The Education Community Services Group (ECSG) has several problems in network availability that cause outages and poor system performance. These issues have made it
difficult to provide reliable educational services during peak periods, causing it to lose students to its competitors. An information technology (IT) network administration
evaluation has to be conducted and analyzed to evaluate the nature of business and the need for a reliable network administration architecture, specifically for ECSG. Without
factfinding
and statistics, simply purchasing a commercially available network administration architecture will not help.
Organization and Project Selection
The first step will be to select an organization as the target for your Network Administration Processes and Procedure Guide. This organization can be real or hypothetical,
and it will be used as the basis for each of the assignments throughout the course. It should conform to the following guidelines:
Nontrivial: The selected organization should be large and should contain a network infrastructure that requires the implementation of network administration
processes and procedures.
Domain knowledge: You should be familiar enough with the organization and typical network administration needs without significant time required for network
administration research and education.
Accessibility: You should have good access to network administration officers and management in the organization.
Select an organization that meets these requirements, and submit your proposal to your instructor before proceeding further with the assignments in the course. Approval
should be sought within the first several days of the course. Your instructor will tell you how to submit this proposal and what notification will be given for project approval.
Key Assignment Overview
For the assignments in this course, you will be developing a Network Administration Procedures and Processes Guide that documents and analyzes the network
administration architecture for the scenario organization of your choosing. Your first task in this process will be to create the document shell for the final project deliverable
that you will be working on during each unit. As you proceed through each project phase, you will add content to each section of the final document to gradually complete the
final project delivery. Appropriate research should be conducted to support the development of your document, and assumptions may be made when necessary. The overall
Network Administration Procedures and Processes Guide will consist of the following deliverables:
Week 1: Project Outline
Week 1: Architecture Evaluation
Week 2: Network Administration Processes Evaluation
Week 3: Network Administration Procedures Evaluation
Week 4: Best Practices Evaluation
Week 5: Network Administration Procedures and Processes Guide
Assignment Details: Week 1
Submit your project proposal to your instructor for approval.
The following is the project outline for the complete deliverable:
Network Administration Processes and Procedure Document shell
Use Word
Title Page
Course number and name
Project name
Your name
Date
Table of Contents (TOC)
Use an autogenerated TOC.
This should be on a separate page.
This should be a maximum of 3 levels deep.
Be sure to update the fields of the TOC so that it is uptodate
before submitting your project.
Section Headings (create each heading on a new page with “TBD” as content, except for sections listed under “New Content” below)
Project Outline
Architecture Evaluation
Network Administration Processes
Network Administration Procedures
Best Practices Evaluation
New Content
Project Outline
Provide a brief description of the organization (real or hypothetical) that will be used as the basis for the projects in the course.
Include the company’s size, location(s), and other pertinent information.
Architecture Evaluation
Appraise the current major systems and architecture of the chosen organization.
Provide an overview of the network administration architecture that is suitable for a nontechnical audience. The overview must identify the key
areas of the organization that can benefit from the application of a network administration analysis.
Compare and contrast at least 2 architectural models that might be suitable for your selected organization.
Select 1 of the architectural models reviewed in the previous step as the preferred model, and justify your selection.
Be sure that this project is approved by the instructor.
Name the document “yourname_IT642PBL_IP1.doc.”
Worked Example
Please refer to the worked example that follows for an example of this assignment based on the problembased
learning scenario. The worked example is not intended to be
a complete example of the assignment, but it will illustrate the basic concepts that are required for the completion of the assignment, and it can be used as a general
guideline for your own project. Your assignment submission should be more detailed and specific and should reflect your own approach to the assignment rather than just
following the same outline provided in the worked example.
The worked example is provided here to help with this assignment.
