COIT 20246 ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION
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Due
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Thursday Week 11
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Part:
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Written Assessment
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Weighting:
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30% of total assessment.
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Submission:
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Electronic (see course website for details)
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Please fill in the following details:
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Student Name
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Student Number
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Tutor’s Name
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Instructions
It will
be necessary to use online resources to complete this assignment, please ensure
you cite and reference any such materials using the Harvard format.
DO NOT copy
content directly from either the text or Internet resources: this assignment is to be in your own
words. You will lose marks if you do not use your own words!
Please
complete your assignment using this submission template file,
inserting your responses where indicated.
DO NOT delete the marking criteria page – changes are permitted to the formatting of other pages
including the headers and footers.
Tasks
There
are ten (10) tasks, one for each week:
the tasks are detailed below.
There is a table to complete for each task. Please fill in the information required.
Note: Each resource summary should be around
200-300 words.
Each
summary should briefly explain:
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What the resource is about
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Why you selected it
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What are the main points or key information
covered in the resource
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Why the resource was useful.
For more advice about
how to complete the assignment, as well as examples and information about
selecting good resources, please see the assessment page on the Moodle unit web
site:
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Example
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The “Internet of things” is an
emerging trend towards smart interconnected embedded technologies that allow
us to monitor and control our environment.
Collect and summarise an online resource that describes ONE example or
application of the Internet of things.
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Title, Link and Reference:
Connected Medical Devices, Apps: Are They Leading the IoT
Revolution — or Vice Versa?
Lars, N 2014, ‘Connected Medical Devices, Apps: Are They
Leading the IoT Revolution — or Vice Versa?’, Wired, June 2014, viewed 1
February 2017,
https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/06/connected-medical-devices-apps-leading-iot-revolution-vice-versa/
Note: You
may use abbreviated URLs (to the website) in the reference, however you must
provide the FULL link above it that, when pasted into the Web Browser, will
take the marker directly to the resource. Using full URLs in the reference
(as in this example) is fine too.
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Summary:
Connected Medical Devices, Apps: Are They Leading the IoT
Revolution — or Vice Versa?
This article describes the emergence of the Internet of
Things (IoT) in the context of medical devices. I chose this article because it not only
examines the applications of a very useful class of IoT devices, but it also
highlights the need for ways of collecting and processing the data they
produce.
In the article, the author describes how many medical
monitoring devices are now capable of connecting to the Internet and are
becoming a normal part of patient care.
These devices allow remote monitoring of patient health wirelessly and
can collect data on a wide range of vital signs and indicators. Data can be collected from a range of
sensors reading everything from heart rate and blood pressure through to
blood sugar levels and temperature.
In addition to passive monitors, IoT medical devices
provide the ability to proactively prompt patients to do things, for example
to warn them of their blood pressure or to alert them that they need more
medication. The article points out
that many of these notifications are the result of apps (software)
interacting with both the devices and the patients.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the article is the
author’s discussion of what happens to the data that the IoT medical devices
produce. The author explains that many
devices can send data directly to the cloud for storage and analysis and that
this data constitutes a wealth of information that will potentially improve healthcare
in the future.
I found this article useful because it not only
highlighted the increasing ubiquity of Internet-connected medical devices,
but also made me think about how the data is collected, where it is stored
and how it could be used – both positively and negatively – in the future.
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Week 1
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The text discusses examples of
traditional mass storage such as magnetic disk and solid-state drives. While these still underpin most mass
storage, an emerging next-generation storage solution is Persistent Memory
(PMEM). Find and summarise ONE
resource that describes Persistent
Memory. The resource, and your
summary, must focus solely on Persistent Memory.
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Title, Link and Reference:
<Provide the Title of the resource, the Link (full URL)
and full Harvard reference here.>
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Summary:
<Provide a summary of around 200-300 words discussing
what the resource is about and why it is relevant to the task here>
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Week 2
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Computer BIOS (Basic Input Output
System) has been traditionally responsible for the booting process. However, it has largely been replaced by the Unified Extensible Firmware
Interface (UEFI).
Find and summarise ONE resource that describes UEFI. The resource, and your summary, must focus
on UEFI, however, you may mention how
it differs from BIOS.
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Title, Link and Reference:
<Provide the Title of the resource, the Link (full URL)
and full Harvard reference here.>
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Summary:
<Provide a summary of around 200-300 words discussing
what the resource is about and why it is relevant to the task here>
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Week 3
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5G is an emerging Internet delivery
technology. Find and summarise ONE
resource that describes 5G. The resource, and your summary, must focus
on 5G and the improvements it brings compared to other wired and wireless
technologies.
