Assignment 2: Proposal
Propose an IT Infrastructure Design Solution for iTech Company
Date due:
Type:
Week 10
Individual assignment
Weighting: 40%
Rationale Practical exercises assess students’ ability to apply theoretical learning to practical, real world
situations. This is Individual assignment that each student must design and configure an IT
infrastructure solution for a small organization.
A hard copy report of approximately 2500 must be provided to present your proposed ideas.
The report must satisfy the following specific criteria:
1. Demonstrate ability to plan, locate information using the Internet, organisations and
publications and analyse this information.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of IT Infrastructure and design a network using building-
block approach.
3. Simulate and configure network devices as one step towards network implementation
and testing.
4. Demonstrate the ability to determine cloud base services that suit enterprise
requirements.
Case Study A software development company, iTech has a 900-computer network. The company is
located in three adjacent five-story buildings in an office park, with about 300 computers in
each building. The LAN in each building are similar, but one building- data centre building
(DCB) has data centre on the second floor. The data centre provides web and email services
to the enterprise employee. In addition, it provides dynamic IP assign, share file and DNS
services. The domain name of the company is: www. iTech.org.au. The current network is
poorly designed for its current needs and must be completely replaced.
The head officer of the IT department wants to get two design proposal of the new network.
The first design considers the dedicated server techniques by hosting all the iTech servers
within its buildings. While the Cloud hosting to be considered in the second design.
Develop a logical design for the DCB of this enterprise campus. Your design must
demonstrate a detail logical design based on three-layers hierarchal model. The design should
include the set of required servers, network devices, and connection with justification and
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supported diagrams. You have to make some assumptions with the required justifications for
your design.
Task Specifications Prepare a report to propose a network design for the iTech company. Use the building-block
approach to design the network for the company. Your design proposal should consider the
followings:
I. Using dedicated server design
1. Developing logical network design that includes the geographical scope of the
network and a categorization of current and future network needs of the various
network segments, users, and applications.
2. Develop a detail logical design based on three-layers hierarchal model. The design
should include the set of required network devices and servers, with the justification.
3. Specify the IP addresses, subnet masks to the various networks and control the
process by which IP addresses are assigned to individual clients and servers.
4. Use network simulator (Cisco Packet Tracer) to simulate part of the DCB network.
The simulation scenario should include the access layer devices, web server, DHCP,
and DNS. Your scenario should demonstrate how the client computers dynamically
obtained IP network configuration including IP, DNS, and default gateway addresses.
In addition, you have to demonstrate how the client accessing the web server.
II. Using Cloud hosting design:
Propose two organizations that provides Cloud services for hosting the DCB servers.
Justify your answer by explaining the level of services each company provides that suit
the iTech requirements.
You have to make some assumptions with the required justifications for your design.
Report Layout The proposal report should be organised using the following headings and guidelines:
1. A Cover Title Page 2. Introduction
a. Should clearly define the aims and objectives of the project in the report b. Explain what contents will be covered in the report c. Organization description.
3. Discussion on IT infrastructure components required. 4. The three-layers hierarchal model
a. Introduction b. Analyse the current and future iTech IT Infrastructure requirements.
c. Geographical scope of the network.
d. Discussion on the possibility of scaling of the iTech network. 5. Dedicated server design proposal
a. Identify all the services and servers required.
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b. Propose logical design supported with diagrams and justification.
c. List of IP addresses and network mask for all the networks. 6. Cloud based design proposal
a. Identification of two cloud service organization with justification b. List of services the organization provides that suit the iTech network design
requirements.
7. Network simulation. a. Access layer diagram including web, DHCP, and DNS servers. b. DHCP configuration. c. DNS and web servers configurations. d. Demonstration and explanation how the clients dynamically obtain network
configuration and accessing web server with the domain: www. iTech.org.au.
8. Conclusions and Recommendations 9. References
SBM4104 IT Infrastructure
Semester 2, 2017
Worth 40%
Marking Guide
Student Name: ___________________ Student ID: ___________________
Assessment Criteria HD
Excellent
D
Very
Good
C
Good
P
Satisfactory
F
Poor
Marks
Obtained
Relevance to the topic (20%)
– Business/ organization description.
– Identify IT infrastructure components.
Critical analysis (20%)
– Analyse the current and future business/ organization
IT Infrastructure
requirements.
– Analyse and plan for applications scaling.
Proposal-design (20%)
– Identify all the services and servers required.
– Propose logical design supported with diagrams and
justification.
– Consider Cloud.
Extent of reading and
simulation (10%)
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– The proposed solution supported with a satisfactory
coverage of simulation
relevant to the tasks
requirements.
Logical structure (20%)
– The introduction is appropriate to the type and
format of response and
clearly outlines the focus.
– The body of the response is well structured, with
appropriate sections/
paragraphs.
– The conclusion is appropriate and
summarizing the key ideas.
Writing style/grammar and
Referencing (10%)
– There is no spelling or typing
errors.
– Key ideas from the literature are
effectively paraphrased and/or
quoted.
– In-text citations and direct
quotes follow referencing guide
rules (correct and complete)
– Reference list appropriately
compiled.
TOTAL MARKS: 100 Total Marks Obtained:
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