Course Coordinator:Thanh Thi Nguyen (tnguyen5@usc.edu.au) School:School of Science, Technology and Engineering
UniSC Moreton Bay |
Blended learning | Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online. |
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teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
This course teaches you how to use cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and DevOps practices to enable organisations to be more agile and adaptive. DevOps involves Development and Operations collaborating to build, evolve and operate rapidly-changing systems at scale. You will learn DevOps principles and some key DevOps practices, such as agile planning, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous monitoring. You will gain experience at implementing automated continuous integration pipelines to build, test, analyse and deploy web-based applications.
| Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
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| Learning materials – Asynchronous Learning Material | 2hrs | Week 1 | 12 times |
| Tutorial/Workshop 1 – On-campus workshop | 2hrs | Week 1 | 12 times |
300 Level (Graduate)
12 units
| Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | |
| 1 | Demonstrate advanced knowledge of DevOps principles, methods, practices in terms of Industry application. | Knowledgeable |
| 2 | Select, develop and adapt cloud platforms to perform tasks, use tools and techniques to facilitate DevOps methodology. | Empowered |
| 3 | Analyse, evaluate and configure cloud infrastructure to set up automation environments. | Creative and critical thinker |
| 4 | Utilise cloud infrastructure for continuous deployment and integration of software. | Empowered |
| 5 | Deploy and manage the process of DevOps utilising a range of automation and project management tools. | Engaged |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
CSC200 and CSC202
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Standard Grading (GRD)
| High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
Students will complete individual weekly workshop activities under the guidance of the workshop facilitator, providing opportunities for rapid formative feedback throughout the trimester.
| Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | Weighting % | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
| All | 1 | Portfolio | Individual | 20% | 200 words per submission |
Refer to Format | Online Submission |
| All | 2 | Artefact - Technical and Scientific, and Written Piece | Individual | 40% | Code plus 1500 words |
Week 12 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| All | 3 | Examination - not Centrally Scheduled | Individual | 40% | 2.5 hours |
Exam Period | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
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| Goal: | Complete a number of activities submitted over the course of the trimester to reflect on your comprehension while forming a portfolio of devops solutions. |
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| Format: | You will submit five responses to stimulus materials. Each submission will be the equivalent of less than 200 words of text, code or documentation. Due Weeks 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 |
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| Goal: | Develop your ability to design, build, and deliver products using automation. |
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| Format: | You will work on a case study and apply your knowledge of DevOps to design, justify and develop solutions to meet the given requirements. |
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| Goal: | Assess your ability to independently apply your skills and knowledge to solve problem-based questions within a set time limit. |
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| Format: | This examination consists of a set of questions based on learning materials and workshop activities. |
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A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
You need regular access to the resource(s) below. Many texts are available as ebooks through the Library at no additional cost.
| Required? | Author | Year | Title | Edition | Publisher |
| Recommended | Len Bass,Ingo M. Weber,Liming Zhu | 2015 | DevOps: A Software Architect’s Perspective | n/a | n/a |
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Academic integrity is the ethical standard of university participation. It ensures that students graduate as a result of proving they are competent in their discipline. This is integral in maintaining the value of academic qualifications. Each industry has expectations and standards of the skills and knowledge within that discipline and these are reflected in assessment.
Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.
In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.
Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment
Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying:
(a) The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4%; and
(b) The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale
Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying: The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4% The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale You have not failed an assessment task in the course due to academic misconduct
Late submissions may be penalised up to and including the following maximum percentage of the assessment task’s identified value, with weekdays and weekends included in the calculation of days late:
(a) One day: deduct 5%;
(b) Two days: deduct 10%;
(c) Three days: deduct 20%;
(d) Four days: deduct 40%;
(e) Five days: deduct 60%;
(f) Six days: deduct 80%;
(g) Seven days: A result of zero is awarded for the assessment task.
The following penalties will apply for a late submission for an online examination:
Less than 15 minutes: No penalty
From 15 minutes to 30 minutes: 20% penalty
More than 30 minutes: 100% penalty
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