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Title, Link and Reference:
<Provide the Title of the resource, the Link (full URL)
and full Harvard reference here.>
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Summary:
<Provide a summary of around 200-300 words discussing
what the resource is about and why it is relevant to the task here>
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Week 4
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is set
to change the way in which the Internet is used. There are numerous protocols and standards
that underpin IoT. Find and summarise ONE resource that describes specific
network-related protocols/standards that IoT relies on. The resource, and
your summary, must focus purely on IoT protocols.
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Title, Link and Reference:
<Provide the Title of the resource, the Link (full URL)
and full Harvard reference here.>
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Summary:
<Provide a summary of around 200-300 words discussing
what the resource is about and why it is relevant to the task here>
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Week 5
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Universities are increasingly the
subject of cyber attacks. The
Australian National University (ANU) was subject to a serious hack in
2018. Find and summarise ONE resource that describes this
attack and how it occurred. The
resource, and your summary, should focus purely on the 2018 ANU incident.
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Title, Link and Reference:
<Provide the Title of the resource, the Link (full URL)
and full Harvard reference here.>
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Summary:
<Provide a summary of around 200-300 words discussing
what the resource is about and why it is relevant to the task here>
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Week 6
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On June 24, 2019, an Internet routing
issue affected Verizon and subsequently numerous cloud-based websites. Find and summarise ONE resource that describes what happened and how it
occurred. The resource, and your
summary, should describe the cause and impacts the June 24 incident ONLY. Note that you need to clearly explain, in
simple terms, what happened and why.
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Title, Link and Reference:
<Provide the Title of the resource, the Link (full URL)
and full Harvard reference here.>
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Summary:
<Provide a summary of around 200-300 words discussing
what the resource is about and why it is relevant to the task here>
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Week 7
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The last 20 years has seen the
emergence of a specialised ICT role in the form of Business Analysts. Find and summarise ONE resource that describe the role Business Analysts perform in
organisations. The resource, and your summary, should focus solely on
Business Analysts ONLY.
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Title, Link and Reference:
<Provide the Title of the resource, the Link (full URL)
and full Harvard reference here.>
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Summary:
<Provide a summary of around 200-300 words discussing
what the resource is about and why it is relevant to the task here>
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Week 8
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The
Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme came into effect in Australia from 22
February 2018. It applies to all organisations under the Australian
Privacy Act 1988 and outlines an obligation to notify individuals affected by
a data breach. In simple terms, a data
breach is where private information is illegally obtained or disclosed. Find and summarise
ONE resource that describes how
the NDB works. The resource, and
your summary, should focus purely on the
NDB.
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Title, Link and Reference:
<Provide the Title of the resource, the Link (full URL)
and full Harvard reference here.>
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Summary:
<Provide a summary of around 200-300 words discussing
what the resource is about and why it is relevant to the task here>
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Week 9
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The Healthcare.gov website
implementation is frequently cited as an example of a very expensive IT
project failure. Find and summarise ONE
resource that describes what happened in this project. The resource, and your
summary, should focus purely on the Healthcare.gov project and discuss the
main causes of the failure.
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Title, Link and Reference:
<Provide the Title of the resource, the Link (full URL)
and full Harvard reference here.>
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Summary:
<Provide a summary of around 200-300 words discussing
what the resource is about and why it is relevant to the task here>
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Week 10
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ICT is generally seen as delivering
benefits to society. However, many
argue that it has eroded our privacy, especially since the advent of the
Internet. Find and summarise ONE resource that discusses the
impacts of ICT on individual privacy (positive or negative). You can choose
to specifically focus on the impacts of the Internet on privacy, or you may
wish to find a resource that discusses the broader implications of ICT on
privacy. In either case, resource, and your summary, must link ICT/Internet
and privacy.
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Title, Link and Reference:
<Provide the Title of the resource, the Link (full URL)
and full Harvard reference here.>
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Summary:
<Provide a summary of around 200-300 words discussing
what the resource is about and why it is relevant to the task here>
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MARKING SHEET - DO NOT DELETE
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Criteria
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0
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No
Response
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<=1
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Poor
resource selection; resource is too broad or lacks relevance to the task;
summary fails to explain what the resource was about; the relevance and/or
usefulness of the resource has not been explained.
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<=2
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Good
resource selection; resource is relevant to the task; summary is adequate but
may require either more detail or is too long; the relevance and/or
usefulness of the resource has been explained to some extent, but needs
additional information.
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<=3
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Excellent
resource selection; resource is highly relevant to the task (the resource is
probably highly specialised); summary is detailed yet concise; the relevance
and usefulness of the resource selection has been clearly explained.
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Key
Deductions |
-3
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Reference/URL
provided does not link to resource (and resource cannot be located or
determined from details provided) OR
Reference/URL provided does not relate to the summary (i.e. summary is not of resource content/contains content not contained in the resource) OR Multiple resources used for a single task
Resource
is generic AND/OR covers multiple technologies/examples rather than focuses
on a single technology/example
Resource
not referenced correctly/not in Harvard format
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TOTAL
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Comments:
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