physical, virtual, control, service orchestration, and service layers. The assignment demonstrates an understanding of cloud computing principles and the practical application of cloud solutions to address real-world business needs, emphasizing the benefits of cloud adoption for improved efficiency, cost savings, and enhanced service delivery.

Course No/s: ICT50415
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Unit Name/Number:
1. ICTICT511 Match IT needs with the strategic direction of the enterprise
2. ICTICT509 Gather data to identify business requirements
3. ICTICT514 Identify and manage the implementation of current industry-specific technologies
Assessment Tool Code: Assessment Event 1 - Written Assessment
Method:
Assessment Name: Cloud Computing Written Exam Assessment Event: 1 of 1
Date Given: TBA Date Due:Teaching Week 5 Weighting: 100%
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assessment
Task: Results:
Duration: To achieve competence (S/U) in the Cloud
Computing project area units all assessment
events must be graded as satisfactory.
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Conditions: Student Name: azeem mohammed
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Written Exam focused on Cloud Solutions Infrastructure
3 Hours
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Feedback Sheet
Unit Number/Name:
1. ICTICT511 Match IT needs with the strategic direction of the enterprise
2. ICTICT509 Gather data to identify business requirements
3. ICTICT514 Identify and manage the implementation of current industry-specific technologies
Assessment Event:1 of 2
Results/comments:
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Marking Guide:This event forms part of the competency based assessment for this project area. It
isgraded as “Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory”. To achieve competence (AC)in the virtualisation 1 project
area units all assessment events must be graded as satisfactory.
 Review current computing resources and use, and document in a manner consistent with
organisational requirements
 Identify and discuss future computing needs and potential improvements to business
operations with staff or team members
 Research the fundamentals of cloud computing, the types of services offered, and their
costs
 Undertake basic cost-benefit analysis for introducing cloud computing
 Analyse the current strategic plan of the organisation to understand the industry
environment and current organisational goals
 Compare information related to current operational practices and the strategic plan to
determine possible IT gaps and improvement opportunities
 Compare and document advantages and disadvantages of current and proposed IT
systems
 Identify potential opportunities and risks associated with introducing cloud computing
to the organisation
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ADDTIONAL CANDIDATE INSTRUCTIONS
This assessment counts 100% towards your final grade. During your Written Exam,
you are required demonstrate your ability to address the tasks.
This event forms part of the competency based assessment for this project area. It is
graded as “Satisfactory (S) or Unsatisfactory (U)”. All steps per task must be
completed to achieve a grade of Satisfactory in this event.
You may utilise the information in your Presentation Resource kit.
Late submission
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Task: Cloud Computing (estimated time to complete this task 2hour)
A financial organization has 6000 employees and provides services to
more than 20 million customers. To deliver IT services to its business
units, the organization operates two data centres at two different
geographic locations. The data centres run their business applications on
more than 300 physical compute systems. The infrastructure components
(compute systems, network devices, and storage devices) are
heterogeneous in nature. Some of the applications are proprietary
(developed in-house by the organization) and some of them are off-the-
shelf.
Over the past 10 years, the organization has made several strategic
investments to build its market share. However, the organization is now
facing a challenge to cope with the fast changing demands of the
customers about services provided by the organization. These demands
are forcing the organization to develop and deploy several new
applications and make the services available to the customers rapidly.
With the current infrastructure, rapid deployment of application is very
difficult. The utilization of the compute systems, network, and storage is
less than 20 percent of the available capacity. Also, deploying a new
application takes a long time because it involves purchasing new compute
systems, installing software, configuring network and storage, and
configuring security.
The organization wants to transform their existing data centre to cloud
infrastructure to leverage the benefits of cloud. They would like to build
the cloud infrastructure by repurposing their existing infrastructure. After
deploying new services to the consumers, the organization is expecting
cloud burst to occur from time to time. They do not want to invest money
on the infrastructure to provision resources and to meet the requirements
of the occasional increase in the peak workload.
The organization plans to develop several new applications to offer new
services to their customers. The proprietary application provides the
organization a competitive advantage and they therefore want to set up
an environment for it on their infrastructure. They also require the
environment to enable development, testing, and deployment of scalable
applications in an agile manner. They also want to set up an environment
to deploy the proprietary and off-the-shelf applications.
As the existing infrastructure is heterogeneous in nature, the organization
requires the ability to automate the provisioning and configuration tasks
based on defined policies. The organization requires the ability to
dynamically, uniformly, and easily modify and manage their
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infrastructure. Also, the organization requires the ability to discover the
available underlying resources and provides an aggregated view of the
resources.
Task 1.1– Outline the Company Profile
ABC Company Ltd.
Australia.
This is a financial management organization, which provides IT services to
other business units.
