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Unit of Study PROG2003 - Cloud Systems Development (2024)

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Unit description

Studies the technology of services provided by cloud providers with a view to select appropriate services and develop programs that use their programming Applications Programming Interfaces (API).  Allows students to analyse and contrast security, performance and privacy implications of service providers. 

Unit content

  1. Fundamentals of cloud concepts, models, and service providers

  2. Cloud technologies, APIs, and security issues

  3. Cloud mechanisms and databases

  4. Cloud architectures and serverless computing

  5. Specialised cloud architectures and interactive querying

  6. Cloud usage, quality and cost metrics

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
China - Guangxi UST N/A
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Gold Coast
Term2
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Melbourne N/A
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Online
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N/A
Perth N/A
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Sydney N/A
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Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

integrate cloud APIs and services to design and develop cloud applications

analyse cloud computing problems to compare and propose solutions

design and evaluate cloud computing systems

analyse and discuss security and privacy issues in cloud computing systems

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment

  • A list of online resources will be published at the start of each term.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.