Imagine that you have been employed by XYZ Corporation as a junior network
administrator. As part of your duty, you are requested to configure and manage a network
lab to perform tests on before they are deployed to the real network. The network lab
imitates a typical enterprise network with the Headquarter and two branches connected
over the Internet. The high-level logical topology of the network is given in Figure 1 and
the physical layout of the offices is given in Figure 2.
To study the network before the actual deployment, you will use a network simulator to
complete the following tasks:
• Task 1: Network simulation. In this task, you will create the network in a simulator
from its logical topology and perform all necessary configurations for the network
devices to make the network operational. Verify the network connectivity.
• Task 2: Configuration management. In this task, you will document the network
configurations following the network configuration management practice.