Total Employees: 6000
Approximate Customers: 20 million
Number of Branches: 2
Basic business line: Business Consultant.
Management:
o Chief Executive.
o Vice president of product development.
o Marketing officer.
o Human Resource Manager.
o Plan Executive.
Business Profile:
The mentioned company fundamentally works with the existing business
units in order to analyze their current business situation by which it will
help the organization to improve their business services for more than 10
years. The organization holds two different geographical places from
where they performs their organizational operations. The organization
consists more than 6000 employs as well as which holds the capability to
effectively attend near about 20 million customers.
S/U
Task 1.2– Outline the main organizational
challenges
After analyzing the organizational structure of the mentioned organization
several significant challenges has been noticed which has effectively
influenced the efficiency of the organizational services. Those challenges
are listed below:
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National Code: ICT50415 Cost- Since, the organization has two geographically different
operational offices it is very difficult to collaborate the data of those
two branches. Thus, it is effects the organizational cost. Scalability- Apart from the above aspect it has been also noticed
that in the traditional organizational processes almost 75% of
resources are remain unused. Security- Due to conventional organizational procedures it also
holds significant security issues with the data as well as the
services. Accessibility- Since, the data centers of the organization is
geographically separated from each other it is very difficult to
collaborate the organizational data, which has caused less
accessibility of those information.
S/U
Task 1.3– List the deliverables for organization
A thorough investigation on the approached organizational services the
identified deliverables are listed below: According to the demand of the authorities it has been observed
determined that the approached organizational infrastructure will
adopt a scalable storage which may maximize the utilization of the
organizational resources. Along with that the incorporation of cloud computing will be highly
cost effective. Since, the new business structure will incorporate the cloud
infrastructure the entire data of the organization will be available
on the single network by which the data will be easily accessible to
both the offices. Along with that the new infrastructure will provide high security to
the data as well as it will enable the organization to analyze those
data by which it will be very helpful to the organization to provide
more customize services to the customers.
S/U
000
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Task 1.4– Draw the Cloud Reference Model below:
VANETs IT Services
Smart Phone, Social
Networks
IP, Organizational DataCenter and
oth er gateways
Investment and Market
Share
Admin Interface
Data Collection Information and data dispatch
Intelligent Layer
Modelling, Analysis and Optimisation
Cloud Infrastructure as a service
System Interface
<< Above diagram is not the ‘Cloud Reference Model’. The cloud
reference Model has fixed names, shows the layers and the entities
they contain. See the below >>
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Task 1.5– What are the entities and functions of the Cloud
Reference Model above?
Layer
Approach
Functions
Physical
layer
This layer works with the computer systems, storage
devices as well as with the operating environments.
Along with that protocol and tools are also
performed in this layer. It generates the requests by
the control layer and with the virtual layer.
Virtual
layer
It pools the resources, virtual software and the
virtual resources. It executes the requests generated
by the control layer.
Control
layer
It is implemented on the virtual layers as or on the
physical layer.
Service
Orchestrat
ion Layer
It executes the automated tasks as well as interacts
with different entities.
Service
layer
It works with the information as well as enables the
organization to access and manage the services.
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Task 1.6 – From the deliverables proposed in task 1.3 list the required reference model solution
Layer Approach Description
e.g. Virtual Layer Enables improving of resources …
1. Physical
LayerSystem
Interface
Consist network, Stores data as well as computing performance is also depends
on this layer.It stores the data.
2. Virtual Intelligent
layer
It analyses the data as well as modules the data, virtual resource utilization.
3. Infrastructure as
a service Control
Layer
It works by utilizing the computing resources as well as the hardware resources.
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4. Service
Orchestration
Layer
Holds orchestration of software.
5. Service Layer Consist service catalog as well as the display portal.
<< You are on the right track but you need to use the Cloud Reference Model with the Layers named per
that model . An example provided below for guidance:>>
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Layer Approach Description
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1. Physical
- Based on biz forecasts and IT solutions design estimate compute, storage and network requirements in the private and
public clouds.
- Repurpose existing underutilized compute, network and storage by building a private cloud
- Implement Hybrid Cloud by contracting a selected cloud provider to be used for cloud-bursting, web services and
applications development and testing
- Build high capacity, redundant and secure connectivity between the two existing data centres and the cloud provider
2. Virtual
- Adoption of virtualization software for the on-prem Private Cloud
- Planning and creation of resource pools and virtual resources
- Required tools
3. Service-> Orchestration ->
Control
- Configuration of the required number of VMs
- Configuration of Network
- Configuration of Storage
- Configuration of Elasticity thresholds for auto-scaling
- Required tools
4. Service Management - Access to Self-service Portal
- Access to Cloud Management Software for management of resources
- Discover availability of underlying resources
- Track Capacity and Performance
- Required tools
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