Primary Research

Primary research plays a vital role in any project which means it is an important part of a project. Primary research has 8 different types, Basic research, Applied research and more. For our project we need to do primary research to learn and understand what the the topic is and what information can we add from the internet to our project with the rules and ethics in mind.

Furthermore, I will be doing my primary research with the help of a google form survey that we have designed and we asked 10 questions to my classmates to gather their responses.

Our Google Form Link: Google Form

We started in a group and opened a new blank Google form. Firstly we added a photo of a person with some technological elements to make it look more professional, Also we added the title in BOLD to add a bit more emphasis and used sans-serif font. Secondly we just added a small description mentioning the reason and prupose of our form. Moreover, we asked some Multiple Choice Questions about the topic from our research and understanding. The questions were simple to avoid complexity. We gave our surveyors interesting questions with more than a couple of options to choose from so that its easy for them and for us as well.

Here you can see some multiple choice questions taken from our google form these questions were basic and we asked these questions because we thought they were easy to answer. All the researched information for our google form was fetched from different websites which gave us a breif overview of the topic. After learning about cloud computing, we asked questions like what are the full form of the specific terms like 'SaaS' and what do you know about cloud computing. We provided simple answers to choose from.

At the end of our form we asked our surveyors about their opinion on wheather they are comfortable with storing their data online on cloud based systems. We asked about this question because In this digital era we have many security and privacy issues as there might be cyber attacks and your data can be compromised and your confidential data may get public.

Below are a couple of responses that we got on our google form regarding the questions we asked:

The first chart shows the data of how many people are concerned about their data security stored on cloud systems and you can see majority of people have strong concern regarding their data stored which is about 44.4% of the total. 33.3% people are somewhat concerned while 22.2% people do not care at all.

The second pie chart shows how many people chose what they thought cloud computing was as per the options we provided and we can clearly see that 70% of surveyors chose the third option which is represented with yellow color and 30% chose the first option represented with blue color and none of our surveyors chose the second option which is shown in red.

Atlast, I would like to show you some of the responses we got on a question we asked which was that what are your thoughts on what are the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing are.

These are the responses of different individuals.

Reference List

          Andrew, L. (2023) What is cloud computing?  |  google cloud, Google. Available at: https://cloud.google.com/learn/what-is-cloud-computing (Accessed: 03 December 2023).

          What is cloud computing? (2022) IBM. Available at: https://www.ibm.com/topics/cloud-computing (Accessed: 03 December 2023).

           Polski, M. (2023) What is cloud computing? - aws.amazon.com, AWS. Available at: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-cloud-computing/ (Accessed: 03 December 2023).