FACULTY OF ART, COMPUTING AND CREATIVE INDUSTRY MKA1013 : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CHAPTER 7 : STORAGE Student Name: Nurhazimah Bt Yahya

Student ID No.: E20121004201 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 : 06/09/2012 Submission Date : 07/09/2012 Duration : 1 day

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Students should be able to describe the definition of cloud storage and its advantages

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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 1. DESCRIPTION OF ASSESMENT MARKS

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 hosting by third parties. Hosting companies operate large data centres, and people who require their data to be hosted buy or lease storage capacity from them. /1

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FACULTY OF ART, COMPUTING AND CREATIVE INDUSTRY MKA1013 : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CHAPTER 7 : STORAGE 2.

List two (2) cloud storage advantages.

a) Storage maintenance tasks, such as backup, data replication, and purchasing additional storage devices are offloaded to the responsibility of a service provider allowing organizations to focus on their core business b) Cloud storage provides users with immediate access to a broad range of resources and applications hosted in the infrastructure of another organization via web service interface. /1 /1

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List five (5) cloud storage provider and provide complete URL address for their website. (Example:Yahoowww.yahoo.com)
a) Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/ /1 b) 4shared - http://www.4shared.com/ c) Adrive - http://www.adrive.com/ d) Facebook - http://www.facebook.com e) Scribd - http://www.scribd.com/ /1 /1

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Choose ONLY one cloud storage provider.

Website URL : http://www.scribd.com/ Shared file URL : http://www.scribd.com/upload-document#files /1

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FACULTY OF ART, COMPUTING AND CREATIVE INDUSTRY MKA1013 : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CHAPTER 7 : STORAGE 5.

Identify five (5) important steps for sharing file using cloud storage.
Steps: 1) Log in to Scribd 2) Click the publish button at top 3) Click the upload button to select the file that you need to share. /1 4) Choose the file and click open. It will automatically upload to your account. 5) Type the tittle for the file and click save. TOTAL FINAL MARKS (5%) : ( /1 /1 /1

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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 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. Pada masa kini, terdapat banyak penyedia perkhidmatan dalam talian yang menyediakan data simpanan percuma dalam talian untuk pelbagai jenis penyimpanan data seperti You Tube untuk video digital dan Flicker untuk foto digital. Bagi tugasan ini, anda perlu mencari penyimpanan data dalam talian percuma yang terbaik yang boleh menyokong mana-mana jenis fail dan pilih satu yang sesuai dengan keperluan anda sebagai pelajar universiti. Anda boleh membandingkan pembekal awan
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FACULTY OF ART, COMPUTING AND CREATIVE INDUSTRY MKA1013 : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CHAPTER 7 : STORAGE penyimpanan dengan membaca ulasan dan komen yang disediakan oleh pengguna sebelumnya. Kemudian, anda perlu mendaftar akaun, memuatnaik dokumen-dokumen tugasan dalam format doc dan kebenaran set untuk fungsi perkongsian. Menyerahkan tugasan ini melalui e-mel kepada pengajar makmal anda pautan fail tugasan perkongsian anda. JANGAN melampirkan fail mana-mana dalam emel anda.

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