SBM4104 IT Infrastructure

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.

Assume you are working as an IT professional at the IT department for ABC company, you have been assign the task of analysing the current network design and propose new network configuration for the network shown in Figure 1.

For the network diagram in Figure 1:

• NET-A: 10.10.1XY.0/24
• NET-B: 172.16.1XY.0/24
• NET-C: 192.168.1XY.0/24 where X, and Y are the last two digits of the student ID of one of the group members.

[For example, if the student ID is 201701234 then XY=34 and NET-A: 10.10.134.0/24, NET-B: 172.16.134.0/24 and NET-C: 192.168.134.0/24]

Task Specifications

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

In this task you will fill the required information using the IP network diagram: (27 Marks)

1. NET-A (8 marks):

Network/Subnet _____________

Network address_______________ Broadcast address__________

Valid host range______________

1. NET-B (8 marks):

Network/Subnet _____________

Network address___________ Broadcast address____

Valid host range______

1. NET-C (8 marks):

Network/Subnet ________

Network address_______ Broadcast address_____________

Valid host range_______________

1. RA - RB subnet (1 mark) _______
2. RB - RC subnet (1 Mark) _______
3. Net A subnet mask (1 mark) ___________

Fill the following table with the corresponding IP addresses. (12 Marks)

Configure router RA interfaces: (12 Marks)

RA(config)#:int F0/0_______________

RA(config-if)#:______ RA(config-if)#:___________

RA(config)#:int S0/0/0_____________

RA(config-if)#:______

RA(config-if)#:______

Configure Routing Protocol

1. Provide commands to enable any routing protocol (student’s choice) in RA? (8 Marks)

RA(config)#:_________

RA(config-router)#:______

RA(config-router)#:______

RA(config-router)#:______

2. Provide commands to enable routing protocol in RB (same protocol configured in RA)? (8 Marks)

RB(config)#:______

RB(config-router)#:______

RB(config-router)#:______

RB(config-router)#:______

3. Provide commands to enable routing protocol in RC (same protocol configured in RA)? (8 Marks)

RC(config)#:______

RC(config-router)#:______ RC(config-router)#:______

RC(config-router)#:______

Task-B: (25 marks)

Assume the IT department of the ABC company wants to adapted virtualization and Cloud computed for hosting some of the organization application servers. Discuss the followings:

1. Propose two organizations that provides Cloud services for hosting the email and web servers for the organization. Justify your answer by explaining the level of services each company provides that suit the organization requirements.
2. Demonstrate how the Cloud computing can support the dynamic scaling of the selected organization applications.

Please note you have to use Harvard reference style and the report should be submitted as a Word file.

Assessment submission

Your report must include a cover page that include the student name and student ID. You have to submit the word file of your report to APIC online learning system by the due date. Your submission must include your answers for Task-A and Task-B.

Marking Criteria and Rubric: The assessment will be marked out of 100 and will be weighted 30% of the total unit mark