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School of Computing Technologies
COSC2626/2640 Cloud Computing
Assessment 1
Assessment Type: Individual assignment; no group work. Submit online via
Canvas→Assignments→Assessment 1. Marks awarded for meeting requirements as closely as possible.
Clarifications/updates may be made via announcements/relevant discussion forums.
Due date: 11:59pm, Friday 09/Apr/2021 Please check Canvas→Assignments→Assessment 1 for the
most up to date information.
As this is a major assignment in which you demonstrate your understanding, a university standard late
penalty of 10% per each working day applies for up to 5 working days late, unless special consideration
has been granted.
Weighting: 30 marks
1. Overview
This assignment consists of 3 tasks:

• Task 1: Develop a cloud based application using Google App Engine
• Task 2: Develop a Google BigQuery based application
• Task 3: Draft a proposal for Assessment 3 (specification to be released in early Week 5)
2. Assessment Criteria
This assessment will develop your ability to:
• Develop cloud based applications using Google App Engine
• Develop Google BigQuery based applications
3. Learning Outcomes
This assessment is relevant to the following Learning Outcomes:
• Develop and deploy cloud application using popular cloud platforms
• Design and develop highly scalable cloud-based applications by creating and configuring virtual
machines on the cloud and building private cloud.
4. Assessment details
Task-1 [23 marks]
Create a simple online forum application with Google Datastore/Firebase and Google Cloud
Storage, and deploy it to Google App Engine using your learned knowledge in Tute 2 and Tute 3.
This application will have following components and functions:
1. Create 10 entities in Google Datastore/Firebase (Namespace: default, Kind: user, Key: default),
which contain the following properties and values. 1 mark


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id (Type: String) user_name (Type:
String)
password (Type:
String)
s3######0
i.e. your RMIT student id+’0’
Firstname Lastname0
i.e. your name+’0’
012345

s3######1
i.e. your RMIT student id+’1’
Firstname Lastname1
i.e. your name+’1’
123456
… … …
s3######9
i.e. your RMIT student id+’9’
Firstname Lastname9
i.e. your name+’9’
901234

2. Store 10 images into Google Cloud Storage. Each image shows a unique single digit (from 0 to 9).
These images will be used as default user images.
Note: A sample digit image source is https://www.123rf.com/photo_41936678_neon-digit-nine-
from-neon-alphabet-collection-isolated-on-black.html. Feel free to use your own collected digit
images.
3. login page 2 marks
The login page contains a “ID” text field, a “Password” field, and a “Login” button as well as a
“Register” link. When user clicks the “Login” button, it will validate if the user entered credentials
match with the information stored in the datastore/firebase.

3.1. If the user credential is invalid, the login page will display “ID or password is invalid”. 1 mark
3.2. If the user credential is valid, it will be redirected to the forum page. 1 mark
4. register page 5 marks
The register page contains an “ID” text field, a “Username” and a “Password” field, a “User Image”
uploading field and a “Register” button. When user clicks the “Register” button, it will validate if the
user entered id and username match with the information stored in the Google Datastore/Firebase.

4.1. If the entered id matches with the id stored in the Google Datastore/Firebase, the register
page will show “The ID already exists”. 1 mark
4.2. If the entered username matches with the user_name stored in the Google
Datastore/Firebase, the register page will show “The username already exists”. 1 mark
4.3. If both the entered id and username are unique,
4.3.1. the new user information will be stored in the Google Datastore/Firebase, 1 mark
4.3.2. the uploaded user image will be stored in Google Cloud Storage, and 1 mark
4.3.3. the user will be redirected to the login page, where user can login with the new user_id
and password. 1 mark
5. forum page 8 marks
The forum page contains three main areas: a user area, a message posting area and a message
display area and a “Logout” link.

5.1. After a user logins, the user area will show
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5.1.1. the login user_name (which is a hyperlink - if user clicks the user_name link, it will be
redirected to the user page), and 1 mark
5.1.2. the login user image 1 mark.
For example, the area should show “your name+’1’” and image ”1” after the user with ID
“s3######1” logins.
Note: Make sure the displayed user image size is no greater than 120 pixel x 120 pixel.
5.2. The message posting area contains a “Subject” field (nonempty), a “Message Text” field, an
“Image” uploading field, and a “Submit” button.
5.2.1. Once the user clicks the “Submit” button, the subject, the message text and the
uploaded image will be displayed in the message display area, 1 mark
5.2.2. the subject and the message text will be stored in Google Datastore/Firebase, and 1
mark
5.2.3. the image will be stored in Google Cloud Storage. 1 mark
5.3. The message display area should show 10 latest posted messages (including subjects,
message texts and images), their posting date and time, corresponding user_names and user
images. 2 marks
5.4. If a user clicks the “Logout” link, the user will be redirected to the login page. 1 mark
6. user page 7 marks
The user page should contain a password edit area and a user posts edit area.

