QAC020N253A Network Design and Troubleshooting Assignment

QA BSc Computing Technologies Coursework - University of Roehampton London, UK

Individual Written Report: Case Study Analysis

Module Learning Outcomes Students who successfully complete this module will be able to:

1. Identify, analyse and communicate principles and processes of Network Design.

2. Critically analyse and evaluate business and technical requirements.

3. Plan and design a Network Infrastructure (LAN/WAN/MAN).

4. Design and evaluate a management and implementation strategy for a network.

5. Collect and synthesise information to inform a choice of vendor solutions, with the module assignment providing a good opportunity to test this area.

6. Evaluate a range of information comparing alternative methods and techniques used in Network Design.

7. Be able to troubleshoot and maintain integrated, complex networks.

Learning outcomes assessed within this piece of work as agreed at the programme level meeting This assignment will assess the following learning outcomes:

1. Demonstrate a broad understanding of the knowledge base of this module, and its terminology and discourse

2. Evaluate network devices to be used for a particular area in the network in relation to requirement

3. Design and implement a fully functional network infrastructure based on requirement given in the assignment brief

4. Demonstrate autonomous learning context and draw on prior experiences reflecting and evaluating on new leaning outcome.

Assignment Task -

This is an individual assignment based on the case study scenario presented below. This assignment will assess your understanding of the principles of network design and the ability to analyse, design and create a network infrastructure fully configured and tested which reflects understanding of network design and troubleshooting.

Scenario - You are working as a network engineer in an IT company. You have been assigned to design and implement a network infrastructure for a small college called Tek-learn.co.uk. The college consists of 3 departments Human Resource, Finance, Academics. The college also includes a library and computer LAB. Each department must not be able to access any other department.

The network consists of four Servers; web, email, dns, and common file server. All servers are shared between all users. The distribution of workstations, as shown in table 1, describes the requirement of each department. The college administration team decided to provide a wireless network to be used by any student/staff using their own wireless device such as smartphone to access the internet.

The IT director emphasised scalability, availability and hence you are required to provide a complete network infrastructure design and implementation. The company will be using private IP address 71.81.91.0/24 within LAN, the company network availability, Scalability and security are very important. The wireless network IP address is 10.11.0.0/16

Task -

Analyse the requirements of this scenario evaluating suitable network model and components to design a network infrastructure featuring scalability, availability and security.

Based on your analysis, you are required to apply the appropriate configuration for the selected technologies. Also, discuss, evaluate and apply the necessary network monitoring tools and produce a suitable test and documentation for network maintenance

All relevant network configuration, network diagram and device configuration tables, network simulation files must be included.

Attachment:- Network Design and Troubleshooting Assignment File.rar