SCENARIO

You are the IT administrator for SparkIT-Game Company, a successful video game producer. The company is preparing to launch a new version of an existing game. You have been tasked with rolling out a new cloud-based automation system that will handle expected loading during critical press events and monitor for continuing use of the cloud-based back-end system for the game. The core requirement is to keep game play smooth and available throughout a year of anticipated ups and downs of user demand due to marketing events, word-of-mouth advertising, and positive press across all platforms. When designing the solution, ensure all other requirements are considered and can be implemented.

REQUIREMENTS

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of a submission can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The originality report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

Section 1: Solution Design and Implementation

A. Introduce your proposed solution, including an overview of the purpose, goals and objectives, and scope of the solution. Provide a brief description of how the solution functions.

B. Create a visual representation of your solution (e.g., storyboard, flowchart, UML diagram, GUI) that illustrates how the system process or workflow aligns with and supports the business requirements for SparkIT-Game Company. Include the executable tasks and decision points in your representation.

C. Write an executable automation script that aligns with the visual representation in part B.

Note: All coding must be written and executed within the Chef platform. You may modify an existing Chef cookbook to create this script. You must design, write, implement, and debug all code that you turn in for this assessment. Code downloaded from the internet, other than Chef cookbooks, or acquired from another student or any other source may not be submitted and will result in automatic failure of this assessment.

Section 2: Optimization

D. Capture the performance measurements of your solution from part C and the code(s) you used to gather the data in the diagnostic report.

E. Provide the web sources you modified to create both the automation script and the scripts used to gather the performance measurements.

F. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

G. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.