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NTC320 Network Design Associate

Week 1 Assignment

West Consulting Customer Design Summary

Includes: Microsoft Visio Physical Diagram (Fully Editable!)

Includes: Microsoft Visio Logical Diagram (Fully Editable!)

Includes: Design Summary

You work as a network consultant for West Consulting, a graphic design and printing company.

West Consulting is growing in customer and sales volume and therefore, is expanding its local campus in Houston, Texas and adding a test location in China.

You are tasked with designing a network to support their growth and expansion plan and drafting a proposal. You will work on this project over the next five weeks. The first task is to confirm your understanding of the project and outline your high-level plan to approach the design.

Refer to the West Consulting Network Design Summary document; which lists the network requirements and configuration details.

Create a Customer Design Summary that includes the following:

    • Project Summary

    • A description of the organization, the business environment, and the project purpose

    • Design Requirements

    • Desired functional network requirements, any technical constraints, and network performance or design goals

    • Existing High-Level Network Infrastructure Survey

    • Include logical topology diagrams (layer 3) and physical network diagrams of current infrastructure and routing

    • Implementation Plan

    • Description of a high-level network upgrade plan based on Cisco’s network design lifecycle principles and an explanation of how your plan addresses West Consulting’s goals and strategies

Diagram your current network survey in Microsoft Visio.

Document the remainder of your Customer Design Summary as either a:

• A 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document

• A 10-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with detailed speaker notes

Note: You will complete assignments related to this project throughout this course. The assignments build on one another. Therefore, it is recommended that you select the delivery method of a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation or a Microsoft Word document you will want to use throughout these assignments. Also, You will use this completed assignment in the Week Two Individual Assignment titled, “West Consulting Modular Design Proposal.”

Submit your documents to the Assignments Files tab.

Supporting Activity: OSI Layers

Includes: Microsoft Visio Diagram illustrating OSI Layers!

Using Microsoft Visio, diagram how communication among the seven OSI layers is accomplished when a text is sent from your home to your advisor at the University of Phoenix.

 

 NTC320 Network Design Associate

Week 2 Assignment

Individual: West Consulting Modular Design Proposal

Includes Microsoft Visio Diagram (not editable)

To continue the network design to support the growth and expansion plan of West Consulting this week, you will create a modular design diagram and proposal summary.

Reference the West Consulting Network Design Summary document and your completed Week One Individual Assignment titled, “West Consulting Customer Design Summary” when completing this task.

Create a Modular Design Proposal that includes the following:

    • A diagram of your proposed hierarchical enterprise network that illustrates the relationships between the access, distribution, and core layers using the implementation plan created in your Week One Individual Assignment titled, “West Consulting Customer Design Summary.”

    • A summary that details the following: • The Cisco® design principles and approach you will use to support this project and its diverse requirements

    • The steps the you will take to ensure the project plan and network design address West Consulting’s long-term strategic plans and goals

   • Areas of specific concern related to the nature of the graphics data (traffic types, bandwidth, etc.) and relevant industry best practices you will follow to incorporate in addressing these potential concerns

    • A summary of how your design meets modularity, resiliency, and scalability for future growth

Diagram your enterprise network design in Microsoft® Visio®.

Document the remainder of your Design Proposal as either a:

    • A 2-page Microsoft® Word document

    • An 8-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes

Note: You will use this completed assignment in the Week Three Individual Assignment titled, “West Consulting IP Addressing Schema.”

 

NTC320 Network Design Associate

Week 3 Assignment

West Consulting IP Addressing Schema

To support the growth expansion plan and proposal of West Consulting, this week you will create the IP Addressing Schema.

Refer to the West Consulting Network Design Summary document and previous individual assignments to complete this week’s assignment.

Create recommendations for both IPv4 and IPv6 schemas at the China location.

Include the following:

    • An IPv4 table that includes the Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation, subnets, and number of hosts used at each site/subnet

    • An IPv6 scheme to integrate the two sites

    • Selected IP routing protocol(s) and your rationale for either maintaining or changing West Consulting’s current protocol

    • Summary of how your routing protocol recommendations address network convergence and maximize performance

Document your recommendation as either of the following:

    • A 1- to 2-page Microsoft® Word document

    • A 6- to 8-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes

Note: You will use this completed assignment in the Week Four Individual Assignment titled, “West Consulting Data Center Design.”

Submit your assignment to the Assignments Files tab.

 

NTC320 Network Design Associate

Week 4 Assignment

West Consulting Data Center Design

Includes: Microsoft Visio Diagram (not editable)

To continue the support of the growth expansion plan and proposal for West Consulting, this week you will develop the data center design and security plan.

