1 | P a g e SBM4104 Major Assignment Propose and Present an IT Infrastructure Solution for a Small Educational Organization Presentations Date due: Week 12 Week 10 Value: 30% Rationale Practical exercises assess students’ ability to apply theoretical learning to practical, real world situations. In this assessment students must form project groups of 3 to 4 students. Each group must design & configure an IT infrastructure solution for a small organisation. Groups will present their solution during tutorial sessions commencing in week 10. Practical group exercise and presentation The presentation should:  Identify the organization needs for the IT infrastructure and identify key features and functionality of the IT infrastructure.  Demonstrate building-block approach steps to the network design for the organization.  Include a demonstration showing how the network are configured and simulated to achieve organization need.  Identify and discuss any implementation or operational issues. Presentations should last between 10 to 15 minutes with each group member playing a designated role. A hard copy report of approximately 2500 must be provided to support the presentation. The report should include reference to the roles and contributions of each member of the group. The report must satisfy the following specific criteria: 2 | P a g e 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 discuss IT Infrastructure models, propose a Request For Proposal (RFP) document. Case Study Suppose you are recently hired as an IT infrastructure expert at an Educational Organisation named Middle East College (MEC). The MEC is a small size organisation with 5,000 students. It has two separate departments (Business and Accounting). The business department building consists of two levels with 2000 students, 20 staff members. The account department building consists of three levels with 3000 students, 25 staff members. In addition, there are another 100 staff member who work in various administration, library, maintenance, student registration. The MEC must provide an online learning system that allows students to access teaching materials via the internet. In addition, the college needs to use a website www.mec.edu.au for advertisement and provide general information related to the college and programs. The staff member and students must use college email for formal communication. Each department needs to be supported with three computer labs each with 25 desktop computers that allows the student to access internet and college learning system. In addition, each department must provide wireless network that allows students to use their laptops or mobile devices to access college network. Task Specifications Prepare a report to propose a network design for the MEC. Use the buildingblock approach to design the network for the MEC. Your design should consider the followings: 3 | P a g e 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 of hierarchical internetworking model. The design should include the set of required 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 the access layer for one department only. 5. Develop a Request For Proposal (RFP), specifying equipment, software, and services are required. You have to make some assumptions with the required justifications for your design. 4 | P a g e Marking Scheme for Assessment Task 2 (30% total) (A) Student ID: __________ ____________ Name: ___________ (B) Student ID: __________ ____________ Name: ___________ (C) Student ID: __________ ____________ Name: ___________ (C) Student ID: __________ ____________ Name: ___________ The Report (Propose IT Infrastructure Solution) 20% Where appropriate the report should have separate sections dedicated to the items listed below. Report has a title page, executive/management summary, table of contents /3 General Logical Network Design for the MEC buildings. /2 Detail hierarchical internetworking model. /3 Servers and service identifications with justification /2 IP address and subnet mask assignments /2 Simulation of the access layer using packet tracer /2 RFP, specifying equipment, software, and services required. /3 Text in the report is word-processed, spell-AND grammar checked! /2 Reference Section /1 /20 Total 5 | P a g e Presentation: 10% Only one group presentation grade will be awarded to all group members, as follows: SBM4104 IT Infrastructure Semester 1, 2017 (Group presentation) Worth 10% Marking Guide Group Name: ___________________ Group member’s name Student ID 1 2 3 4 Assessment Criteria HD Excellent D Very Good C Good P Satisfactory F Poor Marks obtained The presence of an appropriate introduction to the organisation (0. 5) Space for comments: The identification and description of a suitable requirements for network design (1.00) Effective use of material from subject topics in the logical design (2.00) Depth Hierarchical internetworking model (2.00) Demonstrate the assignment of IP addresses/ masks (1.5) Demonstrate network simulation (1.00) Effective presentation of material (0.5) Utilization of question/discussion time (1.00) Time management (0.5) 6 | P a g e [20-25 Minutes] TOTAL MARKS: 10 Marks obtained: Comments: Lecturer: Location: Date: Total /30 /100