Case Study 2 -  IT Infrastructure and Networking

 IT Infrastructure and Networking

Assessment 3: Case Study-2

Due date: Week 12 Group/individual: Individual Word count / Time provided: 2000 words Weighting: 30% Unit Learning Outcomes: ULO-2, ULO-3, ULO-4, ULO-5

Assessment Details:

This assessment is designed to assess students’ technical skills in planning and configuring a computer network. In addition, it develops student skills in planning and finding IT infrastructures solution that suit enterprise requirements.

AIT is a global IT company which mainly based in USA. Recently, the company has decided to move to the Australian market. AIT has decided to establish two main branches in two of the major Australian cities (Sydney, Perth).

Perth branch will have up to 600 employees. Sydney branch will have up to 1400 employees.

Each branch has it is own server. It is understood that employees should be able to communicate and access data from different servers within the three sites.

You have been hired as an IT Administrator at the IT department and you have been asked to analyse, design, and configure the new network as it shows in Figure 1.

• Use Network Address: 10.XX.0.0/18 For Sydney • Use Network Address: 172.XX.0.0/16 For Perth

Where XX is the last 2 digits of your student ID [For example, if the student ID is 201701234 then use : 10.34.0.0/20]

You can use the Lectures notes or VLSM to subnet the networks

Figure 1: Network design for AIT company

For the network diagram in Figure 1:

Task Specifications Task-A: Prepare a report to provide the details configuration for the network for AIT company.

In this task you will fill the required information using the IP network diagram: (30 Marks)

Sydney

Allocated Subnet address and Subnet Mask

Network address

Default Gateway address

Valid host address range

Broadcast address

Perth

Allocated Subnet address and Subnet Mask

Network address

Default Gateway address

Valid host address range

Broadcast address

Network between Sydney to ISP

Allocated Subnet address and Subnet Mask

Network address

Valid host address range

Broadcast address

Network between Perth and ISP

Allocated Subnet address and Subnet Mask

Network address

Valid host address range

Broadcast address

Place configuration of each device into a table like the one below. (40 Marks)

Sydney

(Copy and paste the device configuration, DO NOT use screenshot from Packet Tracer) S1: enable S1: configure terminal S1: . . .

- Connection’s verifications (ping) will scale to 5 marks.

Task-B: (25 marks) Assume the IT department of the AIT company wants to adapted virtualization and Cloud computed for hosting some of the organization application servers however, managers are divided between using Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. You are required to write a short, but comprehensive, report to distinguish (compare) between Azure and AWS in terms of:

1. Services provided, functions, storages, VMs, Security 2. As an IT Administrator, recommend one provider (Azure or AWS) and justify your choice

. Explain why?

Assessment submission

Your report must include a cover page that include the student’s name and student ID.

You must submit the design document as outlined above with a working Packet Tracer file

DO NOT ZIP THE SUBMISSION FILES.

For successful completion of this assessment, you require to study the material provided (lecture slides, tutorials, and reading materials), engage in the unit’s activities, and in the discussion forums. The prescribed textbook is the main reference along with the recommended reading material. Students are expected to discuss their work with lecturer and to seek support. In completing this assessment successfully, you will be able to effectively to write and communicate project scope and schedule plan, which will help in achieving ULO-3, ULO-4 and ULO-5, this will enable you to achieve CLO-1, CLO-4, CLO-6, CLO-7 and CLO-8 and all collectively with other unit learning outcomes will help in achieving GA2, GA9 and GA12.