6.1. The password edit area contains an old password field, a new password field and a “Change”
button, where user needs to enter both the old password and a new password.
6.1.1. If user clicks the “Change” button, it will validate whether the entered old password
matches with the information stored datastore. If the old password is incorrect, it will
display “The old password is incorrect”. 1 mark
6.1.2. If the old password is correct, it will update the user password stored in the Google
Datastore/Firebase and be redirected to the login page, where user can login with the
new password. 1 mark
6.2. The user post edit area
6.2.1. displays all the message information (message subject and posting date and time)
posted by the login user. Each message is followed by an “Edit” button. 1 mark
6.2.2. Once the user clicks the “Edit” button of a posted message, it will display text fields
prefilled with the detailed post information (message subject and message text) and
previously uploaded image that allow the user to edit the post, followed by an “Update”
button. 1 mark
6.2.3. Once the user enters the new post information into the edit area and clicks the
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6.2.3.1. the user will be redirected to the forum page, where the updated post will be
displayed in on top of the message display area with the new posting date and
time, 1 mark
6.2.3.2. the subject and the message text stored in the Google Datastore/Firebase will be
updated, and 1 mark
6.2.3.3. the image stored in the Google Cloud Storage will be updated. 1 mark
Important Notes:
1. The whole application must be COMPLETELY programmed by yourself. You CANNOT use any
external source code.
2. The whole application must be FULLY deployed in Google App Engine, otherwise NO MARK
will be given for Task 1-3 to Task 1-6.

Task-2 [6 marks]
This task is based on Google BigQuery that we covered in Tute 3.

1) Use the a1_2 dataset (three csv files: gsquarterlySeptember20, services_classification,
country_classification) to write some queries to retrieve the following information.
2) Use BigQuery API Client Libraries to create an application based on your queries. (Note: This is
a compulsory requirement otherwise Task-2 WON’T be marked).
3) Deploy your application in your Google App Engine so that the query results can be displayed
on the webpage once you type in your Google App Engine URL (Note: This is a compulsory
requirement otherwise Task-2 WON’T be marked).
(Each correctly displayed query result is worth 2 marks)
1. Show top 10 time slots (year and month) with the highest trade value (i.e. import value + export
value). 2 marks
Note: Show “time_ref” and “trade value” in your results.

2. Show top 50 countries with the highest total trade deficit value (i.e. import value - export value) of
goods from 2014 to 2016 where status is “F”. 2 marks
Note: Show “country_label” (full country name), “product_type”, “trade deficit value” (in a
descending order), and “status” in your result.

3. Show top 30 services with the highest total trade surplus value (i.e. export value - import value) in the
top 10 time slots of Query Result 1 and the top 50 countries of Query Result 2. 2 marks
Note: Show “service_label” (full service name) and “trade surplus value” (in a descending order) in your
result.

Task-3 [1 mark]
Write at least 100 words to describe the preliminary plan of your Assessment 3 (to be released in early Week
5), including the motivation, the objective, the possible system components, the proposed functions and the
possibly adopted AWS services and/or external APIs for each component.
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Note:
1) References should be included when needed (excluded in the word count);
2) This task is only designed to encourage you to start preparing your Assessment 3 early. We won’t assess
the quality of Task-3 content. You may discuss the details of your preliminary plan with your tutor in weekly
workshops.

5. Referencing guidelines
What: This is an individual assignment, and all submitted contents must be your OWN. If you have used
sources of information other than the contents directly under Canvas→Modules, you must give acknowledge
the sources and give references using IEEE referencing style.
Where: Add a code comment near the work to be referenced and include the reference in the IEEE style.
How: To generate a valid IEEE style reference, please use the citethisforme tool if unfamiliar with this style.
Add the detailed reference before any relevant code (within code comments).
6. Submission format
Create a .txt file and name it [your_student_number].txt (e.g. s3369312.txt). This .txt file will contain items
in following order

1. Your Name and student number
2. Code of Task 1 (app.yaml, py/html/php files)
3. Code of Task 2 (app.yaml, py/html/php files)
4. Texts of Task 3

Submit it into Canvas→Assignments→Assessment 1 before the deadline. You will be marked during
your demo time. This submission is only for keeping the records. However, your assessment will NOT
be allowed to be demonstrated in Canvas until you submit your file.
7. Demonstration
You must demonstrate your project online to an available tutor (unnecessarily your tutor) by making an
appointment with the tutor in Week 6. The demo booking will be made available to students in Week 5. All
demonstrations must be completed by Week 6. There will be penalty if you fail to complete and
demonstrate your work by Week 6. The demo is around 15 minutes for each student. Keep everything
ready and make your application live (on 2 Google Cloud projects) during your demo.
Note: Each student can only attend one demonstration for Assessment 1. DON’T overbook otherwise you
will receive penalty. If you are not satisfied with your mark, you may attend the online remarking session
organized by the course coordinator after Week 6 (remarking time and booking will be made available to
students through announcements).
8. Academic integrity and plagiarism (standard warning)
Academic integrity is about honest presentation of your academic work. It means acknowledging the work
of others while developing your own insights, knowledge and ideas. You should take extreme care that you
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• Acknowledged words, data, diagrams, models, frameworks and/or ideas of others you have quoted
(i.e. directly copied), summarised, paraphrased, discussed or mentioned in your assessment
through the appropriate referencing methods,
• Provided a reference list of the publication details so your reader can locate the source if necessary.
This includes material taken from Internet sites.
If you do not acknowledge the sources of your material, you may be accused of plagiarism because you have
passed off the work and ideas of another person without appropriate referencing, as if they were your own.
RMIT University treats plagiarism as a very serious offence constituting misconduct. Plagiarism covers a
variety of inappropriate behaviours, including:
• Failure to properly document a source
• Copyright material from the internet or databases
• Collusion between students
For further information on our policies and procedures, please refer to the University website.
9. Assessment declaration
When you submit work electronically, you agree to the assessment declaration.







































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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