Design an enterprise data center solution that expands the campus LAN network, which has reached its capacity.

The design must include the following:

• A logically separated WLAN infrastructure that can be integrated into the existing enterprise network

• Data flows between segments of the enterprise network – public (outside), DMZ, private, and data center

Incorporate feedback you received from your instructor on the diagram from the Week Two Individual Assignment, “West Consulting Modular Design Proposal.” Use this revised diagram, and the information from all previous assignments, as the basis for this diagram.

Create a high-level network security policy that identifies key network security measures.

Include the following components:

    • List of network assets and their use(s)

    • Potential threats and vulnerabilities in which assets need to be protected from including; open ports, malware, viruses, and specific types of attacks

    • Detailed security methods you will use to protect these assets and how they will be implemented

    • A high-level incident handling process for two of the network attacks you identified, including whom to contact (by role), what should happen to the asset, and how toprotect data Diagram your data center design in Microsoft® Visio®.

Document your security policy as either:

• A 2- to 3- page Microsoft® Word document

• A Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet, properly formatted for easy reading and reference

Note: You will use this completed assignment in the Week Five Individual Assignment titled, “West Consulting Voice and Video Network Design and Final Proposal.”

Submit your assignment to the Assignments Files tab.

 

NTC320 Network Design Associate

Week 5 Assignment

Reding Health Group Enterprise Design Summary

Instructions:

This week, you and your team will design the voice and video network and compile your full enterprise design for submission.

Create a Microsoft® Visio® diagram illustrating the integration of the voice and video network components into the full enterprise network design.

Note: Use your WLAN and Data Center Design from the Week 4 Learning Team Assignment with incorporated instructor feedback.

Compile the results of the Learning Team Reding Health Group assignments from Weeks Two, Three, and Four and create a final enterprise network design proposal that includes the following:

    • The full enterprise network design, including:

    • A campus LAN design for the headquarter location that includes the physical and logical network design for each building

    • VLANs for each department

    • Datacenter design

    • A branch office network design for each location

    • An Enterprise WLAN design for each branch office

    • An Enterprise WAN design that demonstrates medium connectivity between each site

    • An Enterprise collaboration network for voice and video

    • Remote and seamless Internet connectivity

    • Proposal Recommendation:

    • An Executive Summary stating the purpose of the project and identifying key components of the proposed design

    • A short description of each network module

Create your proposal narrative as either:

• A 3-page Microsoft® Word document

• A 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker’s notes

Compress the proposal and design diagram files into a ZIP folder.

Submit the ZIP file to the Assignment Files tab.

 

NTC320 Network Design Associate

Week 5 Assignment

West Consulting Voice and Video Network Design and Final Proposal

Resources:

• West Consulting Network Design Summary

• Week One Individual Assignment, “West Consulting Customer Design Summary”

• Week Two Individual Assignment, “West Consulting Modular Design Proposal”

• Week Three Individual Assignment, “West Consulting IP Addressing Schema”

• Week Four Individual Assignment, “Data Center Design”

To complete your final expansion plan and proposal for West Consulting, this week you will develop the voice and video network design and compile the efforts of your previous assignments to create a comprehensive proposal.

Incorporate feedback you received from your instructor on the diagram from the Week Four Individual Assignment, “West Consulting Data Center Design.” Use this revised diagram, and the information from all previous assignments, as the basis for remainder of this assignment.

Design a voice and video network that meets West Consulting’s needs, including annotations that highlight how traffic concerns will be addressed.

Diagram your voice and video network design in Microsoft® Visio®.

Create a final network growth and expansion proposal that includes the following:

    • An Executive Summary of the proposal

    • A summary of the project purpose, including:

    • West Consulting’s business needs

    • West Consulting’s current network status

    • West Consulting’s desired or needed network status

    • Constraints or issues to be considered in your design

    • Completed network design proposal that includes the following:

    • Campus LAN

    • Enterprise WAN

    • IP Addressing Schema

    • Data Centers

    • WLAN Security

    • Voice and Video Integration

    • Summary of network security concerns and plans

    • A recommendation to virtualize two network components in your design, including the benefits of virtualizing the two components

    • A summary of requirements to ensure the implemented design is effective

    • A summary of risks and suggested controls to ensure the network is implemented  effectively and optimized for future growth Create the narrative portions of the proposal as a 6- to 7-page Microsoft® Word document.

Compress your diagrams and proposal narrative into a ZIP folder.

Submit the ZIP file to the Assignment Files tab.