Assignment 3 – report
(System and Network Administration, UG/PG, S2, 2021)
Please carefully read the whole assignment description and the required background documents before you start your work.
Assignment 3 – report weighs 19% of the total marks of this unit and is due on 22/10/2021, Friday, Week 12, at 23:55pm the latest. The deadline is of the local time in Canberra, ACT, Australia. It is your responsibility to correctly adjust your clock.
Submissions are through Canvas. It is the responsibility of the student to manage the accessibility to the Internet. Not being able to access to the Internet at the time of the submission is not an excuse for extension.
No other forms of submission will be accepted.
Please be reminded the following statements from the unit outline about assignment submission.
Extensions
Students can apply for an extension to the submission due date for an assessment item through extenuating, evidenced circumstances (specific details are found through the Assessment Policy and Procedures. Section 9.12). Extensions must be applied for before the due date. Documentary evidence (e.g. medical certificate) will be expected for an extension to be granted, however this will not guarantee that the application will be successful. The Unit Convener or relevant Discipline Convener will decide whether to grant an extension and the length of the extension.
An Assignment Extension form is available from the Student Forms page.
Late submission of assignments without an approved extension will result in a penalty of 5% reduced marks from the total available, per calendar day late. An assignment submitted over 7 days late will not be accepted.
The report is of up to 3 pages in A4 size, size 10 Arial font, portrait orientation, and narrow margins, if you use Microsoft Word or similar settings if you use other editing software. You can include any extra supporting materials in the appendixes, in addition to the required. Appendixes do not count toward the limit.
At the beginning of Page 1, please include the assignment title, your group number, all student numbers of the members in your group, and the date of completion. Please do not include the names, and please make sure that the group number and the student numbers are correct.
Proper writing is expected. Your writing should be meaningful, concise, and self-contained. After reading your report, one with reasonable knowledge and experiences in the fields should have the basic understanding without referring to the other sources. A full report with just a collection of only key words or phrases will not attract any mark.
Your own writing in your report, including the supporting materials, should account for at least 70% of the content. The materials from any other sources should be properly quoted and referenced. If you do quote from other sources, the reference section does not count towards the 2-pages limit.
The marking rubrics is in Page 3.
Failing to comply with the format requirements will result in the reduction of the marked assignment marks by 10%.
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Note: This is a group assignment. The same marks for each group member. Please keep all parts and all sections in a single file. Only 1 submission from by a group member is needed.
In this report, you will summarise your experience in setting up the network part of the IT infrastructure for your organisation. Your report comes with 2 parts: the report (within 3 A4 pages) and the appendixes (no page limit). Some of the content in the report can be scaffolded to the later assignments.
The network part of the IT infrastructure for your organisation will be implemented on cisco routers and switches. Each organisation has 1 Cisco RV340 Routers, 2 Cisco Catalyst 3560-CX Series Switches, and the required cables. The cisco routers and switches are in 6B14.
Your group is required:
1. Please set up at least 2 VLANs on the switch(es), 1 VLAN for the server computers and 1 VLAN for
the desktop computers. You can set up the VLANs in the same switch or in 2 different switches. You
are encouraged to set up more VLANs.
2. Please set up the router to connect the 2 VLANs and route traffic between them.
3. Please set up the router to connect and communicate with the router of another organisation’s. You
will have to work with another group to test.
4. Please plan and implement intranet and internet tests. For intranet tests (within the same
organisation), a possible test is to visit the web pages from a web server on a VLAN by a desktop computer on another VLAN. For inter-net (not to be confused with the word “Internet” of its the common sense meaning) tests, a possible choice is to visit the web pages of another organisation’s via FQDN of the web site.
5. Please set up at least a network-based security measure, for example, a firewall on the router, vulnerability scanning (pentest), and intrusion detection etc.
6. All hosts must be able to communicate with each other via IP addresses, hostnames, and FQDNs (fully qualified domain names).
Part 1, report; please note without the proper support from the appendixes, no marks will be awarded: [8 marks] – section 1
A summary on the network architecture of your organisation, with a network diagram. Please explain your VLANs and the connection of the VLANs. Please report against the requirements above.
[4 marks] – section 2
Please reflect on the planning, implementation, testing, and the revisions to the network architectures in the original infrastructure designs of your group members.
[7 marks] – section 3
Please research and report the effectiveness and the efficiency of your security measure. Please note that merely state the security measure you have implemented is not enough.
Part 2, appendixes:
Although no marks are awarded to the appendixes. Without the proper backup from the appendixes, no marks will be awarded to the report. It is the collective responsibility of the group members’ to make sure that each member shares his/her fair amount of work. Each group member should have at least 1 appendix covering the following sections.
1. The student number of the producer of the appendix.
2. The set-up logs and the testing logs. Screen dumps can be included.
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the marking rubrics for the report
A/Prof Wanli Ma, School of ITS, SciTech, University of Canberra, 2021, S2
85%-100% 75%-84% 65%-74% 50%-64% <50% 0%
Please note that a report is marked in its entirety based on the marking rubrics also in their entirety. A report cannot be marked by its individual keywords in isolation; nor can any individual marking rubric be applied in isolation by itself alone. For example, the irrelevant content in the report cannot be treated as if it does not exist. To the contrary, any irrelevant content weakens the logic flow and reduces the relevance of the report.
• all required topics covered
• comprehensive understanding of the topics covered
• thoroughly coherent
• relevant and accurate with
in-depth analysis
• convincible, sound, and smooth logic
• excellent writing, concise, clear, and complete
• all claims backed up by evidence or argument
• no irrelevant nor inaccurate statements
• all required topics covered
• good understanding of the
topics covered
• well coherent
• relevant and accurate
• sound logic
• clear writing, concise, and complete
• majority claims backed up by evidence or argument
• no irrelevant nor inaccurate statements
• most required topics covered
• reasonable understanding of the topics covered
• coherent
• largely relevant and
accurate
• good logic
• generally clear writing, reasonably concise, and mostly complete
• most claims backed up by evidence or argument
• occasionally irrelevant and inaccurate statements with little impact on the report in a whole
• most required topics covered
• basic understanding of the topics covered
• reasonably coherent
• relevant and accurate in
general
• basic logic
• understandable writing, somewhat clear, and largely complete
• claims largely backed up by evidence or argument
• a few irrelevant and inaccurate statements with noticeable impact on the report in a whole
little or no understanding of the topic, with irrelevant content, unstructured and unclear writing
just a few keywords without meaningful sentences
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