Project 1
You are the senior network architect for a large corporation. The company has offices in L.A., New York, and Miami. The company has been experiencing tremendous growth over the last year, and as a result, management has decided to hire temporary workers to fulfill the customer service duties. You must ensure that a logical design is in place that relegates access to other areas of the network and improves performance. You planned on using VLANs and firewalls to accomplish this deployment requirement. Your boss wants to see a report of your planned approach so that she can make that presentation to upper management.
In a 2-3 page document, explain the following to your boss:
•What is a VLAN?
•What is a firewall?
•How does a VLAN and firewall combination assist you in achieving the desired goal?
•What additional benefits can be achieved from implementing VLANs?
Use a diagram as an aid in explaining the deployment of the combined technologies.
2-3 page report and a diagram
Project 2
You work for a University that has over 3500 students on campus. The you supports about 600 staff and faculty that are also supported on the same network. The university presently uses an analog phone system and the administration is looking to deploy voice over IP solution. Before they move forward, they want to ensure that the environment can support the technology. Your manager has assigned you and two other engineers to do some do an assessment of the network and based on the assessment results. Recommend an appropriate solution to support VoIP in the network.
Create a 2-3 page report that includes the following:
•Switch assessment and requirement
•QoS requirement if needed and why
•POE requirements and support
•Appropriate network subnet design
Description how traffic will be handled based on your design proposal
Project 3
You are the network manager for a local university. Every year, you are audited to ensure that you are meeting with SOX compliance. In the environment, you support more than 5,000 user accounts in the network over 100 servers and more than 1,000 workstations. The environment supports e-mail servers, database services, and many Web-based applications.
Based on the services that are running in your environment, create a report of 2 -3 pages that includes the following:
•Research and discuss steps than can be taken to complete an assessment ahead of your SOX audit.
•Research and identify a solution that could be leveraged to automate the audit process of one or more applications.
Based on your report, create 4-6 PowerPoint slides that summarize the following:
•Your audit utility solution
Also, submit a 2-3 page report