Assessment 1

Purpose of the assessment

The purpose of this assignment is to develop skills in critical thinking and understanding of Networked Applications Management (NAM). This assignment will provide scope to explore and learn working mechanisms of cutting-edge tools and technologies in regards to NAM. Student will develop the skills of critically understanding the underlying possible details of a chosen topic, and these skills are to make them conversant with possible NAM related practice and processes to apply their learning and understanding to problems. The assignment will also require attention to relate networked application protocols with the underlying networked infrastructure with a view to managing networked applications. This assignment will provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate the evolutionary knowledge and skills towards understanding the domain of cutting edge distributed systems.

Assignment Description

The purpose of this assignment is to develop skills in critical thinking and understanding of Networked Applications Management (NAM). This assignment will provide scope to explore and learn working mechanisms of cutting-edge tools and technologies in regards to NAM. Student will develop the skills of critically understanding the underlying possible details of a chosen topic, and these skills are to make them conversant with possible NAM related practice and processes to apply their learning and understanding to problems. The assignment will also require attention to relate networked application protocols with the underlying networked infrastructure with a view to managing networked applications. This assignment will provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate the evolutionary knowledge and skills towards understanding the domain of cutting edge distributed systems.

A group will select a topic to explore its designated areas as presented in the following table. If a group of two students can collaborate on the areas of a topic, there must have clear descriptions of individual contribution and collaborative contribution.

List of Topic

Topic Area to be explored

Virtualization With respect to (wrt) VmWare - Explore Virtualisation, Virtual Machines, and Architecture of Virtual Machines along with protocols, techniques, and frameworks for Networked Application Management (NAM).

2 Server Virtualization Explore Server Virtualization and its relevant middleware, and corresponding protocols for NAM. How does Server Virtualization benefit IT services over Non-Server-Virtualization?

3 Platform Virtualization Explore Platform Virtualization and its relevant middleware, and corresponding protocols for NAM. How does Platform Virtualization benefit IT services over Non- Platform -Virtualization?

4 Desktop Virtualization Explore Desktop Virtualization and its relevant middleware, and corresponding protocols for NAM. How does Desktop Virtualization benefit IT services over Non- Desktop -Virtualization?

Assessment 2

Demonstration of a network security tool

Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping)

a) Implement security policies to manage operational security, and then administer those policies toensure compliance by users in an organization

b) Demonstrate clear understanding of threats and risks and argue the pros and cons of commoncountermeasures

c) Apply skills to analyse complex problems in network security under supervisionAssignment Description

Overview of the assessment:

In this assignment, you will first investigate the literature of Asymmetric Cryptography and then you need to relate your work in Assignment 1 and write a report on it.

2 Description of the assessment:
The assignment consists of three steps - i) Writing a literature on Asymmetric Cryptography ii) Relate your assignment 1 with literature and iii) Write a report on the project that you have demonstrated in Assignment 1.

2.1 Literature Survey
In the first step, you need to write a literature on asymmetric cryptography. Your literature should be supported by 3-4 research articles.

2.2 Relate Assignment 1
In this step, you need to relate your task that you have demonstrated in assignment 1, with the literature investigated in previous step.

2.3 Report on Task
In this step, you will write a report on the task that you have used for assignment 1 demonstration.

Assignment file:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1swlvla27pja72l/Materials_T32016.zip?dl=0