FACULTY OF ART, COMPUTING AND CREATIVE INDUSTRY MKA1013 : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CHAPTER 7 : STORAGE Student Name: Muhammad Imran

B Mohd Zhuri Student ID No.:940129035213 Course Name: Information Technology Code Name: MKA 1013 Instructor: Cik Amalia Semester: Semester 1 2012/2013 Assessment No: 5 Assignment Title: Storage Assignment [X]/Lab ; [ ]/Quiz ; [ ]/Mid Term Issues Date : Submission Date : Duration : 1 week

Outcomes: 1. Students should be able to describe the definition of cloud storage and its advantages correctly. 2. Students should be able to apply the using of cloud computing through experience based learning by signing up an account with free online data storage website, upload a file and share it with others correctly. 3. Students should be able to identify steps for sharing file using cloud storage correctly.

Assessment Criteria: You need to submit this assignment by providing a sharing link that contain your assignment file. The submitted assignment will be evaluated based on the below assessment criteria. No Descriptions of assessment Marks

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Describe the definition of cloud storage. Cloud storage is a model of networked online storage where data is stored in virtualized pools of storage which are generally hosted by third parties. Hosting companies operate large data centers, and people who require their data to be hosted buy or lease storage capacity from them. The data center operators, in the background, virtualize the resources according to the

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FACULTY OF ART, COMPUTING AND CREATIVE INDUSTRY MKA1013 : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CHAPTER 7 : STORAGE requirements of the customer and expose them as storage pools, which the customers can themselves use to store files or data objects. Physically, the resource may span across multiple servers.

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List two (2) cloud storage advantages /1 a)Access file from any computer. /1 b)Store offsite backups.

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List three (5) cloud storage provider and provide complete URL address for their website. (Example: Yahoo www.yahoo.com) a) www.googledrive.com /1 /1

b) www.dropbox.com

c) www.skydrive.com

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d) www.adrive.com

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e) www.minus.com

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a) Choose ONLY one cloud storage provider. Website URL : http://www.scribd.com /1

d) Shared file URL : /1

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Identify five (5) important steps for sharing file using cloud storage. Steps: 1)Sign up account /1 /1

2)Upload an individual file

3)Choose file

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4)Click open

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5)Share file

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TOTAL FINAL MARKS (5%) : (

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Lab Assignment 5 (5%): Nowadays, there are a lot of online cloud service providers that provide free online data storage for various types of data storage such as You Tube for digital videos and Flicker for digital photos. For this assignment, you need to search for the best free online data storage that can back up any type of
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FACULTY OF ART, COMPUTING AND CREATIVE INDUSTRY MKA1013 : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CHAPTER 7 : STORAGE file and choose the one that suits your needs as university student. You can compare the cloud storage provider by read the reviews and comments provide by previous user. Then, you need to sign up an account, upload assignment document in .doc format and set permission for sharing function. Submit this assignment by email to your lab instructor a link of your sharing assignment file. DO NOT attach any file in your email.

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