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Report and Video Presentation
Assignment Specification
Overview
Banks and other financial institutions rely on speed, capacity, intelligence, security, and
accountability for success. Since its introduction 50 years ago, the mainframe has played a
vital role in the financial
anking industry. For example, a mainframe computer is capable of
handling more than 2.5 billion financial transactions per day. That's one reason mainframes
emain a core component of banking data practices. Cloud computing also plays a significant
ole in a bank’s efforts to reinvent its business and operating models. For example, banks use
cloud services for analytics where a probabilistic score is calculated real-time to each financial
transaction for its likelihood to being fraudulent.
For this assignment, you will apply the skills and knowledge covered in the first nine (9) weeks
of the course with the purpose to investigate why and how enterprises from the Banking sector
use mainframe and cloud technologies to support their day-to-day operations.
This is an individual assignment. Your investigation will be focused on usage of mainframe
and cloud technologies by a Banking enterprise (a bank or number of banks). The investigation
should be supported by trusted on-line resources and based on real life case studies, reports,
on-line newspapers, videos and academic resources available from the Internet. The findings
should be written in a report document of approximately XXXXXXXXXXwords and the report
should be summarised in a video recording of 3 to 5 minutes in duration in which you will
personally presents an overview of the findings.
Timelines and Expectations
Percentage Value of Task: 25%
Due: Week 10 on Thursday Time: 16:00
Minimum time expectation: 45 hours
Investigations - 25 hours.
Writing the assignment report document - 15 hours.
Planning, creation
ecording and editing of video presentation - 5 hours.
Learning Outcomes Assessed
The following course learning outcomes are assessed by completing this assessment:
K1. Identify the key elements in cloud and mainframe computing;
K2. Explain the importance of cloud and mainframes in contemporary business
models;
K3. Adapt the need of security and privacy in cloud and mainframes;
K4. Reproduce various services provided by cloud and mainframes;
S2. Describe mainframe workloads for business needs;
S4. Interpret security and privacy needs in shared environment.
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Assessment Details
The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with the opportunity to investigate why and
how enterprises from the Banking sector use mainframe and cloud technologies to
support their day-to-day operations. You are required to investigate usage of mainframe and
cloud technologies by an enterprise (a bank or number of banks) from the Banking sector.
Your investigation should be supported by trusted Internet resources containing real life case
studies, reports, on-line newspapers, videos, technical
esearch papers and academic
journals. As a starting point it is advised to use FedUni on-line li
ary eResources via
“QuickSearch” and “Databases”.
In light of the investigation your findings should address the following requirements:
1. Describe (at least THREE) core business services offered by a bank;
2. Provide a
ief description of security and privacy needs in relation to the bank’s core
usiness services;
3. Explain the bank’s needs for ICT workload types (batch, transactional and analytics);
4. Describe how banks benefit of using cloud technologies;
5. Explain which cloud services are used in the banking sector and how they support
one or more ICT workload types;
6. Describe why major banks and financial institutions have mainframes at the centre of
their technological strategies;
7. Explain how mainframes support one or more ICT workload types;
8. Provide at least five (5) references
esources used in your investigation (APA
eference style) and a link to your YouTube video presentation
Report Document Format
The findings should be written in a report document of approximately XXXXXXXXXXwords
equivalent to three (3) to four (4) pages (without the cover page and list of references). The
eport should contain a cover page with course code, course name, assignment title, your
student ID, your full name and the number of words (without the cover and reference pages).
The report text format must be single spaced with font size Arial, 12 and larger font size for
the headings.
The report text should be divided into the following five (5) headings (sections):
1. Core business services offered by a bank (at least half a page)
a. A short description of at least three (3) core business services offered by a
ank (requirement 1.)
. A
ief description of security and privacy needs in relation to the bank’s core
usiness services (requirement 2.)
2. Bank’s needs for ICT workload types (at least half a page)
a. Explain with two (2) examples of how banks use ICT batch workload type
(requirement 3.a)
. Explain with two (2) examples of how banks use ICT transactional workload
type (requirement 3.b)
c. Explain with two (2) examples of how banks use ICT analytics workload type
(requirement 3.c)
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3. Benefits of using cloud technologies in banking sector (at least one page)
a. Briefly describe how banks benefit of using cloud technologies (requirement
4.)
. Your description should link one or more cloud services to one or more ICT
workload types used in banking (requirement 5.)
4. Why major banks use mainframes (at least one page)
a. Briefly describe why banks use mainframes (requirement 6.)
. Your description should link one or more mainframe technologies/services to
one or more ICT workload types used in banking (requirement 7.)
5. References
a. Provide at least five (5) references
esources used in your investigation
. Your references of trusted Internet sources should be listed by using APA
eference style
c. A link to your YouTube video presentation
Video Presentation Format
Once you have completed your report, you are required to create a video recording of three
(3) to five (5) minutes duration in which you personally present a summary of your findings
as per your report.
Important: Your presentation is the final product in which you talk about the assessment topic
and your findings as presented in your report document. However, in your presentation you
do not talk about your report, but summarise content of the report as per assessment
equirements.
Using a mobile phone or similar quality camera is perfectly acceptable and will help keep the
size of the presentation file small. You must be actively presenting throughout the video, with
your face clearly visible and identifiable for the duration of the presentation. It is acceptable to
iefly move away from your face to show a more clear representation of supporting materials
from your documentation, but you must otherwise ensure that you are visible and presenting
throughout the video.
In three (3) to five (5) minutes of video duration you have to describe the following:
1. At least three (3) core business services offered by a bank including security and
privacy issues
2. Bank’s needs for batch, transactional and analytical ICT workload types
3. How banks benefit of using cloud technologies linking one or more cloud services to
one or more ICT workload types
4. Why major banks use mainframe technologies linking one or more mainframe services
to one or more ICT workload types
Submission of the Assessment
Report Document Submission
Your assignment report document to be submitted as a PDF file to Moodle in the drop box
provided by the due date and time. The report should contain a link to your YouTube video
presentation. The PDF file name should contain at least your student ID and your full name
(e.g. 3001111_Jane_Doe.pdf)
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Video Submission
Your completed video must be uploaded to YouTube as an unlisted file so that it is only
accessible to anyone who is given a link to the file. This link must be included in the report
document you have created for the assignment. This is so your video is accessible to the
marker; if the video is not accessible, then it will not be marked. Please be aware that
uploading videos to YouTube may take longer than you expect, and it is your responsibility to
allow enough time for the video presentation to upload, for the link to the unlisted presentation
to be included within your documentation, and for you to then upload the documentation to
Moodle by the deadline. Make sure you allow yourself sufficient time for this to occur. Please
do NOT upload your videos directly to Moodle. Any videos provided directly in Moodle will not
e marked.
Submission Feedback:
Marks for your report and video presentation will be available in fdlMarks. Marks and
feedback to individual students via be available via Moodle.
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Report and Video Presentation
Assignment Marking Criteria
Requirements for marking to proceed:
a. Video is uploaded to YouTube as an unlisted file
. Student’s assignment report is submitted to Moodle as a PDF file, and includes a link to the
video
c. Student is actively presenting throughout the video, with only
ief absences for displaying
supporting materials Note: Any video that exceeds 5 minutes duration will be marked based
on the first 5 minutes only
Assessment Criteria
Report Format (up to -10 marks deducted) Acceptable Not Acceptable
1. submitted as a PDF file
2. file name contains student ID and full name
3. between XXXXXXXXXXwords
4. single spaced text
5. test font size Arial, 12