Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines

Unit Code
MN621

Unit Title
Advanced Network Design

Assessment Type
Individual written report and group demonstration – T1 2019

Assessment Title
Local Area Network Design and Setup

Purpose of the assessment (with

ULO Mapping)

Main objectives of this assignment is to enable student to understand networking devices, gather requirements for a given business case study, plan a network design and setup LAN appropriately using physical networking devices. After successful completion of this assignment, students should be able to:

a.       Investigate suitable network designs to match requirements.

b.       Create appropriate frameworks and standards for network implementation

 

Weight
15% of the total assessments

Total Marks
60

Word limit
2500

Due Date
  Week 8, demonstrate during laboratory class (in groups not more than two students) and submit report on Moodle(individual report) by the end of week 8.

Submission Guidelines
•     All work must be submitted on Moodle by the due date along with a completed Assignment Cover Page.

•     The assignment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 11-pt Calibri (Body) font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings.

•     Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using IEEE referencing style.

Extension
 If an extension of time to submit work is required, a Special Consideration Application must be submitted directly on AMS.  You must submit this application within three working days of the assessment due date. Further information is available at:

http://www.mit.edu.au/about–mit/institute–publications/policies–proceduresand–guidelines/specialconsiderationdeferment  

Academic

Misconduct  

 

 Academic Misconduct is a serious offence. Depending on the seriousness of the case, penalties can vary from a written warning or zero marks to exclusion from the course or rescinding the degree. Students should make themselves familiar with the full policy and procedure available at: http://www.mit.edu.au/aboutmit/institute–publications/policies–procedures–and–guidelines/PlagiarismAcademic–Misconduct–Policy–Procedure. For further information, please refer to the Academic Integrity Section in your Unit Description.

 Prepared by:  Dr Imran Ali Jokhio         Moderated by: Dr Ammar Alazab                              , 2019

 Assignment Description

A case study: Local Area Network design and configuration

There is an organisation which is primarily e-commerce business. It is going through a major transformation because of its expansion. The expansion is due to merger of two smaller businesses to the organisation. Now, the organisation is moving to a new building having about 100 employees. The new building is of three floors. The ground floor is for reception, foyer and warehouse so there is a need of five data points at reception, four in warehouse and two in foyer. The 1st floor consists of five offices and forty open plan office cubicles. The 2nd floor consists of three rooms, each room have four office cubicles, two offices and thirty open plan cubicles. There is also a meeting room at 2nd floor that requires four data points. Each and every person needs two data points at their desk whether it’s an office, room cubicle or open plan cubicle.

This organisation needs a new LAN plan, design and implementation before they move to new facility.

Description

Design a local area network for the given case study.

 

Write a report on a Local Area Network design and configuration network plan and configurations having following sections:

 

Analyse the need for the network for above case study. Investigate and propose a suitable complete network design for the case study.
Create an appropriate framework and standards for the planned network. Write a detailed setup of network devices only for a LAN.
Write a detailed implementation report which includes configurations of each networking device which are included in the whole network.
Demonstrate and compare at least 2 configuration results which may include at least two switches/routers and two PCs on physical networking devices.  

Demonstration: Students can demonstrate in a group of 2. Students should be ready with all setup and configurations before start of the laboratory class. Tutor will ask 2-3 questions to each student to demonstrate any configuration of the setup. Demonstration from each student should not be more than 3 minutes.

 

Students should give their group members to tutor in week 8 during lab class. Students will get demonstration timetable before start of the week 8 lab class.

Marking criteria:  

Section to be included in the report
Description of the section
Marks

Project scope
Outline of the report ( in 3-4 sentences)
3

Project hardware

requirements

 

–          Name of the network device with manufacturer’s name, series, model and ports

–          Type of the cables

–          Name of the server, PC with specification such as operating system, RAM, hard disk etc.

 

5

Network Diagram
–     Network diagram is drawn and labelled
3

Network Design

Write justification of the network design
7

Network device configurations commands
Configuration commands to configure network
20

Network device configurations –

Demonstration on physical device

Demonstration of various features
20

Reference style
Follow IEEE reference style
2

Total
60

Marking Rubrics 

Grades
Excellent
Very Good
Good
Satisfactory
Unsatisfactory

Project scope /3
Concise and specific to the project
Topics are relevant and soundly analysed.
Generally relevant and analysed.
Some relevance and briefly presented.
This is not relevant to the assignment topic.

Project hardware

requirements

5

Demonstrated   excellent ability to think critically and sourced reference material appropriately
Demonstrated  excellent ability to think critically but did not source reference material appropriately
Demonstrate

d   ability to think critically and sourced reference material appropriately

Demonstrated   ability to think critically and did not source reference material appropriately
Did not demonstrate ability to think critically and did not source reference material appropriately

Network Design and diagram /10
Demonstrated   excellent ability to think critically and sourced reference material appropriately
Demonstrated  excellent ability to think critically but did not source reference material appropriately
Demonstrate

d   ability to think critically and sourced reference material appropriately

Demonstrated   ability to think critically and did not source reference material appropriately
Did not demonstrate ability to think critically and did not source reference material appropriately

Network device -Local Area Network design and configuration  

configurations – Switch configuration/

20

All elements are present and very well integrated.
Components present with good cohesive
Components present and mostly well integrated
Most components present
Proposal lacks structure.

Demonstratio n /20
Logic is clear and easy to follow with strong arguments
Consistency logical and convincing
Mostly consistent logical and convincing
Adequate cohesion and conviction
Argument is confused and disjointed

IEEE

Reference style/ 2

Clear styles with excellent source of references.
Clear referencing style
Generally good referencing style
Sometimes clear referencing style
Lacks consistency with many errors